Islamophilia, the American Dream

Many Americans, liberals and conservatives alike, have been astonished by the upsurge of support for Islam in general and Hamas in particular among leftists and members of the LGBT& “community.”  “Don’t they know that Islam subjugates women, imposes severe penalties for all deviant behavior, and  is intolerant of sexual diversity?  Can they possibly fail to realize that they would be among the first victims lined up against the wall?”

It depends.  Clearly, the kids who are converting to Islam after reading—or at least claiming to have read—Osama bin Laden’s address to America are as clueless about Islam as they are about school, work, church, marriage, religion, philosophy, art, music, and the rules for any sport more complex than Frolf.  

Their Gen-X parents, almost but not quite as dumb as they are, have lived their own lives in a never-ending rebellion against human freedom and dignity, and, turning over their children to state-run or state-dominated institutions—daycare, school, college, the media, TV and Tik Tok—they have made sure that the kids would turn out to be goose-stepping robots.  

It is a waste of time to wonder what they are thinking—children, parents even grandparents—because they have never entertained for even a moment a single thought that was not implanted into their memory banks.

More interesting is the case of the academic leftists and their disciples.  Most of them are at least dimly aware of the severity of serious Islamic regimes, though they have, nonetheless, acquiesced in the American regime’s wars to overthrow less intolerant regimes in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Libya.  Do patriotic Christians ever ask themselves why their government always seem to target Arab governments that tolerate Christians?  Do they even care?

But leftists who have been to school—one hesitates to describe them as educated—know perfectly well that their enemy for the past three centuries has not been Islam but Christianity.  The revolutionary movement, which had its origins in the Renaissance and put forth its first noxious fruits in the French Revolution, has always been primarily devoted to the destruction of Christianity.  Écrasez l’infame, whined Voltaire, Écrasez le consubtantiel. 

In the narrow confines of their little minds, they are firmly convinced that once they have eliminated Christ, they will be able to deal with the lesser, if more violent evil that is Islam.  It is a bit similar to the political pattern you can see in places like Medieval Tuscany, where Lucca allied with Florence to oppose their neighbor Pisa, or in the longstanding Italian political phenomenon known as “transversalism,” which encouraged the far left and the far right to unite against the liberal center.  

So, don’t waste time and energy wondering why leftists do what leftists do, much less why they "think" what they say they think..  The academics, who have learned only theoretical abstractions in their academic sweatshops, are no more independent-minded than the kids taking the latest Tik Tok Challenge:  How long will it take a Lesbian convert to be jailed and raped, when he/she/it moves to Saudi Arabia or Pakistan?  The point on which they all agree is that Christianity is evil and, as Hilary Clinton has so accurately expressed it, the election of a conservative Republican—whether Trump or De Santis would spell the end of America as we know it.  Magari, as they say in Italian, if only!