THOUGHTS ABOVE THE RIM

DESPITE ALL THE NATIONAL TREASURE spent for the sake of others over the past sixty or so years, the inimitable West is still trying to reclaim lost ground in the culture war. We believe that the following paragraphs may very well be grounded in truth, with one exception. Oil money has allowed the frothing deeply-entrenched Jew-hatred of Islam to once again rise to the top of their poisoned cup. Russia may have poured gasoline on the festering resentment, but they didn't invent it.

"In 1972, the Kremlin decided to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the U.S. As KGB chairman Yuri Andropov told me, a billion adversaries could inflict far greater damage on America than could a few millions. We needed to instill a Nazi-style hatred for the Jews throughout the Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel and its main supporter, the United States. No one within the American/Zionist sphere of influence should any longer feel safe.

"According to Andropov, the Islamic world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. Islamic anti-Semitism ran deep. The Muslims had a taste for nationalism, jingoism, and victimology. Their illiterate, oppressed mobs could be whipped up to a fever pitch."

Read it all in the National Review article Russian Footprints, authored by former Soviet General Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking intelligence officer to have defected from the former Soviet bloc.

In a simple twist of fate, some pundits think that France will be the first European country in modern times to be overwhelmed by Muslims due to her very large, violent immigrant population and effeminate native populace. Others point to the Netherlands, from which native Dutch people are beginning to flee in the face of hostile Islam among the immigrants in that densely-populated nation. But Russia—a huge nation with vast natural resources, thousands of nuclear warheads, and until recently a global superpower—may be the first to capitulate to Muslim sensibilities. This seems possible even though Russia suffers little from those suicidal bouts of uncritical tolerance and multiculturalism that afflicts Western Europeans.

In 2015, less than ten years from now, Muslims could make up a majority of the Russian military. Military service is compulsory for young Russian men, though only 10% actually serve due to college deferments, bribes to escape duty, and the like. Given the famously brutal Russian military, perhaps avoiding military service is a forgivable trait. But will the generals be able to avoid having a Muslim military if most young men who haven't fled Russia are Muslim? Will such a military operate effectively given the fury that many domestic Muslims feel toward the Russian military's tactics in the Muslim region of Chechnya? What if other Muslim regions of Russia—some of which contain huge oil reserves—rebel against Moscow? Will Muslim soldiers fight and kill to keep them part of the Russian motherland?

With birthrates, death rates, and emigration rates the way they are now, it is highly plausible that Russia could be majority Muslim by 2040. And there are other opinions.

Writes Bill Abbott, sparing few feelings, "The demographic implosion of the West is due to feminism and women's refusal to accept the role either God or nature (depending on one's belief) has given them. The acceptance of this responsibility by most Muslim women is what will win for Islam in the end. In no other species, does the female not understand that continuation and survival of the group is her responsibility and, for the most part, hers alone. Among some homo sapiens, selfishness reigns. It has been said that a society that sends its daughters, sisters and even mothers into harms way will not long survive. I wonder if it even deserves to survive."

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