Pastor Terry Jones

AS AN ATHEIST, BOTH THE Bible and the Koran has far less significance to me than, being a Darwinist, any book by Richard Dawkins. To me book burning carries nothing more than a symbolic gesture in the modern world of the printing press where any such cindered tome can be quickly resurrected. If what was being burnt however, was an unpublished original manuscript, then it would be a different matter entirely.

I can see how people of all faiths would react to Pastor Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Centre in Florida, who intends to carry out a Koran burning ceremony this Saturday in remembrance of those who were killed in New York on 9/11. But for those of no religious faith like myself, I find such protests from politicians like Hillary Clinton, somewhat contemptible.

For me, as a none believer, I am left wondering where these liberals were when Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses suffered the same fate as the Koran is about to. Those liberals who today protest at pastor Jones’s intolerance toward Islam, fled in all directions when Mr Rushdie was given the black spot by the Muslim world. No liberal, as I remember it, came to this authors’ defence for fear of being targeted.

Now many believers of all faiths will say that such an argument bares little comparison to a Holy book. Well yes, but I am an atheist and it does indeed bare comparison. This pastor has now had placed upon his shoulder by General Petraus and US oversees aid workers, any death that may occur to the US army or any aid worker following the burning.

Did Rushdie have any support from the American political and military establishment, as the Koran has been given. He certainly had no such support on this side of the pond from those liberals who believe in free speech. While, for instance, Tony Blair has a constant bodyguard protecting him, at the tax-payers expense on his travels, to the tune of £250,000 a year; Rushdie had to pay for his own protection.

Pastor Terry Jones said one thing however that did ring true. The politicians have underestimated the numbers of those Muslims living amongst us who are extremists. I believe that our political leaders are well aware through intelligence reports that the percentage of extremist Muslims living amongst us in the West is far higher than they are prepared to disclose to the public.

All political leaders in Europe and the USA are frightened of the rise of modern Islam which is why they are so panic stricken by the pastor’s interjection. When they coruscate the likes of Pastor Jones, they do so through fear of what they have allowed themselves to unleash upon the people whose trust they asked for when facing their election to office.

ISLAM IS not a passive entity. Like communism that preceded it in its attacks upon ‘decedent’ capitalism, it is a phenomenon that embraces world-wide ambitions and will not stop until it achieves its purpose. As communism was an atheistic creed, it was easy for America to unite against it. But Islam is a religion, and for America, embedded as it is in 57 varieties of the Christian faith, the threat of social disharmony is real.

Just as those building the mosque near ground zero have used America’s First Amendment to support their actions, then so has Pastor Jones. When the founding fathers wrote that part of the country’s constitution , they could ever have foresaw the role Islam is now playing in world.

Any sympathy one may have for Muslims over the Pastor Jones episode (and I hope it comes to nothing more than an episode), it wears thin when Islam seeks to emulate the communist ethic of world conquest. Our politicians in Europe and America must understand that Islam is a medieval force. It has never felt the need to succumb to any form of Reformation that Christianity went through in the 16^th century. There was no Luther in the Islamic world to divide the faith and temporize it.

ISALM IS A medieval religion that has evolved very little, despite its early and successful courtship with science. Islam managed however to destroy the culture of scientific investigation because, as with the Catholic Church at one time, scientific truth came into conflict with their particular Holy Book.

Today the West is in retreat; it lacks the ruthlessness of its enemy, indeed, denies it has one, by continually insisting that the Islamisists are merely a minority whom the majority of Muslims dissociate themselves from. This is naivety at it most deadly. It means very little in our everyday lives to act in a gullible fashion, for no one but the individual who behaves so suffers any kind of repercussion.

But we are talking about our political leaders making decisions on our behalf that have the power to either make our lives more secure and pleasurable, or scar them forever.

It is all about numbers as the Pastor made reference to in a television interview. Of course nobody (or I hope this to be the case) believes that every Muslim is an enemy of the West. All most of them want is to improve their own and their families lives and live in freedom. But the minority of those who are fighting the West is far larger in numbers than our politicians have been prepared to admit too publically.

You can see the concern written on our politician’s faces. Having allowed so many Muslims to live among us in the West, they now fear their reaction to anti-Muslim sentiment, such as that of Pastor Terry Jones.

Forty years ago Pastor Terry Jones would not have merited a single column inch in the Florida, whatever; let alone gain worldwide notoriety. It is because the West has harboured Muslims in their millions over the past two decades as part of Globalisation, that the Pastor has gained such notoriety.

If there is nothing to be concerned about, why does Europe keep refusing European entry to Turkey? I can offer a suggestion: throughout many parts of Europe, the birth rate of the indigenous populations are falling, while Muslim families who do not believe in abortion, are on the increase. As we stand at the moment we have 15 million Muslims living within Europe; while Turkey would introduce a further 80 million.

Two weeks ago Channel 4 bravely touched upon a subject that, particularly the multicultural BBC would have feared to pursue. It concerned first cousin marriages within the Pakistani community and the genetic abnormalities that are part and parcel of such an arrangement.

During the programme MPs (usually Labour) representing large Muslim communities were invited to comment upon first cousin marriages and how much such an arrangement they turn a blind eye too, cost the NHS. Only one Labour MP could be found to comment.

I proffer this as an example of what we can expect when our MP’s rely for their political careers upon a large Muslim constituency.

THE ISLAMISATION of the world is the purpose of this faith – in other words; it seeks to conquer, just as every Empire, including the British, did so in the past.

This crude, stilted and antiquated Islamic faith is now on our doorsteps; but at the moment merely knocking at our door. Will we, in Europe’s case, let it in? Well yes, if we are the British government who represents 1.5 million Muslims and think that 80 million Turkish Muslims would only add to European democracy.

Islamism is opposed to every tenet of our democratic values, but nevertheless uses them to seek power for itself. By so doing they build up a constituency that over generations will harvest great rewards for Islam. Islam is the opportunist supreme and it uses liberal society for its own advantage playing the racist card whenever challenged - this religion is

bound to succeed in a Western liberal dominated West. And what is more the charge of being racist delivers all opponents to its expansion, to either the British or European Human Rights legislation.