[To get the whole story on Islam’s and the Left’s war on private love, see Jamie Glazov’s new book: Jihadist Psychopath: How He Is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us.]
Today, February 14, is Valentine’s Day, the sacred day that intimate companions mark to celebrate their love and affection for one another. If you’re thinking about making a study of how couples celebrate this day in a positive and loving manner, the Muslim world and the milieus of the radical Left are not the places you should be spending your time. Indeed, it’s pretty hard to outdo Islamists and “progressives” when it comes to the hatred of Valentine’s Day. And this hatred is precisely the territory on which the contemporary romance between the Left and Islamic Supremacism is formed – as my new book, Jihadist Psychopath, documents.
The train is never late: every year that Valentine’s comes around, the Muslim world erupts with ferocious rage, with its leaders doing everything in their power to suffocate the festivity that comes with the celebration of private romance. Imams around the world thunder against Valentine’s every year — and the celebration of the day itself is literally outlawed in Islamic states.
Last week, for instance, an Indonesian Muslim group named ‘Indonesia Tanpa Pacaran’ started promoting their new Sharia-compliant replacement for Valentine’s Day: “Indonesia Without Dating Day” — and began organizing rallies, talks and events to suffocate the actual real holiday and the practice of pre-marital dating. The group is just fulfilling, of course, what many cities across Muslim-majority Indonesia do every year: prohibit people from celebrating Valentine’s Day. In the city of Surabaya, when Valentine’s draws near, a group of school students, which include many girls wearing the hijab, always make sure to denounce the day. In Aceh province every year, Muslim clerics issue stern warnings to Muslims against observing Valentine’s Day. Tgk Feisal, general secretary of the Aceh Ulema Association (HUDA), has stated that “It is haram for Muslims to observe Valentine’s Day because it does not accord with Islamic Sharia.” He has stressed that the government must watch out for youths participating in Valentine’s Day activities in Aceh. One can only imagine what happens to the guilty parties.
In Iran, meanwhile, on Tuesday earlier this week, the Center for Reduction And Control of Social Harms of the Prosecutor’s Office in Qom threatened businesses that if they promoted “anti-cultural symbols such as Valentine’s symbols” they would be shut down from one to six months. The Prosecutor’s Office also provided a number for people to call to report “transgressions”.
Without doubt, the Islamic Republic of Iran is always on the case when it comes to Valentine’s Day. Under this vicious regime, any sale or promotion of Valentine’s Day-related items, including the exchange of gifts, flowers and cards, is strictly prohibited. Iran’s “morality” police consistently warn retailers against the promotion of Valentine’s Day celebrations, sternly ordering shops to remove heart-and-flower decorations and images of couples embracing on this day — and anytime around this day.
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is also on heightened alert. Every year it bans Valentine’s Day for promoting “immorality, nudity and indecency.” Last year, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) sustained its decision to outlaw Valentine’s Day celebrations across the country, ordering authorities to take action on anyone daring to celebrate or promote the Day of Love. Pakistani television and radio stations are disallowed from mentioning the event. No one in society, from an official level to any public place, can even hint that they might be celebrating, let alone thinking about, the day.
Pakistan views Valentine’s Day as an “insult” to Islam. In the past, Valentine’s Day activities in the Islamic country were disrupted by Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s main religious party, but in recent years the state and courts have involved themselves. Back on Valentine’s Day in Pakistan in 2013, supporters of Jamat-e-Islami took to the streets in Peshawar to vehemently denounce the Day of Love. Demonizing it as “un-Islamic,” the Muslim protestors shouted that the day had “spread immodesty in the world.” Shahzad Ahmed, the local leader of the student wing of Jamat-e-Islami, declared that the organization would not “allow” any Valentine’s Day functions, warning that if Pakistani law enforcement did not prevent Pakistanis from holding such functions, that the Jamat-e-Islami would stop them “in our own way.” Khalid Waqas Chamkani, a leader in Jamat-e-Islami, calls Valentine’s a “shameful day.”
