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No Happy Ending and No Happy Beginning

Jun 6, 2015 1:15 pm By Michael Devolin

islamic_jihad“In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.”
–Lemony Snickit, from ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’

George Jonas, author of Vengeance, has written: “But is there something about Islam that is conductive to the formation of extremist sects and radical movements? Is Islam a petri dish in which a culture of fundamentalism thrives? Arguably, yes.” Otherwise, the only explanation for the enduring presence of Islamic fundamentalism and its attendant Jew-hatred in the Middle East is that Arabs are bad and Islam is good. But if we say Arabs are bad, we are condemned as racists. If we say Islam is bad, we are condemned as Islamophobic. Far easier to pretend Islamic imperialism is non-existent and blame all the troubles of the Middle East on a Western appetite for oil and those damn Jews and their Zionism.

And if Zionist Jews are so bad simply because they’ve reacquired only that small parcel of land stolen from their ancestors centuries ago by Muslim invaders, consider the imperialist footprint of Arab Muslims, as historian Vernon Eggers points out: “Within the lifetime of some of the children who met Muhammad and sat on the Prophet’s knees, Arab armies controlled the land mass that extended from the Pyrenees Mountains in Europe to the Indus River valley in South Asia. In less than a century, Arabs had come to rule over an area that spanned five thousand miles.” The State of Israel is maligned and excoriated simply because Jews refuse to lie down and die, but the history of Islam’s shameless imperialism and expansionist adventures is to be forgiven and forgotten, as though trivial and inconsequential.

Former spook Michael Scheuer, who resigned from the CIA, would have us believe that Israel’s oft quoted maxim of “right to exist” is untenable in the real world, that no country has the right to exist. He suggests that history teaches us that “You form your country and you take your chances,” and yet blames the United States for the unenviable and weak position of “the fairly and democratically elected Hamas” (Adolf Hitler and the Nazis Party were also “fairly and democratically elected”) in a political arena where Israel demands that Hamas recognize Israel’s right to exist “before talks between the two can begin and before Hamas can receive Western economic aid.” It sucks to be Hamas—it sucks to be regarded by the elites of most Western democracies as a terrorist entity notorious for its implacable anti-Jewish hatred and genocidal vision of the Middle East. Cry me a river, Michael Scheuer.

George Jonas in another place reminds us that “…Christendom has come a fair distance since the Crusades. Fundamentalist Islam has not.” The relationship between Jews and Christians has progressed salubriously since the Holocaust, and especially since the formation of the State of Israel. Of course, the world will always be plagued with sciolists from both camps, those who are enthralled with the false pretense that the Holocaust did not necessitate the existence of the State of Israel (regardless the Torah’s prescription for a Jewish state) and that Hamas and the PA are nothing more than the illegitimate progeny of “Zionist aggression.” I agree with Rabbi Kahane: Better a Jewish state that everyone hates than an Auschwitz that everyone loves.”

Nobody hates the State of Israel more than the Arab Muslim. This is not the fault of being born Arab but the fault of being born Arab Muslim. Since the advent of Islam into the Middle East, Jews have since been hated not because they were allied with this Arab kingdom or that Arab kingdom, but solely because they were Jews, the Golden Era of Islam be damned. Those truly dedicated to the Prophet and his avant-garde religion turned on and murdered local Jews only because they were Jews; because they had rejected the Prophet Mohammed’s inane (in their view) proclamation to them, that he was a prophet-come-lately of the G-D of Israel. And this violent religious egoism has dominated the politics of Islam ever since. How else to explain the absurdity of many of modern Islam’s prerogatives, like the demand that Jews be prohibited from worshipping on the Temple Mount, or—to hasten to the essence of this religion’s real purpose—that Jews and their Judaism cease to exist altogether, whether in Israel or beyond? And all these demands in order to make way for the political and religious preponderance of a future Caliphate. Think Osama bin-Laden and Al-Qaeda. Think ISIS. Think Anjem Choudary.

