The Worst Form of Inequality
by Michael Devolin
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” –Aristotle
I believe the biggest threat to western democracies today comes not only from Islam’s traditions of intolerance and political violence and anti-Western sentiment, but also from those apologists and pluralists, both religious and political, who are making every effort to convince us that this threat—these egregious customs—were never foreign to our North American traditions of tolerance and rule of law; as though Islam, with its ever-present political and religious maelstroms, is applicable to our democratic way of life.
One premise being applied vigorously is that, simply because western countries are co-ordinating with Islamic governments in fighting “Islamist” terrorism, it cannot be said that terrorism (read: jihad) originates from basic Islam or that the Muslim demographic is not become an obtrusive element in western societies. But as Efraim Karsh lucidly reminds us, “Political cooperation, however, has not meant accepting Western doctrines or values, as the events of September 11, 2001, amply demonstrate. Contrary to widespread assumptions, these attacks, and for that matter Arab and Muslim anti-Americanism, have little to do with US international behavior or its Middle Eastern policy. If, today, America is reviled in the Muslim world, it is not because of its specific policies but because, as the preeminent world power, it blocks the final realization of this same age-old dream of regaining the lost glory of the caliphate. As such, it is a natural target for aggression. Osama bin Laden and other Islamists’ war is not against America per se, but is rather the most recent manifestation of millenarian jihad for a universal Islamic empire (or umma).” Or as Paul Wolfowitz (US Deputy Secretary of Defence 2001-2005) once said of Afghanistan, “It’s generally right not to put ourselves in the business of trying to govern a very foreign country for which we had neither the cultural nor linguistic capacity to do it….it’s beyond our competence.” If we cannot govern such a “very foreign country” from a distance, how then can we hope to govern those very same peoples who, as immigrants to western democracies, bring with them the same contumacious and sectarian religious traditions that rendered them ungovernable in those Islamic countries of their birth? This is the potentially dangerous imbroglio being wilfully and shamelessly obfuscated daily by our media and politicians, the former only interested in selling newspapers, and the later only interested in selling themselves.
If Islam and its egregious manifestations of violence and political aggression (jihad) were not a problem, why is Europe now the scene of massive demonstrations against “Islamization” of the continent? If Islam is good, if “jihad” is not really the sore point of contemporary Islam, why are these demonstrations taking place? Could it be that Europeans are just simply bad and they’ve got it all wrong and Islam is intrinsically good? But why are terrorism and jihad always the inexplicit elements of any discussion about Islam today? The fact that we are constantly advised and reassured (usually by those far removed from even the periphery of these problems) that western democracies have nothing to worry about Islam the religion, that jihad and “creeping sharia” are not really intrinsic to its essential message should be understood as an indirect admission of these perilous contingencies. Or as Thomas Friedman said recently in the New York Times, “It is not good for us or the Muslim world to pretend that this spreading of jihadist violence isn’t coming out of their faith community.”
Raphael Israeli asks what are by now both pressing and proverbial questions: “If this horror [9/11] has nothing to do with normative Islam, as we often hear it said, do we find in any other contemporary faith or system of belief any individual or organization which has launched or made common cause with a scheme of this scope and of this horrendous cruelty and inhumanity?…Why is it that most armed conflicts in the world today, and most acts of terrorism throughout the globe, are caused by, or connected to, Islam of one brand or another?…What is in fundamentalist Islam that is so bellicose and uncompromising as to sanction conflict, terrorism and ‘suicide bombing’?” And my question is: Why is every honest criticism of Islam and general Muslim behaviour today misconstrued or translated as the mad leanings of an “Islamophobe”? Irshad Manji has advised her fellow Muslims that when they become “ultra-defensive” about uncomfortable questions regarding their faith, the non-Muslim world will think they have something to hide.
Rudyard Kipling wrote, “If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.” Well, the West has been hit “over the nose” numerous times by now, and very forcefully—twice at the World Trade Centre in New York City for starters. Therefore, we are taking a deep interest in where Islam the religion is going from this point on, in what direction it is travelling. We have many questions the Muslim world, here and abroad, seem to be in the habit of dismissing out of hand. But we will not be ignored. We want the “umma” to acknowledge the fact that, even though the three major religions of the world are ancient, they are not at all equal. I do not see Christians today murdering each other because of theological differences. I do not see Jews today blowing themselves up in restaurants in Germany and Russia because of pogroms that took place long ago. I do read about Muslims blowing up trains in Madrid in 2004 because of the lost “Muslim cultural domain” of Al-Andalus (now Andalusia). I’ve seen caricatures, drawn by Muslim cartoonists, of Jews depicted as rats and Nazis, as published in modern newspapers in just about every Islamic country in the Middle East, without Jews by the thousands going stark raving mad and burning cars and destroying foreign embassies. Only Muslims do this, and the vast majority of them will never be condemned by the media and politicians as being “extremists” or “fundamentalists”.