These Islamic forces in Pakistan cannot, of course, no matter how hard they try, completely succeed in preventing couples from showing love to each other on this special day, and so many Pakistanis still cryptically celebrate Valentine’s Day and exchange presents in secret.
In Muslim-dominant Malaysia, meanwhile, while Islamic religious leaders and officials warn people against celebrating Valentine’s, the group The National Muslim Youth Association consistently issues a yearly pre-Valentine’s Day message in which it demonizes the day and specifically directs females not to use emoticons and perfume. Malaysia’s State mufti chief assistant Mat Jais Kamos is habitually mindful of issuing warnings about Valentine’s — and that is why, in 2014, a few days beforehand, he ordered young people to stay clear of celebrating the Day of Love: “The celebration emphasizes the relationship between two individuals rather than the love between family members or married couples,” he affirmed, and department officials backed up his command by distributing leaflets to remind citizens of the 2006 ban on Valentine’s Day issued by the state fatwa council.
In Saudi Arabia, the morality police consistently punish the slightest hint of Valentine’s Day celebrations. The Kingdom and its religious police officially issue stern warnings that anyone caught even thinking about Valentine’s Day will suffer some of the most painful penalties of Sharia Law. Daniel Pipes has documented how the Saudi regime takes a firm stand against Valentine’s every year. Indeed, the Saudi religious police outlaw the sale of all Valentine’s Day items, forcing shopkeepers to remove roses, all red items and numerous other gifts.
Christian overseas workers living in Saudi Arabia from the Philippines and other countries always take extra precautions, heeding the Saudis’ warning to them specifically to avoid greeting anyone with the words “Happy Valentine’s Day” or exchanging any gift that reeks of romance. A spokesman for a Philippine workers group has commented:
We are urging fellow Filipinos in the Middle East, especially lovers, just to celebrate their Valentine’s Day secretly and with utmost care.
Pakistan, Malaysia, Iran and Saudi Arabia are clearly carrying the torch for the Indonesian Ulema Council in Dumai, Riau, and for the Education, Youth and Sport Agency in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, both of which issue a dire warning each year to people against celebrating Valentine’s Day, stating that the Day of Love “is against Islam.” This is because, as the Indonesian Ulema Council 2011 judgment explained, Valentine’s Day takes young people into a “dark world.”
In Islamic Uzbekistan, several universities are very conscious of that dark world, habitually make sure that students actually sign contracts promising not to celebrate Valentine’s.
Typical of this whole pathology in the Islamic world was a development witnessed back on February 10, 2006, when activists of the radical Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Community) went on a rampage in Srinagar, the main city of the Indian portion of Kashmir. Some two dozen black-veiled Muslim women stormed gift and stationery shops, burning Valentine’s Day cards and posters showing couples together.
In the West, meanwhile, leftist feminists are not to be outdone by their Islamist allies in reviling — and trying to exterminate — Valentine’s Day. Throughout many Women’s Studies Programs on American campuses, for instance, you will find the demonization of this day, since, as the disciples of Andrea Dworkin angrily explain, the day is a manifestation of how capitalist, racist, classist, sexist and homophobic patriarchs brainwash and oppress women — and push them into spheres of powerlessness.
As an individual who spent more than a decade in academia, I was privileged to witness this war against Valentine’s Day up close and personal. Feminist icons like Jane Fonda, meanwhile, help lead the assault on Valentine’s Day in society at large. As David Horowitz has documented, Fonda has led the campaign to transform this special day into “V-Day” (“Violence against Women Day”) — which is, when it all comes down to it, a day of hate, featuring a mass indictment of men.
So what exactly is transpiring here? What explains this hatred of Valentine’s Day by leftist feminists and Islamists? And how and why does it serve as the sacred bond that brings the Left and Islam together into its feast of hate?
The core issue at the foundation of this phenomenon is that Islam and the Left both revile the notion of private love, a non-tangible and divine entity that draws individuals to each other and, therefore, distracts them from submitting themselves to a secular deity.