So, to borrow again from Lemony Snicket, “If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.” Islam the religion did not start out on a happy or innocuous note, nor does it exist today as a source of good news, and there are very few (if any) happy stories in between. Moreover, even if you fairly revile this religion for the flagitious tales it leaves in its wake, you could be gunned down in the street. Atheists (whom I deeply and wholeheartedly admire) may disparage Christianity and Judaism with little risk to themselves or their families, but not so if they point out inconvenient truths about Islam and its umma. Religious egoists dislike hearing the inconvenient truths about their faith, about “the very few happy things in the middle,” and none more than the Muslim zealot.

Written by Michael Devolin

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  1. Angemon says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 1:36 pm

    Former spook Michael Scheuer, who resigned from the CIA, would have us believe that Israel’s oft quoted maxim of “right to exist” is untenable in the real world, that no country has the right to exist. He suggests that history teaches us that “You form your country and you take your chances,” and yet blames the United States for the unenviable and weak position of “the fairly and democratically elected Hamas” (Adolf Hitler and the Nazis Party were also “fairly and democratically elected”) in a political arena where Israel demands that Hamas recognize Israel’s right to exist “before talks between the two can begin and before Hamas can receive Western economic aid.”

    Despite all Scheuer gets wrong, he got one fundamental thing right: that the West was dead wrong if they thought that only fringe lunatics would take bin Laden’s ideology seriously. He got it right for the wrong reasons, but if the West had taken that notion seriously (which, as far as I’m concerned, has yet to happen) when his first book was published, things would be drastically different now.

    • Jaladhi says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 3:34 pm

      Yeah, its the lunatic fringe that will embrace bib Laden’s ideology but the lunatic fringe is very large and it includes the whole ummah. That rest the case why every Muslim is suspect when it comes to his presence in the West. He has only one aim of some how taking over the West by converting or killing all non-Muslims!!

  2. Don McKellar says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    I just find so baffeling when I see photos like the one above. As Michael points out in the piece about the self-denial of the history of Arab imperialism, so too does this photo show an even greater self-denial. None of those men in that picture are able to step back from themselves and take a look at the big picture of what they are doing. They are completely absorbed in their religiousity. So absorbed that they can’t even make this simple logical deduction: If they are fighting for the all-powerful creator of the Universe, why must they murder and threaten violence to impose that creator’s will on other people, all while hiding their faces and identities? Does it make even a tiny bit of sense that the all-powerful creator of the Universe would need murder and violence and guerilla warfare to impose his laws on the human beings he created? It doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. And it wouldn’t make a damn bit of sense to them either — if they could pull themselves back for just a few minutes and get a meta-view of things. But they can’t. They are trapped.

  3. Champ says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 1:43 pm

    Great essay, MIchael …

    And I especially like this point:

    “Moreover, even if you fairly revile this religion for the flagitious tales it leaves in its wake, you could be gunned down in the street. Atheists (whom I deeply and wholeheartedly admire) may disparage Christianity and Judaism with little risk to themselves or their families” …

    As a Christian, the worst thing I might do is YELL at someone and/or call them a “fool”; or hit them over the head with a Bible verse, or two …lol! All completely harmless.

    A far cry from the threats of violence and the evil crimes mohammedans actually commit …all of which are allah (satan) approved; as directed in the unholy quran.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 9:32 pm

      *Very* true, Champ. Agnostics and atheists have nothing to fear from devout Jews and Christians, whereas *any* Infidel is threatened by pious Muslims.

  4. Brian says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    Islam has been at war with the West and the world since it’s very inception over 1400 years ago. It is now using Western technology, democracy, and mass immigration jihad against the West in it’s ongoing war…

  5. Linde Barrera says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    To Michael Devolin- Thank you for an excellent, well written article. The whole subject of what Islam can do to a person just turns my stomach. But I was surprised to learn that Hamas cannot receive any Western aid until it recognizes the state of Israel. I don’t think any terror group should receive Western aid, whether they recognize Israel or not. And now it makes sense to me why Pres. Obama removed The Muslim Brotherhood from the list of terrorist organizations—-to help them get US $. Wow, am I angry at that. I guess the leaders of the MB will all be buying up condos in Monte Carlo on our dimes. And the strange thing is, when I as a citizen want answers as to our president’s motivation for taking the MB off the “watch list”, I get gotz. I am very angry.

