THE MUSLIM MENACE

                                                      THE MUSLIM MENACE

     My computer screen is presenting an increasing number of frightening essays, warning of the dire

threats of Muslim migrations into our Western societies with their proliferation of mosques, Sharia Law,

subversion of human rights, and terrorism with the aim of ultimate Islamic control. Not a great deal

different from the rise of Christianity after Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan in 313, but Christianity

has now lost most of its ability to create large-scale aggression in its name, necessitating other excuses.

Muslims in Palestine can still give us a long list of cruel current excesses by followers of Judaism but that

lacks the same publicity.

     Islam, established about 400 years after Christianity, has yet to have its Reformation so does have its

dangers, but to whom? Most battle-killed Christians were killed by other Christians who have created

3,400 distinct religious variants. Most Muslims are killed by other Muslims. Islam has 3 major streams

with 26 variants and are still their own worst enemy. How significant a threat are they to us? A forerunner

of alarmists, Winston Churchill in 1899 decried how Islam paralyses society. He was right. Islam today

cannot unite militarily. And for them, terror weapons like carrier groups, stealth bombers, or drones,

remain not affordable, so they have perfected cheaper terror weapons like suicide bombers and threats that

force us to curtail liberties, restrict travel, close embassies, and harm economies. It is a continuation of

the ‘Many’ being brainwashed and controlled by the ‘Few’ who go by many names: Extremists, priests,

ayatollahs, shamans, politicians, CEOs.

     Humans, are born (drafted?) into a cruel and uncaring world where, in order to survive, most living

things have to eat other living things. It is a world that has always been over-populated, necessitating

competition for available arable land, water, food, preferred climate, and shelter, and the ability to evolve

and organize to meet the challenges. Although humans have made astounding advances, no life form, to

our knowledge, has evolved the ability to understand who, when, how, what and why we all are.

Muslim science was the world’s best under the Abbasid dynasty, 750-1258 AD, that united most of the

Mediterranean. Today with 20% of world population Muslims generate 5% of its science. Our agnostic

Western scientists tell us that all life is one and that cells at the quantum level with a watery medium

communicate with, and influence, other cells even at long distances. Thousands of experiments prove

them right.

     Most humans, always bewildered, have needed myths to cling to. For some 25 thousands years, for

which we have artifacts, we know we worshipped female gods. Animism, still practiced by 40% of the

world, is even older. For us Westerners, Abraham and his small group from Ur (Iraq) changed all this

when they wandered, at their god’s call, south to infiltrate and eventually control in Canaan an Israeli

Semitic tribe forcing them to vilify their female gods and accept Yaweh, a god of war and vengeance. Our

once-supreme god, Ashtoreth, became Eve on whom we can blame our present predicament. This led to

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with female gods having nearly all retired by 500 A.D. Abraham is very

roughly dated to about 2000 BC. Divine intervention allowed his wife, Sarah, to give birth at age 99 and

for him to live at least 175 years. The Torah, Bible, and Ou’ran were all written by selected humans

claiming divine inspiration. Nature’s lesson that Force Begets Force has never been learned by any of

them.

     Today, Christianity is in decline while Islam is growing. Why, I fail to fathom. The percentages of

Muslims in selected countries are: Canada 3.2 (5% in Toronto), USA 2.1, France 1.0, Germany 3.2, Israel

14.1, Palestine 98, Italy 1.5, Mexico 0.1, Sweden 1.7, Turkey 98.3, UK 4.8. Iran, 99% Muslim, has one

of the lowest mosque-attendance records. Hardly the united thousands-strong barbarian armies that

destroyed Rome. Muslim Immigrants tend to congregate in run-down, cheaper areas, and have more

children to worsen the poverty. Did not other immigrants experience similar conditions, especially the

Irish, Jews, Catholics, Italians, Portugese, African, and Asian groups? By the third generation they had

acquired the appearance, pronunciation, and education to drift away and join the mainstream while the

ethnic issue passed to a new group. There are encouraging signs of Muslims doing the same, The 6,000

Indian Muslims who had settled in Uganda only to be kicked out in 1972 by Idi Amin and accepted by

Canada have become model, and highly productive, loyal citizens. Most Muslims now live in crowded

Africa and Asia. High bloodletting persists in too many of these Islamic countries.

     What to do about it? First off, we North Americans need to realize that we are already over-populated.

Sure, we have lots of empty space but only 5% of Canada and 19% of the USA is arable and climatic

change is playing havoc with much of that. Geography has permitted us to evolve a high standard of living

accompanied by a falling birthrate, so, perhaps, we do need a steady, but limited, stream of immigrants

who should have to pass courses explaining our culture and human -rights concerns. We can afford to be

selective. The main remedy to threats lies in the home countries. We do have a good record of

humanitarian and educational work in poor countries to improve their lives but it lacks co-ordination,

collective funding, and protection of local pride. We also have a good record of exploiting their resources

causing much of their resentment towards us.

     We have no shortages of greater threats: climate change bringing fires, floods, droughts, and

environmental damages, growing rich-poor gaps, dysfunctional government, 1,360 armed US radical

militias, greed of individuals and corporations failing to accept their fair share of taxes and contributions

to the nation’s welfare, and so on and on. Can Muslim immigrants match these threats?

     Yes, there has been a large increase in the number of mosques in western countries, 80% run by

extremists and too many financed by Saudi Arabia. Only 19% of these mosques have no texts promoting

violence, but mosque attendance is only one third of our low Christian church attendance. It would appear

most Muslims avoid extremists. After a year in Western countries the Muslim birthrate has fallen to just

over 3 per woman, approaching our rate of just under 2. In Canada the attempt by some Muslims to have

Sharia Law made legal for Muslims was shot down by Muslim community groups.

     If the extremist fraction of Muslim immigrants become more that a minor problem they are much easier

to deal with than the major problems to which we are giving much too little attention