The highest objective of both Islam and the Left is clear: to shatter the sacred intimacy that a man and a woman can share with one another, for such a bond is inaccessible to the order. History, therefore, demonstrates how Islam, like Communism, wages a ferocious war on any kind of private and unregulated love. In the case of Islam, the reality is epitomized in its monstrous structures of gender apartheid and the terror that keeps it in place. As we are well aware, female sexuality and freedom are demonized and, therefore, forced veiling, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, honor killings and other misogynist monstrosities become mandatory parts of the sadistic paradigm.
The puritanical nature of totalist systems (whether Fascist, Communist, or Islamic) is another manifestation of this phenomenon. In Stalinist Russia, sexual pleasure was portrayed as unsocialist and counter-revolutionary. More recent Communist societies have also waged war on sexuality — a war that Islam, as we know, wages with similar ferocity. These totalist structures cannot survive in environments filled with love-seeking individuals who prioritize their own individual agency and devotion to other individual human beings over the collective and the state. Because leftist believers, deep down, viscerally hate the notion and reality of personal love and “the couple,” they champion the enforcement of totalitarian puritanism by the despotic regimes they worship.
The famous twentieth-century novels of dystopia, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, all powerfully depict totalitarian society’s assault on the realm of personal love in its violent attempt to dehumanize human beings and completely subject them to its rule. In Zamyatin’s We, the earliest of the three novels, the despotic regime keeps human beings in line by giving them license for regulated sexual promiscuity, while private love is illegal. The hero breaks the rules with a woman who seduces him — not only into forbidden love but also into a counterrevolutionary struggle. In the end, the totality forces the hero, like the rest of the world’s population, to undergo the Great Operation, which annihilates the part of the brain that gives life to passion and imagination, and therefore spawns the potential for love. In Orwell’s 1984, the main character ends up being tortured and broken at the Ministry of Truth for having engaged in the outlawed behavior of unregulated love. In Huxley’s Brave New World, promiscuity is encouraged — everyone has sex with everyone else under regime rules, but no one is allowed to make a deep and independent private connection.
Yet as these novels demonstrate, no tyranny’s attempt to turn human beings into obedient robots can fully succeed. There is always someone who has doubts, who is uncomfortable, and who questions the secular deity — even though it would be safer for him to conform like everyone else. The desire that therefore overcomes the instinct for self-preservation is erotic passion. And that is why love presents such a threat to the totalitarian order: it dares to serve itself. It is a force more powerful than the all-pervading fear that a totalitarian order needs to impose in order to survive. Leftist and Muslim social engineers, therefore, in their twisted and human-hating imaginations, believe that the road toward earthly redemption (under a classless society or Sharia) stands a chance only if private love and affection is purged from the human condition.
This is exactly why, forty years ago, as David Horowitz and Peter Collier demonstrate in Destructive Generation, the Weather Underground not only waged war against American society through violence and mayhem, but also waged war on private love within its own ranks. Bill Ayers, one of the leading terrorists in the group, argued in a speech defending the campaign:
Any notion that people can have responsibility for one person, that they can have that ‘out’ — we have to destroy that notion in order to build a collective; we have to destroy all ‘outs,’ to destroy the notion that people can lean on one person and not be responsible to the entire collective.
Thus, the Weather Underground destroyed any signs of monogamy within its ranks and forced couples, some of whom had been together for years, to admit their “political error” and split apart. Like their icon Margaret Mead, they fought the notions of romantic love, jealousy, and other “oppressive” manifestations of one-on-one intimacy and commitment. This was followed by forced group sex and “national orgies,” whose main objective was to crush the spirit of individualism. This constituted an eerie replay of the sexual promiscuity that was encouraged (while private love was forbidden) in We, 1984, and Brave New World.
It becomes completely understandable, therefore, why leftist believers were so inspired by the tyrannies in the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, North Vietnam and many other communist countries. As sociologist Paul Hollander has documented in his classic Political Pilgrims, fellow travelers were especially enthralled with the desexualized dress that the Maoist regime imposed on its citizens. This at once satisfied the leftist’s yearning for enforced sameness and the imperative of erasing attractions between private citizens. As I have demonstrated in United in Hate, the Maoists’ unisex clothing finds its parallel in fundamentalist Islam’s mandate for shapeless coverings to be worn by both males and females. The collective “uniform” symbolizes submission to a higher entity and frustrates individual expression, mutual physical attraction, and private connection and affection. And so, once again, the Western leftist remains not only uncritical, but completely supportive of — and enthralled in — this form of totalitarian puritanism.
