If a man of the 1950s were suddenly introduced into Western Europe in the 2000s, he

If a man of the 1950s were suddenly introduced into Western Europe in the 2000s, he
would hardly recognise it as the same country. He would be in immediate danger of
getting mugged, carjacked or worse, because he would not have learned to live in
constant fear. He would not know that he shouldn’t go into certain parts of the city, that
his car must not only be locked but equipped with an alarm, that he dare not go to sleep
at night without locking the windows and bolting the doors – and setting the electronic
security system.

If he brought his family with him, he and his wife would probably cheerfully pack their
children off to the nearest public school. When the children came home in the afternoon
and told them they had to go through a metal detector to get in the building, had been
given some funny white powder by another kid and learned that homosexuality is normal
and good, the parents would be uncomprehending.

In the office, the man might light up a cigarette, drop a reference to the “little lady,” and
say he was happy to see the firm employing some coloured folks in important positions.
Any of those acts would earn a swift reprimand, and together they might get him fired.
When she went into the city to shop, the wife would put on a nice suit, hat, and possibly
gloves. She would not understand why people stared, and mocked.

And when the whole family sat down after dinner and turned on the television, they
would not understand how pornography from some sleazy, blank-fronted “Adults Only”
kiosk had gotten on their set.

Were they able, our 1950s family would head back to the 1950s as fast as they could,
with a gripping horror story to tell. Their story would be of a nation that had decayed and
degenerated at a fantastic pace, moving in less than a half a century from the greatest
countries on earth to Third World nations, overrun by crime, noise, drugs and dirt. The
fall of Rome was graceful by comparison.

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Why did it happen?

Over the last fifty years, Western Europe has been conquered by the same force that
earlier took over Russia, China, Germany and Italy. That force is ideology. Here, as
elsewhere, ideology has inflicted enormous damage on the traditional culture it came to
dominate, fracturing it everywhere and sweeping much of it away. In its place came fear,
and ruin. Russia will take a generation or more to recover from Communism, if it ever
can.

The ideology that has taken over Western Europe goes most commonly by the name of
“Political Correctness.” Some people see it as a joke. It is not. It is deadly serious. It
seeks to alter virtually all the rules, formal and informal, that govern relations among
people and institutions. It wants to change behaviour, thought, even the words we use.
To a significant extent, it already has. Whoever or whatever controls language also
controls thought. Who dares to speak of “ladies” now?

Just what is “Political Correctness?” Political Correctness is in fact cultural Marxism
(Cultural Communism) – Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. The
effort to translate Marxism from economics into culture did not begin with the student
rebellion of the 1960s. It goes back at least to the 1920s and the writings of the Italian
Communist Antonio Gramsci. In 1923, in Germany, a group of Marxists founded an
institute devoted to making the transition, the Institute of Social Research (later known
as the Frankfurt School). One of its founders, George Lukacs, stated its purpose as
answering the question, “Who shall save us from Western Civilisation?” The Frankfurt
School gained profound influence in European and American universities after many of its
leading lights fled and spread all over Europe and even to the United States in the 1930s
to escape National Socialism in Germany. In Western Europe it gained influence in
universities from 1945.

>He would be in immediate danger of
>getting mugged, carjacked or worse, because he would not have learned to live in
>constant fear. He would not know that he shouldn’t go into certain parts of the city,

do you have any idea what NYC was like in the 1950's?

NYC was a deprived inner city in the United States. It does not give a picture of where whites lived at the time.

I love how hilarious this OP is in that ignores that crime in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's was far, far, far higher than it is today.

tru
if only men were real ALFA's like us

Not in Europe- by then, America was already lost to cultural marxism; the subhumanity of the blacks meant rampant crime in the inner cities. Even then the rest of America was actually very safe.

Stop lying bong. Homicide rates are under 1950s levels in America. Only because people IRL don't look like fictional characters from a fucking 1950s sit-com doesn't mean you're right fucking dumbass.

Crime in "Europe" is some of the lowest in the world right now you fucking idiot.

Ironically the countries with the highest violent crime rates in the world are Brazil and Russia - two largely Christian, conservative ethno nationalist states.

This Andres Brevik's stuff.

deism.com/images/breivik-manifesto-2011.pdf

Murder maybe, but in the 1950s murder only happened between gangs in inner cities. You still haven't refuted that, at all. And I'm not just talking about murder- rape, sexual assault, paedophilia and diversity are at an alarming high.