To equate Islam with Judaism or Christianity, therefore, is the worst form of inequality. More than that, it is grossly imprudent. We are condoning an aggressively cruel, and willfully shameless, ideology whose essential goals are entirely imperialistic, for territorial gain and for religious preponderance. Who doesn’t see this is neither blind nor foolish, but probably complicit in this aggression.
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.
Michael Copeland says
Western politicians and media seek to make religions equal. Islam does not.
‘It is unbelief to hold that the remnant cults now bearing the names of formerly valid religions such as “Christianity” or “Judaism” are acceptable…”
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” w4.1(2) (a free download).
“If anyone desires a religion other than Islam never will it be accepted of him”,
Koran 3:85, part of Islamic law.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Fight until there is no God but Allah.
Or, if you’re on the freedom side of the equation, fight until Allah is no longer a God. That’s the only way out of this 1,400 year old mess.
Spot On says
Gen. Curtiss Lemay once said that war is hell but if you eliminate enough of the enemy, you win. That was the philosophy of WWII and we won. In a war to the finish, there is no other way. Lately I have heard several opinion makers say much the same regarding Islamic war. So there is still hope.
On the other hand, Obama has chosen sides and it is not our side. Thomas Sowell has said his worst fear is that we will need to lose one or two of our large cities before we react but he worries that Obama would then surrender if still in power.
terry says
“To equate Islam with Judaism or Christianity, therefore, is the worst form of inequality. More than that, it is grossly imprudent. We are condoning an aggressively cruel, and willfully shameless, ideology whose essential goals are entirely imperialistic, for territorial gain and for religious preponderance.”
I was getting sick hearing the media, almost every day up till recently, equating Islam’s ideology, kind of fruits and history to those of other religions.
Michael Devolin wrote exactly what I had in mind, about this subject, for a long time!
mortimer says
In the April 9, 2002 issue, The Wall Street Journal published the concept of blood money in Saudi Arabia. If a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the latter has to pay blood money or compensation, as follows.
100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
50,000 riyals if a Christian man
25,000 riyals if a Christian woman
6,666 riyals if a Hindu man
3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman
According to this hierarchy, a Muslim man’s life is worth 33 times that of a Hindu woman. This hierarchy is based on the Islamic definition of human rights and is rooted in the Quran and Sharia (Islamic law). How can we talk of democracy when the concept of equality in Islam is nonexistent?
Inequality is a basic concept of Islam.
Nicu says
That’s exactly why we want PEGIDA – we are tired to be a 3rd class citizen in our own countries !
If a Muslim gets killed the whole family gets 100.000€ plus an invitation to out President ( traitor ).
If you get injured or killed as a Non – Muslim – nobody cares !
cs says
Man…
cs says
WE DON’T WANT FREEDOM, WE WANT SHARIA.
This is a regular also.
Ren says
The problem is that muslims glorify inequality and are reluctant to equality, unlike westerners!
Michael Copeland says
See the placards in pictures:
Get the Message?
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5748-get-the-message
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Freedom can go to hell.
– from the placards of the protesting Moslem activists
They must’ve beefed up the writing classes in the madrasas. This statement is concise and clear. So clear that the first thing I thought reading it was, “Gee, didn’t Prez Barack Hussein say that?”
I wonder if the deep thinkers in our news entertainment industry will spend time ruminating on the statement. It seems to be widely held among Moslems, and thus deserves due public consideration. But that won’t happen, cuz doing so would put the lie to the myth of Unicorns.
Don McKellar says
Good piece.
In order for this self-destructive fiasco in modern, advanced countries to continue, they must imagine a relativism between Islam and other religions. In order to do that, they must never, ever read and study the contents of a Koran or the other Islamic texts. They find this the “easy way”, as it’s all completely tedious, ridiculous garbage to try and wade through. So they rely on their trusted moslem friends to tell them what’s in there and what they want to believe. Until this changes, and they wake up and go the Bill Maher route and use their eyes and logic, no matter how uncomfortable and unsettling it is, or they go the Robert Spencer route and educate themselves — or preferably do both — this self-destructive, expensive, and deadly path we are on will continue.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Or as Thomas Friedman said recently in the New York Times, “It is not good for us or the Muslim world to pretend that this spreading of jihadist violence isn’t coming out of their faith community.”
Must Friedman be wrong on everything? You’d think that, as a Jew, he’d put on the thinking cap for this one.
No, Tom, pretending *is* good for Moslems that the Infidels pretend that Jihadist violence isn’t coming out of the Moslem community or the Islamic scriptures. Duh. They are able to command more respect from the pretension, with the emphasis on the word command.
