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Not how many, but where

Oct 28, 2014 11:32 am By Robert Spencer

ZehafBibeauNot how many, but where
by Michael Devolin

“The Lacedemonians do not inquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.” — Agis

Our country, Canada, has just endured two separate attacks by Muslim terrorists. Both terrorists, as Islam’s apologists speedily pointed out, recently converted to Islam. We Canadians (those of us not “experts” on Islam) are to understand that their homicidal behaviour has nothing to do with the “pure Islam” and everything to do with mental illness and drug abuse.

Well, let me be the first Canadian to venture the thought that, in light of the history of this destructively peculiar religion, from its bloody beginning to its present day devastations, whenever you have a religious ideology in immediate need of guarding against “radicalization” from within its ranks, whenever you have a religion in immediate need of experts to exculpate its tenets from the sins of its adherents, you have an ideology contradistinctively insalubrious and dangerous to the rest of mankind. And the scariest aspect of this reality, from a Western perspective, is that we are averse to condemn this religion as dangerous to mankind, simply because of the fact that its followers are so many and their general existence so fragmented by sects, one antithetical to the other, but primarily because it’s a dangerous taboo to entertain publicly.

And I appreciate the acts of kindness the “infidels” of Cold Lake Alberta have shown the Muslim community there after villains broke windows and sprayed graffiti all over their mosque. But we have just witnessed two of Islam’s new converts murder two of our soldiers in cold blood. (A day after the second attack in Canada, we read that another “new convert to Islam” attacked two New York City policemen with a carpenter’s hatchet.) The biggest obstacle to ameliorating the scourge of “homegrown terrorism” in Canada (and in USA) is the failure to identify its source. The answer will not be found in attempting to “de-radicalize” those Muslims zealots who have already stepped beyond the bounds of civility and tolerance and have left for bloodier landscapes. I’m no expert in the process (who is?), but I remember reading that many of the hard-core prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay returned to take up again the jihad where they left off before their capture. As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were refused entry into Great Britain because, it was told them, their presence there would create a security risk. Albert Camus wrote, “Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” We must ask ourselves, who created the security risk? Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller? Or the Muslims who were poised to go stark raving mad had these courageous Americans been permitted to speak the truth in Great Britain? Britain’s government feared the burning car scenes the French were forced to endure on the streets of their Paris suburbs; they were forced to respect more the predictable violence of the Muslim community than the stinging weight of the truth about the religion always present behind the incitement of such violence and looting. Britain is lost. France is lost. Holland is lost. Any country kowtowing to the predictable and attendant violence of their Muslim communities is already compounding the ordinary societal difficulties they had endured before having encountered Islam’s religiously defined, imperialistic agenda. Such a country is doomed to an existence of trying to placate an implacable foe living within their borders. Example: the State of Israel and their foolish attempt at placating the Hamas monster by kicking Jewish families out of their homes and out of Gaza.

I wonder if these “infidels” of Cold Lake Alberta would still appreciate their Muslim neighbours as much had they ever seen the same apologetic and “moderate Muslims” of Toronto shamefully and publicly waving Hezbollah and Hamas flags across the street from the Israeli Consulate. Had they seen Muslim children dressed up like suicide bombers on the streets of downtown Toronto acting out the Quran’s anti-Jewish sentiment, would they be as eager to wipe away the graffiti and replace the windows of the Cold Lake mosque?

We Canadians know how numerous our terrorist enemies have recently become. The Islamic State (ISIS) made damn sure we know. What we should be more concerned about since the attacks in Ottawa is where those enemies reside. I will tell you where they don’t reside: not in Hindu and Sikh Temples, not in Jewish synagogues and not in Christian churches. And the hateful ideology giving birth to these enemies cannot be found in these places of worship either. Like old Agis, we must not ask how many the enemy are, but where they are.

Michael Devolin has been a member of JDL Canada since the 1980s, and has served as the personal bodyguard to Meir Weinstein, National Director of JDL Canada, at several high-profile trials, including the Jim Keegstra hate crimes trial and the Imra Finta war crimes trial.

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  1. Frank Scarn says

    Oct 28, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    Re: the recent convert excuse.

    Before his 632 AD death Mohammed witnessed the entire Arabian peninsula being shackled to the yoke of Islam.

    So who did this shackling?

    Answer. Recent converts to Islam. Mohammed saw little success in selling his new religion in Mecca. After several years of trying he had at best, as reported by Bill Warner, some 150 converts. It was in this Meccan period that the Koran was infused with the more gentle verses.

    Mohammed struck out for greener pastures, leaving Mecca for Medina in 622 AD, an event so important to Muslims that this departure, called the Hijra, begins the Islamic calendar. Once in Medina the character of the Koran changed markedly. Mohammed began filling its pages with all the war-making duties on Muslims to bring Islam to the entire world.