Europe has its own full-fledged brand of negationism: a movement to deny the largescale
and long-term crimes against humanity committed by Islam. This movement is led
by Islamic apologists and Marxist academics, and followed by all the politicians,
journalists and intellectuals who call themselves secularists. Similar to the Turkish
negationism regarding the Armenian genocide, the European negationism regarding the
terrible record of Islam is fully supported by the establishment (The EU, Western
European governments). It has nearly full control of the media and dictates all state and
government parlance concerning the communal problem (more properly to be called the
Islam problem).

Its techniques are essentially the same as those of negationists elsewhere:
1. Head-on denial: The crassest form of negationism is obviously the simple denial
of the facts. This is mostly done in the form of general claims, such as: "Islam is
tolerant", "Islamic Spain was a model of multicultural harmony", "the anti-Jewish
hatred was unknown among Muslims until Zionism and anti-Semitism together
entered the Muslim world from Europe". Since it is rare that a specific crime of Islam
is brought to the public's notice, there is little occasion to come out and deny specific
crimes. Exceptions are the Armenian genocide, officially denied in Turkey and the
entire Muslim world.

fine little rant, would've made sense if you'd written it in the late 80's or early 90's.

not now. Check the crime statistics.

>Not in Europe
yes it was, crime -especially violent crime, was far more prevalent throughout Europe twenty years ago.

This kills the Sup Forums

>check the crime statistics
I have. I'm seeing far more rapes and sexual assaults than in the 1950s. I'm also seeing a dumbing down of the population due to hypersensitive and low IQ "immigrants". Your point?

loving that source you have there bud. Even then, we all know you're bullshitting. Because you're a paid shill.

This kills the shill

2. Ignoring the facts: This passive negationism is certainly the safest and the most
popular. The media and textbook-writers simply keep the vast corpus of inconvenient
testimony out of the readers' view. This includes most of the information about the
systematic slaughter, torture and enslavement of non-Muslims in historical and
present context (including Genocides and Dhimmitude), demographic developments
which show the systematic and gradual Muslim takeover of societies (Including
Kosovo, Lebanon and now in many Western European countries) and alTaqiyya/ketman
– Ummah - Quranic abrogation and Jihads importance in Islam.
Other essential facts are also ignored like Saudi Arabia’s role in spreading traditional
Islam (so called Islamic theofascism or Wahhabism which the Eurabians like to refer
to it). They have failed to inform the people of Europe that Saudi Arabia have spent
more than 87 billion USD abroad the past two decades propagating “true Islam”. The
bulk of this funding goes to the construction and operating expenses of thousands of
mosques, madrassas and Muslim cultural centers throughout the world. These Islamic
institutions are now found in every single country in the West - all over Western
Europe.

3. Minimising the facts: If the inconvenient fact is pointed out that numerous
Muslim chroniclers have reported a given massacre of unbelievers themselves, one
can posit a priori that they must have exaggerated to flatter their patron's martial
vanity - as if it is not significant enough that Muslim rulers felt flattered by being
described as mass-murderers of infidels.

Apart from minimising the absolute size of Islamic crimes, there is the popular
technique of relative minimising: make the facts look smaller by comparing them with
other, carefully selected facts. Thus, one can say that "all religions are intolerant",
which sounds plausible to many though it is patently false: in the Roman Empire only
those sects were persecuted which had political ambitions (Jews when they fought for
independence, Christians because they sought to take over the Empire and outlaw all
other religions, as they effectively did), while the others enjoyed the status of religio
licita; similarly with the Persian Empire and many other states and cultures.

Well deserved bump. Canadian mosques must burn

An oft-invoked counterweight for the charge-sheet against Islam, is the fanaticism
record of Christianity. It is indeed well-known that Christianity has been guilty of
numerous temple destructions and persecutions. But the reason for this fanaticism is
found in the common theological foundation of both religions: exclusivist prophetic
monotheism. The case against Christianity is at once a case against Islam. Moreover,
in spite of its theologically motivated tendency to intolerance, Christianity has had to
go through the experience of "live and let live" because in its formative period, it was
but one of the numerous sects in the pluralist Roman Empire.

Islam never had this experience, and in order to bring out its full potential of
fanaticism, Christianity has needed the influence of Islam on a few occasions. Thus, it
is no coincidence that Charlemagne, who defeated the Saxons by force, was the
grandson of Charles Martel, who defeated the Islamic army in Poitiers; no coincidence
either that the Teutonic knights who forcibly converted the Balts, were veterans of
the Crusades, i.e. the campaign to liberate Palestine from Islam; nor is it a
coincidence that the Spanish Inquisition emerged in a country that had needed
centuries to shake off Islamic oppression. Finally, Christianity is, by and large, facing
the facts of its own history, though it’s still struggling with the need to own up the
responsibility for these facts.