This is precisely why leftist feminists today do not condemn the forced veiling of women in the Islamic world; because they support everything that forced veiling is and engenders. It should be no surprise, therefore, what solution Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Unni Wikan, has come up with for the high incidence of Muslims raping Norwegian women: the rapists must not be punished, but Norwegian women must veil themselves.
Valentine’s Day is a “shameful day” for the Muslim world and for the Left. It is shameful because private love is considered obscene, since it threatens the highest of values: the need for a totalitarian order to attract the complete and undivided attention, allegiance and veneration of every citizen. Love serves as the most lethal threat to the tyrants seeking to build Sharia and a classless utopia on earth, and so these tyrants yearn for the annihilation of every ingredient in man that smacks of anything that it means to be human.
And so perhaps it is precisely on reflecting on Valentine’s Day that we are reminded of the hope that we can realistically have in our battle with the ugly and pernicious Unholy Alliance that seeks to destroy our civilization.
This day reminds us that we have a weapon, the most powerful arsenal on the face of the earth, in front of which despots and terrorists quiver and shake, and sprint from in horror into the shadows of darkness, desperately avoiding its piercing light.
That arsenal is love.
And no Maoist Red Guard or Saudi Islamo-Fascist cop ever stamped it out — no matter how much they beat and tortured their victims. And no ISIS Jihadist or Feminazi will ever succeed in suffocating it, no matter how ferociously they lust to disinfect man of who and what he is.
Love will prevail.
Long Live Valentine’s Day.
E T says
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY EVERYONE.
Ratko Mladic says
‘phone home.
mortimer says
And Happy Valentine’s Day to Jane Fonda too. (We think you’re horribly mistaken, Jane.)
I think what the world needs now is MORE LOVE expressed to our neighbors.
Love thy neighbor.
Crusades Were Right says
Dude, don’t (h)annoy Jane! lol
alan fry says
jane fonda does not have that opinion about valentines day, nor does she have that opinion regarding the enslavemant of muslim women, why does spencer write this rubbish
william carr says
I think the author is Jamie Glazov. As far as it being a ‘sacred day’ I am sure it is mainly sacred to business people as it is yet another day to extract money from people’s pockets. When I was growing up even in the fifties and sixties VD (no pun intended) was barely noticeable. Then business spotted an opportunity to make lots of profit. like they invented Fathers’ Day, Mothers’ Day and so on. k’ching k’ching k’ching.
gravenimage says
What did Jamie Glazov say above that is not true?
gravenimage says
❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone who celebrates the freedom to love! ❤️
Rufolino says
Unfortunate!y there are plenty of people in the West who think love between two people (some of them) is “indecent”.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Authentic love is always something precious, valuable, and to be respected.
gravenimage says
Who in the West is doing anything like what is going on in the Muslim world to crush love? How do we live in glass houses?
Ratko Mladic says
Frankly, I couldn’t care less what any islamist thinks or thinks they believe. Any person or organisation that involves itself in censorship of any kind is not welcome on this planet and should be eradicated back to the stone age and, where possible, further.
Jayell says
I have never celebrated Valentine’s day, but that’s because I am a miserable so-and-so. So what exactly is the muslims’ gripe with it, apart from the fact that it apparently relates to a Christian saint and is part of the established western culture? Or maybe it’s something to do with the fact that it also relates to healthy, respectful relationships between the genders? I presume muslims can’t handle that.
mortimer says
Jayell, please LEARN SOMETHING about the MOTIVE of Islam … to love Muslims and hate kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’ … AL WALAA WAL BARAA is Islam’s motive.
http://westindanger.com/wb/walaa-baraa.html
mortimer says
Many thanks to Dr. Glazov for his short philosophical exposé of the similar mindset of Islam and neo-Marxism … the urge for totalitarian control of everyone’s private lives.
gravenimage says
Jayell, part of our freedoms is that no one has to celebrate any holiday if they don’t want to.
