Thursday, 11 July 2013 23:17
David Solway, Canadian poet and astute political analyst, has written an essay [http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-solway/the-question-of-islamic-reform]covering both sides of the argument and convincingly come down on the unreformable side.
This has huge foreign policy implications. Cleave to the reformist position and a Chamberlainesque policy of accommodation and appeasement makes sense - the current policy of the Obama administration. It fosters the idea that the Islamists can be won over with understanding and respect and will temper their anti-West aggression. Cleave to the unreformable position and Islam is an implacable enemy which must be given no quarter militarily or economically. It must be treated as a pseudo-religion and condemned as a fascist, repressive, anti-humanistic ideology of hate and bigotry which enforces the second class status of women and is opposed to music and the arts. It is a theo-fascist ideology which endorses, subterfuge, deceit, infiltration and terrorism to gain dominance.
Solway is an incisive, brilliant analyst engaged in nothing less than saving Western civilization from choking on it's own mindless, pathological idée fixe of tolerance as an uber-value.