An even more general way of drowning Islamic fanaticism in relativist comparisons is
to point out that after all - every imperialistically motivated war has been less than
gentle. That may well be true, but then, we are not setting up cults for the Genghis
Khans of this world. A religion should contribute to man's transcending his natural
defects like greed and cruelty, and not sanction and glorify them.

>I'm seeing far more rapes and sexual assaults than in the 1950s
more are being being reported, but less are actually occurring. If you don't even know this, then you have no grasp of reading statistics and you're not worth my time.

your agenda shows, cheerio.

thank you my man. Ignore the paid muslim shills.

4. Whitewashing: When one cannot conceal, deny or minimise the facts, one can
still claim that on closer analysis, they are not as bad as they seem. One can call
right what is obviously wrong. This can go very far, e.g. in his biography of
Mohammed, Maxime Rodinson declared unashamedly that the extermination of the
Medinese Jews by Mohammed was doubtlessly the best solution. In numerous popular
introductions to Islam, the fact that Islam imposes the death penalty on apostates (in
modern terminology: that Islam opposes freedom of religion in the most radical
manner) is acknowledged; but then it is explained that "since Islam was at war with
the polytheists, apostasy equalled treason and desertion, something which is still
punished with death in our secular society". All right, but the point is precisely that
Islam chose to be at war with the traditional religion of Arabia, as also with all other
religions, and that it has made this state of war into a permanent feature of its law
system.

5. Playing up unrepresentative facts: A popular tactic in negationism consists in
finding a positive but uncharacteristic event, and highlighting it while keeping the
over-all picture out of the public's view. For instance, a document is found in which
Christians, whose son has forcibly been inducted in the Ottoman Janissary army,
express pride because their son has made it to high office within this army. The fact
that these people manage to see the bright side of their son's abduction, enslavement
and forced conversion, is then used to prove that non-Muslims were quite happy
under Muslim rule, and to conceal the fact that the devshirme, the forcible conversion
and abduction of one fifth of the Christian children by the Ottoman authorities,
constituted a constant and formidable terror bewailed in hundreds of heart-rending
songs and stories.

>Because you're a paid shill
there we go, the shill-card.

>If you don't even know this
please tell me how you know this. Because you clearly have a degree in statistics, I can really tell.
>then you have no grasp of reading statistics and you're not worth my time
good, fuck off

For another example, negationists always mention cases of collaboration by nonMuslims
(German support in the Armenian Genocide etc.) to suggest that these were
treated as partners and equals and that Muslim rule was quite benevolent; when in
fact every history of an occupation, even the most cruel one, is also the history of a
collaboration. As has been pointed out, the Nazis employed Jewish guards in the
Warsaw ghetto, disprove the Nazi oppression of the Jews.

6. Denying the motive: Negationists sometimes accept the facts, but disclaim their
hero's responsibility for them. Thus, Mohammed Habib tried to exonerate Islam by
ascribing to the Islamic invaders alternative motives: Turkish barbarity, greed, the
need to put down conspiracies brewing in temples. In reality, those rulers who had
secular reasons to avoid an all-out confrontation with the unbelievers were often
reprimanded by their clerical courtiers for neglecting their Islamic duty. The same
clerics were never unduly worried over possible secular motives in a ruler's mind as
long as these prompted him to action against the unbelievers. At any rate, the fact
that Islam could be used routinely to justify plunder and enslavement (unlike, say,
Buddhism), is still significant enough.

7. Smokescreen: Another common tactic consists in blurring the problem by
questioning the very terms of the debate: "Islam does not exist, for there are many
Islam’s, with big differences between countries etc." It would indeed be hard to
criticise something that is so ill- defined. But the simple fact is that Islam does exist:
it is the doctrine contained in the Quran, normative for all Muslims, and in the Hadith,
normative for at least all Sunni Muslims. There are differences between the law
schools concerning minor points, and of course there are considerable differences in
the extent to which Muslims are effectively faithful to Islamic doctrine, and
correspondingly, the extent to which they mix it with un-Islamic elements.

