THE FRAGILITY OF ISLAMOFASCISM

[This is the text of a speech I am giving to the Council for National Policy at Amelia Island, Florida, Friday, February 2.]

Let me tell you a story.  In the 1980s, I spent a fair amount of time with various anti-Soviet guerrilla insurgencies in places like Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, and Afghanistan.

It was the most extraordinary experience to be with the Afghan Mujahaddin as they took on the Red Army of the Soviet Union armed at first with little more than pre-World War One bolt action rifles.

I made many friends among them as we risked our lives together.  They were, of course, all Moslems.  They never skipped their prayers, unless there was an actual battle going on.  Never once did they bug me about my religion.  Never once did it occur to me they considered me an “infidel.”

My closest friend among them was the principal aide to Burhanuddin Rabbani, leader of the largest group of Mujahaddin, known as Jamiat.  His name was Abdul Rahim.  One day, Rahim asked me if I would consider becoming a Moslem.  The question startled me and I hemmed and hawed.  “Can I tell you why I’d like you to?” he asked.  I said sure.

“It is because then we will be friends in heaven.”

It was a gesture of pure friendship.  It was the farthest thing from spreading a religion by the sword.  Rahim simply wanted our friendship to continue after we died.  It really touched me and I told him so.

But no, I didn’t become a Moslem.

It has been my good fortune to experience a great deal of the world and get to know people from close to 200 countries.  There is a common humanity shared by most folks around the globe.  The fact that there has never been a war between two genuine democracies clearly shows that most people prefer peace to war, and simply want a decent life for their families and children.

Yet as we all know, history is full of examples of people going berserk, falling victim to some frenzied hysteria.  It can be a frenzy of paranoia, such as the lunacy we are currently experiencing over “global warming.”  It can be a frenzy of greed, like the dotcom bubble or the Tulip Craze.

The worst are frenzies of criminal insanity, like the Gulag Communism of the Soviet Union, the National Socialism of Hitler’s Germany, or the barbaric imperialism of Tojo’s Japan.

An entire people like the Germans or Japanese can go criminally, murderously nuts.  Such mass criminality has to be ended by whatever means necessary.  But once the frenzy is over, the people crazed by it can become normal human beings again.

Just such a mass criminal insanity has today taken over the minds of a substantial fraction of the world’s Moslems.

The appropriate name for this phenomenon is Islamofascism, the distillation of the very worst aspects of the Islamic religion into an ideology of fascist bullying and bloodshed.

The absolute last thing we are involved in here is a “clash of civilizations.”  Our civilization is in a fight to the death with a sub-human barbarism.  With folks who believe in a Whorehouse Heaven which they can get into by blowing themselves up in order to murder women and children.  With grotesque distortions of humanity whose souls are filled with savagery and whose greatest desire is live in the 7^th century.

We often hear the prediction that our struggle with Islamofascist barbarism is going to last for so many years into the future that no one can see the end of it.

Maybe it will. Maybe it will be a war our grandchildren will be fighting when they’re our age. But no analysis of the war shows that it must be this way. It’s just a prediction, one which could turn out to be dramatically wrong. It’s entirely possible that the War on Islamofascism could be won quickly.

It was in 1984 that I gave my first speech to CNP.  It was entitled The Coming Collapse of the Soviet Union.  There are a few fellow old-timers right here who were there.  Most people back then couldn’t even imagine a world in which the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.

Yet I went on to predict something even more unimaginable — that the Soviet collapse wasn’t far off in the distant future, but that it was coming fast.

This was because, I argued, that the structure of the Soviet Empire, including the Soviet Union itself, was brittle. A brittle physical structure, like a glass, can be unchanging and unyielding — but if the right stress is placed upon it, it doesn’t slowly give or crumble, it shatters. One minute it looks like it always has, the next moment it’s in pieces.

Social structures can be brittle in the same way — which is why the result of the stress placed upon it by the Reagan Doctrine was that the Soviet Union shattered virtually overnight.

The phenomenon of Islamofascism is not a social structure — it is a psychological structure; it is not located in any physical or geographical space, but in certain people’s minds. It is thus not a political or social or economic event, it is a mental event. If we want to get rid of it, we must understand and dissect it as such.

Islamofascism is a frenzy, a mass delusion.  What all such mass delusions have in common is an incredibly intense psychological energy that is impervious to reason, reality, and morality.

