In the ongoing struggle between Islam and the West, one important fact is regularly overlooked: one civilization has the will to triumph, but not the way; the other has the way to triumph, but not the will.
Some who dread Islam do not seem to understand this. They think that Islam is an irresistible force to be reckoned with; they see Muslim migrants as hordes of violent men invading Europe; they call on Western men to make a stand, resist the onslaught, save their women and children.
To be sure, this portrayal is historically valid: for one thousand years, Muslims repeatedly invaded and conquered portions of Europe—terrorizing, massacring, raping and enslaving in the name of Allah—and were only repulsed by force of arms.
Today’s situation is far less dramatic and epic; it’s actually quite pathetic. Muslim terrorists, rapists, and ISIS-sympathizers are not entering the West against its will but because of it. In other words, the West is 100% responsible for this “invasion.”
Consider it by analogy. What if zoos began to maintain that it’s a slanderous stereotype to say that lions by nature prey on zebras? Zoos start introducing lions into zebra enclosures. The inevitable happens: although well fed, some lions continue chasing and mauling zebras. Surely only a great fool would blame such carnage on lions—who, after all, are merely being lions—while ignoring those who insist on placing lions with zebras in the first place.
Similarly, those Western policy makers who continue insisting that Islam is peaceful (despite the overwhelming evidence otherwise), and that Muslim immigration is fine (despite the overwhelming evidence otherwise), are 100% to blame when Muslims terrorize, rape, and kill non-Muslims in the West—that is, when they do what comes natural back home.
Still, Western politicians get away with warped policies because the general public—including the average voter—has been bred on warped views. Thus, even as Germans were being overwhelmed by a million Muslim migrants, Dr. Stefanie von Berg, speaking before parliament, loudly proclaimed:
Mrs. President, ladies and gentlemen. Our society will change. Our city will change radically. I hold that in 20, 30 years there will no longer be a [German] majority in our city. …. And I want to make it very clear, especially towards those right wingers: This is a good thing!
Such suicidal words can be spoken and enacted only because voters have been conditioned to accept and support suicidal policies (which of course are dressed up to satisfy Western vanity). If they hadn’t, people like Berg, far from being elected to parliament, would be incarcerated for treason or committed into mental wards.
In the end, the relationship between Islam and the West is understood by the dichotomy of the will and the way. The West has the way—including the military and economic might—to utterly neutralize Islam, one way or the other. Yet it doesn’t even have the will to preserve itself. Ban Islam’s presence from the West—which is doable, provided the will is there—and Islamic terrorism on Western soil ceases. It’s that simple.
Conversely, Islam most certainly has the will to eliminate the West, though it currently doesn’t have the way (minus those ways the West gives it)…. Keep Reading

Linde Barrera says
As always, Raymond Ibrahim makes his points crystal clear and with great perspectives. I love the analogy of the lions with the zebras (being a retired elementary school science teacher) and I wish this article could appear in all the world’s major newspapers, as well as be a foundation for an episode of The Military Channel on cable television. Raymond Ibrahim’s writings are superb!
Angemon says
Seconded, Linde.
Linde Barrera says
Hi Angemon- I have missed you (been busy with different stuff) and hope you are feeling grrrreat. Take good care of yourself, please. There is only one you.
Angemon says
Likewise Linde 🙂
Jay Boo says
“Muslim terrorists, rapists, and ISIS-sympathizers
are not entering the West against its will but because of it.”
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Islam is so shameful and shallow that Muslims have to:
1 Deny free speech
2 Prop up Muhammad with PBUB
— (Muslims may use a token PBUH with others but their purpose is Muhammad).
3 Covertly and Overtly support child Rape Gangs to denigrate non-Muslim women and imply that Islam’s hijab MO – HO’s have more purity than others.
4 Do a grotesque and flamboyant Line-Dance / Curly Shuffle prayer dance display in desperate hope to impress others with their piety exhibitionism.
Islam’s foundation on Muhammad is such an obvious Hoax.
2016 Islam (MO’s Excuse) is as always still a pathetic JOKE.
Mulakush says
I think there is one reason why the West does not have the will to resist or rather why the leaders pretty much welcome these savage Muslim hordes. It has to do with workers. the more the worker pool, the lower the wages will be driven down. So the moneyed class that thinks only in 3-month terms tells the bought up politicians to welcome these savages to bolster the next round of profit. This happens regardless of the birth rate. I do not think that this will change as we do not live in democracies. We live in oligopolies where only the desires of the ultra rich matters.
Hope says
I love that quote from Churchill! I am writing it down.
Aussie Infidel says
Raymond has written a great article, which exposes the mindset of Leftist politicians – and the misled voters who support them. They have been so deeply indoctrinated by Marxist philosophy, political correctness, cultural relativism, and inclusiveness that they cannot see past the mental brick wall that process has built in their minds.
Raymond says,”Western politicians get away with warped policies because the general public—including the average voter—has been bred on warped views.” How very true! I know many such people in my own community, who have been misinformed, mislead, and deceived by erroneous explanations and downright lies. We need to remember the power of indoctrination and propaganda – it applies just as much to politics as it does to religion. Almost all students who have been through western universities over the last half century or so, have been exposed to these toxic ideas. I know that for certain, because back then I was a member of a leftist political party, and sat on some of their policy committees and listened to their debates. I knew some of those university lecturers who thought the sun shone out of Karl Marx’s arse, and hated capitalism with a vengeance. Eventually, I resigned from that Party in disgust, not only because of their dogmatic socialist ideology, but also because they embraced the toxic ideology of Islam.
No doubt the German politician Dr. Stefanie von Berg, who Raymond mentions, was cast in the same warped mold. Because of her mental conditioning, she probably doesn’t even realise that she is being treasonous – and aiding and abetting the cultural suicide of her country. But the truly sad part, is her statement that “in 20, 30 years there will no longer be a [German] majority in our city. …. And I want to make it very clear, especially towards those right wingers: This is a good thing!” Such people have grown to hate their own communities like poison. If von Berg imagines that the Muslims, which she is inviting into her country in droves, will allow some Marxist Utopia within the Islamic Ummah, she is living in fairyland. Islam tolerates no other religion or culture. Her Marxism will be replaced with Islam. Capitalism will be replaced, not by communism, but by Sharia Finance. German law will be replaced by the Shariah. Any stubborn Jews or Christians who remain, MAY be allowed to live as dhimmis – if they pay the jizya tax to keep their heads. However, short sighted atheists like von Berg, will be given only one choice – convert to Islam or die.
While many students are resistant to these ‘viruses of the mind’, many are not; and of course they go on to infect the next generation of gullible youngsters. An important consideration which many people do not properly understand, is that human beings are born with minds which are effectively ‘clean slates’, and every generation has to be educated anew. That education and the subsequent mental conditioning we acquire from our families and society at large, produces the people we are today. We are all products of our environment and conditioning; and that was well understood by those old hard line Marxists who began the indoctrination of our students half a century ago. The Stefanie von Bergs of this world are the result of that process. And unfortunately, many people like von Berg weild enormous political power. It is time to get rid of these dinosaurs and vote in new politicians who will bring about the changes we need. In this country, that’s why I’ve joined Australian Liberty Alliance.