Muslims hate Valentine’s Day for all sorts of reasons–including its (rather tenuous) link to Christianity, and the fact that it is a Western holiday.
But the main reason Muslims hate it is because it celebrates freely-chosen, romantic love–something that is anathema to Islam.
william carr says
VD is about unmarried people of the opposite sex lusting after each other which is big taboo in Islam. Even engaged people are not allowed to show physical affection ie touching. Of course when a Muslim man has lust for non Muslim women it is a whole different matter
gravenimage says
Muslims even hate displays of affection between married couples.
Rarely says
Perhaps it’s time to resurrect Sadie Hawkins Day. Where is Al Capp when we need him?
Happy Valentine’s Day to all who have a special person in their life.
elee says
How can one single nasty cult be so wrong about so any things? Ignore the bastards & celebrate.
mortimer says
elee, Islam is based on Mohammed’s psychological problems. He was a controlaholic, a narcissist and a sadist.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
Concise and accurate. My compliments.
Michael Copeland says
NO VALENTINE’S DAY IN ISLAM
No Valentine’s Day in Islam:
It’s decried as a Western invention.
No loving, no kissing, no charm,
No allowance for choice or intention.
A girl is quite owned by her father,
And has to submit to his vision.
It matters not what she would rather,
She’ll be traded or sold: his decision.
Should she object or refuse,
Then violence will greet her defiance.
The mosque will help force him to choose
What method to use for compliance.
Wellington says
Excellent. Kudos.
gravenimage says
Good piece, Michael.
And you make an important point re Islamic marriage–that is, “Nikah”. Nikah literally means “sexual intercourse”–there is nothing about love, union, or companionship here–just the question of whether sex is “lawful” or not.
The Nikah contract is not between fiances at all–it is between the woman or girl’s current owner–usually the father–and the Muslim who wants to essentially buy her. He pays a bride price to the “Mehram” and has the right to have sex with her thereafter.
Here’s Bukhari on marriage in Islam:
The Prophet said, “the stipulation most entitled to be abided by are those which are given the right to enjoy the (woman’s) private parts (i.e., the stipulation of the marriage contract) in other words, the most imporant thing a woman brings to marriage is between her legs”.
It would be hard to imagine anything grimmer or more reductive.
John Paré says
Makes perfect sense. Jehovah God is a god of love, peace, righteousness and truth. The Islamic god is a god of hate, destruction, self-righteousness and deceit. The celebration of love has no place in Islam. They are quick to point out that love in Western society has been demoralized into lasciviousness yet adhere to the Islamic belief that it is lawful to beat their own wives or kill their own daughters.
somehistory says
Yes, the Bible says that “God is Love,” that “love never fails,” and “nothing can separate us from God’s love.”
“Faith, hope, love, and the greatest of these is love.” We were created by the “God of love,” to “love one another.”
moslims don’t know love, show love, understand love, feel love, as they only know, show, understand, and feel hate. And they desire that everyone else on earth be as miserable as they are.
FYI says
al LAH the pagan ARAB god of islam MISSED..
The Golden Rule
The Ist Chief Commandment of God;Love of God Deut: 6 4-9
The 2nd Chief commandment of God:Lev 19:18 “Love thy neighbor”
How,can muslims kindly explain to us,is that possible?
But then allah is the champion deceiver k3:54 and muslims cannot figure THAT out.
muslims don’t get Logic.
Consider:
If allah claims he wrote the Bible which he confirms as TRUE{k3:3} at the time the koran was written down and given that all these things listed{the Golden Rule ,the 2 chief commandments=”the Whole of the law” according to Jesus Matthew 22 v 37-40}are in the Bible{which remember,allah says is TRUE} THEN
WHY are they missing in islam?
WHERE is the Golden Rule,the 2nd Chief Commandment in islam?
HOW could allah{HINT: the champion deceiver} have left these things out?