Jax Tolmen says
I think he’s saying that showing complicity forthwith is not going to be good for Muslims, not that they don’t think it will benefit them. Either they finally stand up and condemn the actions properly and work towards reforming Islam – or they will ALL be swept away in the torrent of violence that is likely to follow in the future.
War is coming – and it is a war the backwards, technologically inept Muslims cannot possibly hope to win.
Champ says
“ISLAM WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD”
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Yes, this is their goal …
And obama will NEVER state this fact and admit to the islamic agenda, but with the help of obama’s evil deceit and trickery, he will facilitate islam’s rise to power for a short time. But in the end islam will be crushed; and not by man’s military abilities and strenghts, but by God when Christ returns to set things right and establish His earthly kingdom here on earth for 1000 years.
Question: “What is the purpose of the thousand-year reign of Christ?”
Answer: http://www.gotquestions.org/thousand-year-reign-Christ.html
Champ says
Oh I love those things, too!!
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/little-kitten-bow-flowers-white-background-33232280.jpg
Enjoy! 🙂
William Lucas HarveyJr. says
The Key Muslim, Islamic, Jihadist, Sympathizing Apologists we have in America are our ‘Imperial President’ “Barack Hussein Obama”, and his Administration (Including John Kerry of the State Department), and New Jersey Governor “Chris Christie”.
Christie is on CAIR’s (the Council on Arab Islamic Relations) “Best List”, and wants to run for President in 2016) – interesting the Broadcast News Media always talks about Chrisitie ‘Scandals’ like ‘Bridge Gate’, but never about Christie’s Muslim, Islamic ‘Sympathies’.
If Christie became President, the “Black Flag of Islam” WOULD Fly over the White House, as the Islamists have Threatened, (of course it already sort of IS “In Spirit” under the Obama Administration).
mortimer says
Devolin wrote: “To equate Islam with Judaism or Christianity, therefore, is the worst form of inequality.”
Islam calls itself a ‘deen’, rather than a mere ‘religion’. A ‘deen’ is a polity or system of governance. Islam is an empire…the Holy Arab Empire, so it is unique. The ‘deen’ (empire) of Islam has a state religion.
The goal of Islam is a kingdom very much of this world.
Jesus separated the things of Caesar from the things of God and said, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’
There is no official Christian state, while a caliphate is normative Islam. On that, 65% of all Muslims agree.
The opinion surveys show that the vast majority of Muslims are political supremacists and therefore poor candidates to become loyal citizens of democratic countries.
jewdog says
The worthy idea of racial equality has been carried to absurd lengths by the modern, fashionable concept of the equality of cultures. We are now told that it is “racist” to point out the obvious pathologies of Muslim culture. Long gone are the clear-headed days of Jefferson and Adams who grappled with the Barbary pirates and succinctly described their mindset. Gone too, are the days when the French responded to that same piracy by invading Algeria and colonizing it. It’s no coincidence that France gave up its colony in the 1960s, the decade that saw the West first lose its self-confidence. I just hope PEGIDA and Geert Wilders are the start of a new trend.
Salah says
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
The Qur’an says that both Jesus (Isa) and Muhammad are prophets. Then, while trying to describe the two prophets, every single verse and/or hadith admits that the difference between the two is mainly this:
Jesus was Sinless, Muhammad was a Sinner.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/05/saint-and-sinner.html
shabeer_hassan says
Prophet Muhammed[saw]true follower of Allah:
48: 29. Muhammad (SAW) is the Messenger of Allâh…………..
4: 64. We sent no Messenger, but to be obeyed by Allâh’s Leave.
13: 37. And thus have We sent it (the Qur’ân) down to be a judgement of authority in Arabic. Were you (O Muhammad SAW) to follow their (vain) desires after the knowledge which has come to you, then you will not have any Walî (protector) or defender against Allâh.
13: 38. And indeed We sent Messengers before you (O Muhammad SAW), and made for them wives and offspring. And it was not for a Messenger to bring a sign except by Allâh’s Leave. (For) each and every matter there is a Decree (from Allâh).
33: 21. Indeed in the Messenger of Allâh (Muhammad SAW) you have a good example to follow for him who hopes in (the Meeting with) Allâh and the Last Day and remembers Allâh much.
42: 24. Or say they: “He has invented a lie against Allâh?” If Allâh willed, He could have sealed your heart (so that you forget all that you know of the Qur’an). And Allâh wipes out falsehood, and establishes the truth (Islâm) by His Word (this Qur’an). Verily, He knows well what (the secrets) are in the breasts (of mankind).
42:51. . It is not given to any human being that Allâh should speak to him unless (it be) by Inspiration, or from behind a veil, or (that) He sends a Messenger to reveal what He wills by His Leave. Verily, He is Most High, Most Wise .