  6. jayell says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    “Within the lifetime of some of the children who met Muhammad and sat on the Prophet’s knees, Arab armies controlled the land mass that extended from the Pyrenees Mountains in Europe to the Indus River valley in South Asia. In less than a century, Arabs had come to rule over an area that spanned five thousand miles.” So there we have it. The ‘Religion of Peace’, of course! All those Arab soldiers won the hearts and minds of all those millions of people with sweet talk, interest-free Islamic improvement grants (as ordained by Allah) and free Dark-Age chocolate bars. But I’m not so sure that Iike the sound “the children who met Muhammad and sat on the Prophet’s knees….” With HIS reputation?

  7. Sam says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    Excellent article. However, in layman’s terms it means “there ain’t nothing good in Islam”

    • Jaladhi says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 3:37 pm

      You are being nice by saying that there is nothing good in Islam -but the fact is Islam is evil, evil, evil,..!!and nothing else!

  8. Nathanael Hoernlé says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    It should be pointed out that, while the empire building of Islam occurred centuries ago in a world very different from ours, Israel is a modern phenomenon to which modern standards are applied. The injustice
    (if it can be called that) that was done to the Arabs of Palestine was small by twentieth century standards,
    but perhaps that doesn’t make it nothing.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 9:46 pm

      Good grief, what rot. Muslims have full equal rights in Israel—this is not true for Jews or any other Infidels in Dar-al-Islam.

      In fact, there are very few Jews remaining in any part of the Muslim world. Even though there were significant Jewish populations in the whole of the Levant, Mahgreb, and Middle East, there is only a tiny remnant surviving there now save for Israel itself.

      And the idea that Muslim conquest is a thing of the distant past is utterly false—have you missed the calls for the destruction of Israel? Have you missed the bloody eradication of the mom-Muslim populations of Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, and increasingly in places like Kenya and Nigeria?

      Have you missed the naked genocide taking place in the Islamic State?

      Have you missed the increasingly violent inroads into Christian (or “post-Christian”) Europe, including vicious attacks on and murder of Jews?

      Bloody violence in the name of Islam is *hardly* an artifact of the the distant past.

  9. Jack Holan says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    In defense of Michael Scheuer, he is the personification of the CIA I envision when I hear stories of them withholding critical intel that by mutual written agreement they are supposed to share with us. In fact, it is alleged that the information supplied to Israeli was vital intel that Weinberger was holding back despite the agreements at that time. I’ll pass on the book. I don’t care to boost up my blood pressure unnecessarily over much of what I already know. One thing that would be intreating is whether or not Agent Scheurer’s resignation was forced or otherwise.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 4:14 pm

      I’d never heard of him, but I googled, and found this on Wiki;

      ] In September 2014 in addition to earlier “praise” received from Al Qaeda, the Da-ish, or self-proclaimed Islamic State, also issued a press release specifically praising Scheuer’s ideology.[8]

      That tells me *all* I need to know about him. Plus anyone who is willing to throw Israel under the bus is an evil creep.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Jun 6, 2015 at 4:47 pm

        Plus anyone who is willing to throw Israel under the bus is an evil creep.

        The throwing of Israel under the bus has already been done by Prez Barack Hussein. We’re only tapping our fingers as we watch the fuse burn. There is little Bibi or any other leader in Israel can do at this point.

      • Linde Barrera says

        Jun 6, 2015 at 5:14 pm

        To Mirren10- I am with you. Anyone who gets praise from IS has got to be a slimebag. I wonder what this creepy ex- CIA agent is doing now.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 6, 2015 at 6:51 pm

        As I said, he got it right for the wrong reasons: he rightfully asserted that it wouldn’t be only a small fringe of lunatics who would support bin Laden’s ideology. But he did that while legitimizing bin Laden’s grievances about “American Imperialism” while minimizing the role of religion as a motivator.

  10. mortimer says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    The Koran in a number of places assigns Israel to the ‘children of Israel’ and calls Israel ‘the Promised Land.’