That is the strength of these mass frenzies. Their weakness is that the energy, however intense, is inherently unstable — in fact, the more intense, the more unstable.  There is thus a fragility to them. They spring into a roaring existence, wreak their havoc, then vanish. They are ephemeral.

Thus if we focus our efforts on destabilizing the Islamofascist frenzy, we can get rid of fast – as fast as we got rid of the Soviet Union.

That is why Steve Baldwin and I have called for The Creation of an Anti-Islamofascism Movement targeting the psychological fragility of Islamofascists.

They have, for example, amazingly thin skins.  Like a schoolyard bully, they can dish it out but they can’t take it.  They taught us this lesson with their outrage over the Danish cartoons.  They can’t handle mockery, being made fun of.

That’s why I wrote a column in To The Point entitled Terrorism and Tiny Zibbs.  “Zibb” is Arabic slang for the male organ.  The most basic passion of radical Moslems is not hatred, hatred of infidel America – it’s fear, their fear of women, causing their obsession to veil them, control them, and treat them as sub-human.

Only men with little zibbs are afraid of women.  That’s why Osama has such a teeny tiny little zibb.

You’re laughing – and that’s just we need to do:  laugh at these bozos.  They can’t stand being laughed at – it’s their Achilles Heel.  We need to make fun of them, ridicule them, taunt them, poke holes in their thin skins endlessly and relentlessly.  Hit them where it hurts the most – their false inflated sense of phony pride.

The flip side of laughing at Islamofascists is to have zero tolerance for their bullying.  That means prosecuting not placating Flying Imams.  It means denouncing CAIR as a apologists for Islamofascist terrorism.  It mean requiring Islam to accept a new definition of the word islam, which is Arabic for submission.

The claim is that such submission means to submit to the will of Allah.  The reality is that is means submission of infidels to Moslems.  Now it must mean the submission of Islamofascist Moslems to the basic freedoms and human rights of the civilized world.

In addition to mocking their thin skins and standing up to their bullying, we need to instill doubt into fragile Islamofascist minds.  It is easy to infect a robotic unthinking mind with the mental virus of doubt.  For example:

You’ve all heard of Ayatollah Khomeini issuing a death fatwa on Salmon Rusdie for writing a book called The Satanic Verses.  It’s a lousy book that hasn’t anything to do with the great hidden scandal of Islam – just the title alone is what set Khomeini off.

The real Satanic Verses of the Koran are those of Sura, or chapter 53.  Remember that  Moslems believe every word in the Koran is the actual voice of Allah.  In verses 19-22, Allah mentions his daughters, al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat.  This mention of goddesses means polytheism, the big Islamic No-No.

So every orthodox biography of Mohammed says that he was tricked by Satan into believing Allah said this, and had to change the original version of the verses.

The terrible secret of the Satanic Verses is that if Old Mo was fooled by Beelzebub once, why maybe he was fooled in other Koranic verses, and then maybe, just maybe, the whole Koranic enterprise starts to crumble.

The scandal of the Satanic Verses provides a marvelous mental virus.  The great problem for any moderate Moslem is that the Koran is larded with verses supporting Islamofascism, in which Allah advocates slavery, thievery, beheading unbelievers and cutting their fingers off, killing apostates, on and on.

This means we can divide the Koran into two.  Published in the original classical Arabic and various language translations, the first section would be the Koran of Allah containing all the non-offensive verses compatible with civilization.  The second section would be the Koran of Satan, with all the Islamofascist verses compiled together and condemned as the words of the devil and not of god.

Mohammed was fooled more than he knew, you see, there’s lots more Satanic Verses, so neither he nor Allah can be accused of slavery and butchery.  This gives moderate Moslems an out, a way to keep their religion without having to accept all the 7^th century primitivism.

This is one example of many.  By ceasing to be defensive towards Islamofascism, by going on the offensive and targeting its vulnerabilities, its fragility, an Anti-Islamofascism Movement can put an end to this frenzy.

We cannot, of course, rid the world of Islam.  But we can destabilize the frenzy of Islamofascism, and rid the world of its bullying and terror.  Then the world’s Moslems can focus again on having a decent life for their families and children, and get along with the rest of the world.

Just as the Anti-Communism Movement won the Cold War and defeated the Soviet Union, an Anti-Islamofascism Movement can win this war.  I hope you will all join me, Steve Baldwin, Frank Gaffney, and others in doing so.  Thank you all very much.