If the koran contradicts and denies what was revealed in the Bible{which allah confirms as TRUE k3;3} at the time the koran was written down then that means it is the koran that is in ERROR!
islam does not satisfy the 2 chief commandments of God and has no concept of a Golden Rule.
mortimer says
Response to FYI : I disagree. Muslims in fact DO understand logic, but they fail to apply it to Islam.
To apply logic to Allah and to Mohammed would refute them and that would be blasphemy.
Muslims use logic to refute those who propose any claim that contradicts Islam, but they do not apply the same logic to Islam.
Wellington says
Seconded, somehistory. Islam knows nothing about love, whether love of your neighbor, love of your spouse, love of God, et al.
Islam is devoid of love and any Muslim “exhibiting such” is going against the ruinous emotional dictates of Islam. The idiotic antipathy to Valentine’s Day by Mo’s deluded followers merely serves as one example of this twisted thinking.
Islam is rooted in power, submission, domination, people knowing their place in life, blah, blah, blah—and of course, per the Ayatollah Khomeini, no fun either.
Islam’s greatest menace is its opposition to liberty. But coming in a close second is its opposition to love. Yeah, this is how sick Islam truly is and I know that you, somehistory, know this. Too bad far more don’t know this by now.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Islam’s greatest menace is its opposition to liberty. But coming in a close second is its opposition to love.”
Yes, sick indeed.
islam’s opposition to love is truly sick – but also very sad…
mortimer says
Wellington said: Islam’s second menace is ‘its opposition to love’.
Opposition to love … the promotion of hate is THE MOTIVE BEHIND the first menace Wellington mentions.
BARAA (hatred directed by Muslims against the kafir) is the MOTIVE of all Islam.
If you master the teaching of AL WALAA WAL BARAA, you will understand the motive of ALL of Islam.
gravenimage says
So true, Somehistory. Any Muslim who has shown love has done so in contradiction to the dictats of their vicious, loveless creed.
alan fry says
you write “The Bible says” muslims write “The Koran says” The whole lot of you are part of the problem by believing in this stuff, all religion is there to control people. Not too long ago people were being burnt alive by christianity, were tortured into converting to catholicism, the catholic church is full of paedaphiles. Until people throw off the chains of religion these problems will continue. THERE IS NO GOD, ALLAH, JEHOVAH
FYI says
I used to be an ardent atheist.
I understand exactly where you are coming from.
It is true that religion is often used to control people;I don’t dispute that. I am not in any church and I am not particularly a fan of organized religion.I oppose theocracies and ANY religion interfering in anybody’s right to be free.
I have read both books independently.
Even if you are an atheist you STILL need to know the differences between the core teachings of religions.After religious zealots,militant atheists come a close second in my personal experience ,for intolerance and irrational obsession.
ALL religions are not the same.
You can be a reasonable and tolerant atheist which is fine by me or an unreasonable and intolerant militant atheist:I got fed up with militant atheists with their misuse of Science,ignorance of Philosophy and weird obsession with trying to get rid of the idea God{which is NOT a rational pursuit:look what happened to Nietzsche!}
And I hate to break it to you about the “God Delusion” but if reason was given to you {of necessity} so you could have free will,then if you think it is all delusion,all you have done is used your God-given reason to delude and convince yourself which means you misused your Reason.Pretending it is all some delusion doesn’t solve the problem.I am grateful to Richard Dawkins,the most God-obsessed man on the planet.,for showing me the way out of atheism.
If you are an atheist/agnostic/humanist,that’s fine, you need to know that islam does not tolerate your non-belief and atheists are persecuted in islamic countries ….and jihadism is a threat to all non-muslims regardless of your belief or non-belief
Wellington says
alan fry: Be careful what you wish for because you might get it. I personally am an agnostic, not religious at all, but among major religions, with Islam being the exception, I think societies in general are better off with one of them than with no religion at all. Benjamin Franklin, himself a skeptic (he did not think Jesus divine, nor did Thomas Jefferson, but he did assume there was some kind of higher power), opined wisely I would contend that if man is bad with religion imagine what he’d be without it. The history of the twentieth century bitterly proves Franklin’s point.