52. And thus We have sent to you (O Muhammad SAW) Ruhan (an Inspiration, and a Mercy) of Our Command. You knew not what is the Book, nor what is Faith? But We have made it (this Qur’ân) a light wherewith We guide whosoever of Our slaves We will. And verily, you (O Muhammad SAW) are indeed guiding (mankind) to the Straight Path (i.e. Allâh’s religion of Islâmic Monotheism).
43: 43. So hold you (O Muhammad SAW) fast to that which is inspired in you. Verily, you are on a Straight Path.
Muslim :: Book 9 : Hadith 3506
God did not send me to be harsh, or cause harm, but He has sent me to teach and make things easy.
Western Canadian says
Let me simplify this for you: Chirst = Good. Mo = Evil.
Christ vs Mo (the anti-Christ)
terry says
Shabeer Hassan,
Go gasp for air somewhere else!
Western Canadian says
It is truly amazing, just how weak a mind this moron is possessed by, in his never-ending efforts to sell the people who frequent this board, his criminally sick and pathetic lies about his hate cult, the most vicious crime ever committed against the human race.
Champ says
shabeer_hassan wrote:
“Prophet Muhammed[saw]true follower of Allah”
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Correction …
Perverted Muhammad (perdition be upon him) true follower of Satan
Crixus says
The thing is that the article above ignores history. Westerners have a long history of ruling Muslims and alien cultures, if you wish to see an example of how to manage Islam and jihad, the British Empire set one over 200 years. This was achieved by the simple principle of getting the senior Caliph in Cairo to declare by fatwa that the British Empire was Dar Es Islam, the house of Islam. Also British administration and officers all spoke Urdu and on the whole, with a couple of notable exceptions, kept a lid iron Jihad and effectively diffused it for 200 years.
So successful were the local governors that after Pakistani independence, Jinnah actually hired the former Scottish governor of the North West Frontier and Kabul to govern and stabilise the district for Pakistan. As it had fallen into internal conflict.
Governor Stewart did this very successfully and restored peace to the area simply by the trust and respect he had formed with the diverse war Lords over 30 years through a combination of divide and rule and swift, forceful action when required.
The problem in Dhimmi Britain and the USA is that anything learned from British imperial history is immediately written off as UN politically correct and therefore taboo and irrelevant. Not to be discussed. This is a simplistic, historically inaccurate and foolish re writing of history, British government throughout the 19th and early 20th century managed India effectively with around 5000 British administrators and about the same in non Indian troops. My grandfather’s Indian Army regiment had only 5 British officers, on the northwest Frontier they were the only Britons in a 200 mile area and yet were able to govern through mutual respect and by not imposing Western democracy on a society that only was interested in strong leadership.
What did Kipling also say?
‘take the white man’s burden’
BARRY says
Hi Crixus. I do not disagree with your comment. Indeed, I found your comment historically accurate. I agree with what you said, but I would add the following qualifier, if you would allow it: While most people do not know history, and do not care that they do not know history, there are still some us who still read history very carefully (like you do). I do not write off British Imperial History as taboo, or as UN political correctness, and I submit to you that, in my opinion, there are also many others out there who agree with your comment, and who feel we can learn from history.
Keil says
Obama is not on our side; that’s true words. Keep an eye on him, lately he pays the new king of Saudi Arabia an honorable visit. You could call him a treacherous leader and with him a line of European leaders as well. – Either the bunch is not aware of the deadly threat to Western culture or they are the most cynical lot on earth. Maybe it all has to be cooked up with old-fashioned fear and cowardice. Shame on the bastards!
Dave J says
“Aggressively cruel and willfully shameless”. How true.
They have told us they intend to kill us and rule the world. We ignore them or attempt to placate them at our existential peril.
FatherJon says
While we all get outraged over the latest daily horror story coming from the Muslim camp, I watch how our Western leaders continually sell us out shamelessly, all in pursuit of the black gold that flows from the sands of Saudi and the Gulf states. None of our politicians deserve any votes for honesty and integrity. They’re certainly not planning for their voting constituencies, only looking at their own longevity and healthy pension schemes.
Muslims now own a substantial part of London, erecting their palaces and blow holes to carry on their haram activities during the hot months back home. Their fellow countrymen, the lesser privileged, have developed their sharia zones in most main British cities and across Europe. They’ve bought the loyalties of our politicians with dirty lucre who sell us out, simultaneously calming us with pabulum in true ‘al taqiyya’ style. Tony Blair and George Galloway aren’t Robinson Crusoe when it comes to double talk on behalf of their Muslim paymasters.
I think we’re looking at massive disruption across the UK and Europe in times to come as militant Islamists re-open the ‘Gates of Vienna’ for another go as the push for Islamic supremacy gathers apace.