    Koran 5.20 uses the word ‘assign’: “O my people (Jews), enter the Holy Land which God has assigned unto you…”

    Koran 5.32: “We ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone slew a person – unless it be in retaliation for murder or for spreading mischief IN THE LAND”
    What is ‘the land’ where Jews control the legal system? Obviously, ‘the land’ is Israel assigned to Jews by Koran 5.20.

    Koran 5.21: “We settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful dwelling place, and provided for them sustenance of the best.”
    Koran 5.21 “O my people! enter the holy land which Allah has prescribed for you and turn not on your backs for then you will turn back losers.
    Koran 26.59: “Even so. And We gave them as a heritage to the children of Israel.”

    Moreover, Koran 17.104 announces the return of Jews to Israel during the end times: “And thereafter We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: ‘Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd.”

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 10:05 pm

      Mortimer, the Qur’an does indeed note that the Jews have been given the Holy Land—then posits that because they defied Islam (they were supposedly all Muslims before they “corrupted” the Torah) they lost the right to that land, and life itself, to Muslims.

      The Qur’an asserts this again and again—that the Jews have lost any claim to “Allah’s” favor.

      As for Qur’an 17:104, this posits that Jews will be gathered in the promised land leading up to the last days so that Muslims may more easily mass-murder them.

      This is, indeed, how many pious Muslims interpret the meaning of the founding of modern Israel.

      The following verses emphasize the preeminence of the Qur’an itself, and by extension Muslims instead of Jews, and Sura 17:111 specifically insults Christians:

      http://quran.com/17/105-111

      None of this should be interpreted as Muslims recognizing the legitimacy of the Jewish state, or of Jews to live in freedom anywhere—instead, it claims that Jews have lost such rights forever. This is, indeed, why the existence of free, vibrant, and flourishing Israel is taken as such an insult by pious Mohammedans.

  11. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    And if Zionist Jews are so bad simply because they’ve reacquired only that small parcel of land stolen from their ancestors centuries ago by Muslim invaders…

    Are there authoritative statistics on how much of Israel was bought legally by incoming Zionist Jews? Fitzgerald did an essay on that some years ago, but I haven’t been able to find it. Also, the history he wrote was an essay not intended to deliver authoritative data on land acquisition by Jews returning to the Holy Land.

    Is there such a source anybody knows of?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 11:38 pm

      APF wrote:

      Fitzgerald did an essay on that some years ago, but I haven’t been able to find it.
      ………………………

      APF, I scrolled though all of Hugh’s prodigious output at Jihad Watch, but have been unable to identify the exact essay in question.

      Here’s the list of his work here:

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/articles-by-hugh-fitzgerald

      Perhaps you will have better luck—certainly, I do recall his writing on this subject.

  12. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 5:01 pm

    Those truly dedicated to the Prophet and his avant-garde religion turned on and murdered local Jews only because they were Jews.

    Well, they also murdered Jews in order to rob them of their land, goods and gold, and kidnapped Jewish women and girls to take as sex slaves. Also, they killed Abu Afak and Asma Marwan not simply because they were Jews, but because they were given hit contracts by the Holy Prophet Mohammed to murder them because they had criticized him.

    The ghost of Mohammed was in Garland a couple of weeks back.

  13. profitsbeard says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    Islam is more like something conjured up by H.P. Lovecraft.

    “These malign beings are able to enter our world only when the door is opened by persons who summon them by… uttering certain mystic words. The words are uttered and the beings invade our world.”

    Those words seem to be “Islamophobia” and “Religion of Peace“.

    • Linde Barrera says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 8:33 pm

      To profitsbeard- I love your analogy, referencing HP Lovecraft. Seems like you have the touch of the poetic storyteller in you as well. Remember “Night of the Living Dead” with the “pods”? Do you know any pods? More please!

  14. Bukkdem Jizheads says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Islam should be called Sexual Mayhem. From childhood, males are taught they should slaughter families of anyone whose faith is the least bit different and take their women. Due to polygamy, more and more women from outside are needed to fuel their system, like logs on a fire. It’s multi-level marketing on testosterone.

    Thank you so much for the quote fromVernon Eggers on Islam’s shameless imperialism. Wish it were taught in schools/universities.

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