As for Christians acting badly, when they did so they were violating the tenets of their religion while when Muslims act badly they are so very often FULFILLING tenets of their faith. So, there is no comparison between Christianity and Islam. Surely you would admit that the world would be much better off if every Muslim woke up tomorrow a devout Christian. The other way around would make it almost certain that the world would descend into the darkest age of all time in man’s history.
gravenimage says
Alan, your implication that religions are all the same is mistaken. You can say that the Bible is false here; try saying that about the Qur’an in Dar-al-Islam.
Westman says
Bravo!, Jamie. Give Anni a hug for us.
In addition to the mind-numbing constraints of Islam’s ideology, the restaint on personal love and the second class status of its women are equally responsible for the poor economies and vulnerable condition of oil-poor Muslim nations.
Personal love has made the Free West great by providing incentive to produce for loved ones. The EU will collapse because its main economic power-houses chose to replace the love for children, and procreating them, with open borders to a culture that exalts men who regard women and children as material possessions. Sad.
I’m very grateful for a loving companion who makes it all worthwhile. Happy Valentine’s Day to all, and if alone today, best wishes for a more love-filled future.
gravenimage says
Excellent post, Westman.
No Muzzies Here says
In the Muslim world, sex is for making babies to populate the Earth with Muslims. In the Christian world of today, sex is for fun, and babies are a rare outcome of the sex.
James Lincoln says
No Muzzies Here,
True enough.
I wonder what percentage of babies born in the USA are conceived because the parents had a little too much wine with dinner…
Paul Wheeler says
Normative Christianity says that sex is for reproduction. That would be Roman Catholicism. Heretics and their descendants posit sex for pleasure with conception as a sometimes regrettable result. Even the “Puritans” allowed sex for fun, not necessarily for procreation.
I think someone once said that Richard Dawkins and the Church agree that sex is for reproduction and no other purpose, and that that idea was the only thing on which they agreed.
gravenimage says
There is much more to love in Christianity than just reproduction. Here are just a few Biblical verses:
Song of Solomon 8:6-7: “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it…”
Ephesians 4:2-3: “With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
Ephesians 5:25: “For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-5: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”
Romans 12:10: “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.”
There are many more.
Don Gaetano says
Now that gi, is a most accurate, concise and powerful look into biblical love. And you are correct…there are many more. I occasionally think of the amount of charitable organizations on this planet and the staggering amount of Christian motivated good deeds throughout the centuries – mostly unreported – going on quietly in the lives of faithful Christians and Jews, and setting the example for the secular orgs.
Even in ancient Rome a letter was found which was a Roman leader’s complaint that Christians, were picking up abandoned Roman babies and even caring for Roman sick people….more than the Romans themselves. (Heard that in a teaching from Ligonier Ministries, the late Dr RC Sproul some years ago, quote not exact but close.)
The world would be a cold place without Judeo-Christian principles.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Don–agreed.
Wellington says
Muslimthink and Leftthink allied once again. No surprise.
Islam and modern Western Leftism are both totalitarian in structure and ideology, and in addition to hating individual freedom they hate both joy and love. Some Muslims and some Leftists may “engage” in joy and love but when they do so they are violating the dictates of their respective warped belief system. And ideology counts above all and never the non-implementation by adherents to an ideology of all that ideology’s positions.
Put another way and specifically, the current regime ruling Iran with Ayatollah Khamenei as an example, and the present clowns predominating in Hollywood with Jane Fonda as an example, have a great deal in common. Hatred of Valentine’s Day is merely the tip of an ideological, totalitarian iceberg both of these groups of reprobates share.
Ayatollah Khamenei. Jane Fonda. Neither good for humanity, for common sense, for freedom, for Valentine’s Day.
E T says
I don’t care what Hanoi Hanna says, she is long past her best before date. Happy Valentines Day to Wellington. I will toast you with a glass of wine and if Allah doesn’t like it…well, well, well…
Wellington says
Thanks for that intended libation, E T. And I will toast you with a Yuengling Porter, which I’m fetchin’ right after I finish this communication to you.