    10 years later, at the time of his death, Mohammad and his Islam had tens of thousands of converts and had subjected all of Arabia to Islam. Within 50 years after Mo’s death, all these recent converts spilled out from Arabia and had conquered the Near and Middle East, and would soon capture all of North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and up towards Greece and Europe.

    All done by recent converts to Islam.

    • Jaladhi says

      Oct 28, 2014 at 4:15 pm

      Indeed, and their excursions to the East gobbled up Persia, Afghanistan and India. From each country the a large number of women who were captured and enslaved were sent back to Arabia as a gift to the Caliphs.

      One story about Bib Qasim who invaded Sindh in Western India(adjoining Persia), defeated King Dahir, and sent two daughters of the king to the Caliph as a gift to his harem(isn’t that nice these sexual perverts always do that in every country they invade). The princesses were clever and told the Caliph they already were defiled by Bin Qasim and they are not worthy of the Caliph. The caliph had Bin Qasim brought back wrapped in a rug and he died on the way at age twenty. The princesses got their revenge!! Ha, hah… at least one Muslim invader was brought to justice.

  2. IQ al Rassooli says

    Oct 28, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Not how many but where? An excellent article BUT still very polite towards the ‘religion of peace’

    WHERE, is the solution to the Gordian Knot of Muhammadan Islam

    WHERE, resides entirely in Muhammad’s Quran as taught in every Mosque and Madrassah on Earth

    While Muslim countries (57 of them) treat none Muslims (80% of current humanity) with CONTEMPT and would not allow them to build their temples of worship, the same Duplicitous, Hypocritical, Ingrate Muslims DEMAND their ‘rights’ in our free democracies

    The problem facing Western civilization is NOT the onslaught of Muslims. Not at all.

    The tragedy resides with our Politically Correct, servile DHIMMI leaders and COMATOSE public

    Recently there was a huge demonstration by ordinary Italians (Estimated in the TENS of thousands) in Milan furious at the flood of ILLEGAL Muslim immigrants changing the demography, economy and social structure of Italy

    If two more cities show their anger against their sitting politicians with such numbers, these demonstrations will run like wild fire across Europe because most ordinary Europeans also have had enough of Illegals especially Muslim ingrates

    Mr Scarn is perfectly correct of course regarding how ‘converts to Islam’ subjugated the Pagan Arabs by terror and slaughter to accept the ‘religion’ of Muhammad

    In the year 632 when Muhammad died MOST of those who converted unwillingly REVOLTED and it took Abu Bakr the first Khalifa of Islam TWO years of slaughter to force them back to Islam

    Islam is NOT a religion. Islam is a CULT belief system; the CULT of Muhammad. A CULT that must NEVER be allowed to soil our soil

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • rabrooks says

      Oct 29, 2014 at 3:09 pm

      Excellent! I couldn’t have put it better. There iss one thing that muzzy’s count on. Every time they invade a society, one of their first acts is to destroy the library! They intend to erase any history that isn’t theirs. Their people barely know the koran, and will never know the truth about how mentally crippled they are. This also restricts the subjugated people’s knowledge/understanding of how it used to be or how the rest of the world works. They depend on this to continue gaining support. They hate it when “kaffers” read the koran and speak intelligently on the subject. They get mad and first ask “is the in the koran?”(they actually don’t know) But soon after that they go to the old stand by “I get angry when you talk about my religion”. How the hell can anyone discuss world history without them. As dispicable, they still deserve mention.

    • Uncle Vladdi says

      Oct 30, 2014 at 1:49 am

      Re: “The tragedy resides with our Politically Correct, servile DHIMMI leaders and COMATOSE public.”

      True – habitually treasonous MASOCHISM is always induced “Authority’s” victims.

      Masochists always try to “control” their fears, BY causing the pains they fear.

      ;-(

  3. Neil Jennison says

    Oct 28, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    There is little doubt that Islam is not just a religion, but a political movement of war and supremacism.

    A good article, true……but it doesn’t go far enough.

  4. Jerry says

    Oct 28, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    There is no such thing as an Islamic “moderate” –
    only active Jihadi and dormant Jihadi.

  5. ninetyninepct says

    Oct 29, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    The people of Cold Lake have no knowledge of islam or muslims or the koran. Before they run around and make themselves feel good, cleaning a terrorist breeding pit, they should research and investigate islam and them run the muslims out of Cold Lake.

    Why is there a mosque close to a Canadian military base? How many islamic terrorists work at the base? If any, they should be fired.

    • Uncle Vladdi says

      Oct 30, 2014 at 1:50 am

      Excellent points!

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