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- The Muslim World: A World Where The Bad Guy Won
From Bosch Fawstin: “The Muslim world” is a world where the bad guy won. It spends most of its time telling itself it’s good while damning the civilized world as evil, with full faith and no reason. But the comparative standard is getting to be...
- The Unavenged
From my intro to ProPiganda: "Though I was born into a Muslim family, I became interested in Islam only after 9/11/01, when 19 Muslims murdered 2,996 human beings in the name of Islam. Those who always gave a damn for the truth did their homework and...
- Still No Substitute For Victory
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch has posted John Lewis' (professor of history at Ashland University) reply to criticism of his essay "No Substitute for Victory." The two main objections that Lewis responds to are whether it is possible to seperate Islam...
- Civilization Vs. Tribalism
M. Simon:The war against Islamofascism is not the first time we in America have faced enemies who loved death more than life. Honor more than victory. We have faced such enemies every time we have faced one of the oldest human cultures on earth. Tribalism.The...
- The Morality Of Rational Self-interest.
Onkar Ghate at Capitalism Magazine has a fascinating article on what is rotten at the core of the West - the wrong definition for morality. Love Thy Enemy: The Twilight of Freedom of Speech I particular liked his summary below, but the whole article is...
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Fighting For Liberty without Apologies
Rebecca West argues that we are deluded if we think we can win a war by treating a savage enemy as if they were civilized. But she thinks we are diminished because of it. John Lewis says otherwise:
"Ms. West sees the central judgment that is needed to win a defensive war: that our people—our soldiers in particular—are worth more than savages and the "civilians" hiding them. The enemy of rational judgment, and a paralyzing moral premise, is egalitarianism—the idea that all people, cultures, and ideas are equal in value. Ms. West rails against this, but then—unfortunately, sadly, tragically—accepts this same premise herself. ... [she says] 'if the civilized society is to prevail over the barbarous one, it will necessarily and tragically be degraded by the experience as a vital cost of victory'"
Lewis offers an alternative view:
"There is an alternative, a morality that truly values human life, and pours its outrage and its weapons against the enemies of human life; it is called rational egoism. According to this code, acting to win a defensive war by any means necessary is a sublimely moral act—not a compromise with morality that is needed to remain alive, and not an act of debasing civilization in order to save it. It is morally good to destroy those who would start a global jihad to enslave millions to a dark-age theocracy, and to do so with the least possible risk to our own, valuable, people."
Read the whole article here and decide for yourself.
- The Muslim World: A World Where The Bad Guy Won
From Bosch Fawstin: “The Muslim world” is a world where the bad guy won. It spends most of its time telling itself it’s good while damning the civilized world as evil, with full faith and no reason. But the comparative standard is getting to be...
- The Unavenged
From my intro to ProPiganda: "Though I was born into a Muslim family, I became interested in Islam only after 9/11/01, when 19 Muslims murdered 2,996 human beings in the name of Islam. Those who always gave a damn for the truth did their homework and...
- Still No Substitute For Victory
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch has posted John Lewis' (professor of history at Ashland University) reply to criticism of his essay "No Substitute for Victory." The two main objections that Lewis responds to are whether it is possible to seperate Islam...
- Civilization Vs. Tribalism
M. Simon:The war against Islamofascism is not the first time we in America have faced enemies who loved death more than life. Honor more than victory. We have faced such enemies every time we have faced one of the oldest human cultures on earth. Tribalism.The...
- The Morality Of Rational Self-interest.
Onkar Ghate at Capitalism Magazine has a fascinating article on what is rotten at the core of the West - the wrong definition for morality. Love Thy Enemy: The Twilight of Freedom of Speech I particular liked his summary below, but the whole article is...