And yes indeed, if Allah doesn’t like all this then I say shove it up Allah’s cosmic ass. On this clearly diplomatic note (who could doubt it?), I bid you good-bye for now.
James Lincoln says
Wellington, you’ve perked my interest.
I feel like I’m behind the curve, I’ve never actually had a Yuengling Porter – but I will…
gravenimage says
Good posts, Wellington.
Here’s a typical screed against Valentine’s Day, from the aptly named “Elite Daily”:
“…Why, when we saw exactly how our parents turned out, are we pretending that monogamy is even an option? Why, in a generation full of revolutionaries and free thinkers, are we still allowing this holiday to exist? Why can’t we tell Hallmark and all the parent corporations and subsidiaries to f*ck off?…”
https://www.elitedaily.com/life/culture/the-harsh-reality-behind-valentines-day-and-why-we-dont-want-to-face-it
This is hardly the worst I’ve seen, though. And I doubt that someone like this would be very happy if the holiday could be completely crushed, either.
Wellington says
Thanks, gravenimage.
What rot the Left spews. No wonder it’s so easy for Lefties to be allies with Muzzies.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Maybe Jane Fonda should just “pull out all the stops” and go full muslima.
Especially with all those new “high-fashion” hijabs…
gravenimage says
Hating Valentine’s Day
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*Fine* piece by Jamie Glazov–thank you!
There is no love in Islam–and little in the hard left, either.
In fact, the ability of people to decide whom to love, and whom to marry, has been one of the greatest revolutions in personal freedom in the history of the world, away from arranged and forced marriages. This latter is the *norm* in the Muslim world.
I am so glad that my beloved husband and I were able to find each other. We plan to celebrate each other and our thirty-years-plus marriage tonight.
Don Gaetano says
Thanks Jamie. I was getting a bit worn from all the examples in the article but thankfully stuck with it and learned quite a bit from your knowledge of the dystopian books. 70 yr old carpenter here and getting a late life education so far behind, not having read those yet. Eye opening conclusion to the article.
Thankfully I committed to Christianity in the early 70’s and became a lifelong reader of scripture and received the benefits. Read S&S by Raymond I, working through History of Jihad and the Gulag. Road to Wigan Pier was an interesting though somewhat repetitive read, I skimmed some of the redundant examples in that one.
I am not skimming the Gulag, it is an amazing work.
I intend to read Jihadist Psychopath. Thankfully semi-retired so have the time to be reading 2-3 books simultaneously. All the reading is helping me make the case for our cause to the younger and even older friends who are unaware of the near and present dangers. I’m in Massachusetts so you can imagine the difficulty.
Thanks again.
gravenimage says
This is an important book from Jamie Glazov.
OLD GUY says
Dam I almost totally forgot about Jane “Hanoi” Fonda one of the last people I want to remember. Is she still living in America, thought she might have moved to a communist country by now. She is diffidently not on my Valentine card list.
HAPPY VALENTINE DAY to all ROMANTICS and LOVERS. Love is always better the HATE!
Alan Lewis says
I agree with this news post about Valentine’s Day. Except I do not agree with Jane Fonda being in the picture, has she said anything against Valentine’s day or against human romantic love.
IslamKills says
True Christian love
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/us/montana-child-torture/index.html
gravenimage says
This is a terrible case.
But there is no indication that this boy was abused in the name of Christianity–in fact, there is no indication that the boy’s family is Christian to begin with.
And note that this child’s abusers are being investigated, and this will likely lead to charges–so any implication that either authorities or the general public is applauding this child’s death is utterly false.
So why is “IslamKills” posting this here at all?
Because despite his dishonest username, he is a thorough-going apologist for the ugliness of Islam, and constantly hopes to distract from it.
Does “IslamKills” actually have a problem with the crushing of love in the Muslim world–which not only involves banning Valentine’s Day but also includes child marriage, forced marriage, polygamy, wife beating, “Honor Killing”, and stoning women to death.
Not so he says.
DazzleMe says
“HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO ALL CHRISTIAN AMERICANS”