8. Blaming fringe phenomena: When faced with hard facts of Islamic fanaticism,
negationists often blame them on some fringe tendency, now popularly known as
fundamentalism or Wahhabism. This is said to be the product of post-colonial
frustration, basically foreign to genuine Islam. In reality, fundamentalists like
Maulana Maudoodi and Ayatollah Khomeini knew their Quran better than the selfdeluding
secularists who brand them as bad Muslims. What is called fundamentalism
or Wahhabism is in fact the original Islam, as is proven by the fact that
fundamentalists have existed since long before colonialism, e.g. the 13th century
theologian Ibn Taimiya, who is still a lighthouse for today's Maudoodis, Turabis,
Madanis and Khomeini’s. When Ayatollah Khomeini declared that the goal of Islam is
the conquest of all non- Muslim countries, this was merely a reformulation of
Mohammed's long-term strategy and of the Quranic assurance that God has promised
the entire world to Islam. In the case of communism, one can shift the blame from
Marx to Lenin and Stalin, but Islamic terrorism has started with Mohammed himself.

>Brazil and Russia
>ethno nationalist states
I try not to bully Americans over the quality of their education but do you see the mistake you made here son?

He is a shill who will look through every crack in your argument to form his lie. He's not even American, but a muslim shill. Try not to start involved arguments with them- that's what they want.

9. Arguments ad hominem: If denying the evidence is not tenable, one can always
distort it by means of selective quoting and imputing motives to the original authors
of the source material; or manipulating quotations to make them say the opposite of
the over-all picture which the original author has presented. Focus all attention on a
few real or imagined flaws in a few selected pieces, and act as if the entire corpus of
evidence has been rendered untrustworthy. To extend the alleged untrustworthiness
of one piece of evidence to the entire corpus of evidence, it is necessary to create
suspicion against those who present the evidence: the implication is that they have a
plan of history falsification, that this plan has been exposed in the case of this one
piece of evidence, but that it is only logical that such motivated history falsifiers are
also behind the concoction of the rest of the alleged evidence.
If the discussion of inconvenient evidence cannot be prevented, disperse it by raising
other issues, such as the human imperfections which every victim of crimes against
humanity inevitably has (Jewish harshness against the Palestinians, Hindu
untouchability); describe the demand for the truth as a ploy to justify and cover up
these imperfections. If the facts have to be faced at all, then blame the victim. If
people ignore or refute your distorted version of history, accuse them of distortion
and political abuse of history. Slander scholars whose testimony is inconvenient;
impute political or other motives to them in order to pull the attention away from the
hard evidence they present.

10. Slogans: Finally, all discussion can be sabotaged with the simple technique of
shouting slogans: prejudice, myth, "racism/Islamophobia". Take the struggle from
the common battlefield of arguments into the opponent's camp: his self-esteem as a
member of the civilised company that abhors ugly things like prejudice and
Islamophobia. After all, attack is the best defence.

After summing up the forms of negationism, we have to look into its causes. The
following factors come to mind:

1. Orientalism and Islamology: After the medieval Christian pamphlets against
"Mohammed the impostor" whose media campaigns ended in the late 19th century,
not much has been published schematising the ideological and factual crimes of
Islam. Books on, say, "slavery in Islam" are extremely rare: the raw information that
could fill such a publication will have to be found in more general publications, in
which Islam is only referred to in passing, often without the author's realising the
implications for an evaluation of Islam. It is often said (when introducing "refutations
of prejudice") that people always associate Islam with intolerance; but finding a book
specifically devoted to the subject of Islamic intolerance will be harder. How many
tens of millions have been killed by Islam simply because they were non-Muslims?
Nobody has yet tabulated the figures available to prepare a general estimate. We can
only notice that critical research of Islam is not exactly encouraged, and that there is
an increasing tendency to self-censorship regarding Islam criticism. In part, this is
due to a much delayed reaction against the long-abandoned Christian polemical
approach.

Kremlin threads attack "Western" degeneracy as part of its far-right propaganda campaign. The Russian social media trolls try to make "the West" seem like it's degenerate to trigger the far right fascists. Works like a charm on Sup Forums.

That explains the thousands of "degenerate" threads on Sup Forums everyday.

All the Capitalism, communism, Marxism threads
All the former Soviet SSR threads (Ukraine, Poland, etc.)
All the cultural marxism, SJW and West is degenerate threads
All the Russia good, America bad threads
All the minority hate threads
All the "Suka Blyat dindu nuffin" threads.
All the muh russia "no proofs no proofs" threads

None of those countries are Ethnonationalist.

And the homicide rate is at it's lowest because of the proliferation of the mobile phone, that alone cut homicides to 1/3.Also in major European cities the crime rate is going up comparing to just 5 years ago.

Stop trying Shareblue.

Now that Islamic Studies departments in Europe are increasingly manned by Muslims
and sponsored by Islamic foundations and states, the climate for critical studies of
Islam is only worsening. When comparing the first (pre-World War 2) edition of the
Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden, Netherlands) with the new edition, it is striking how
critical observations have been ironed out. But even in the past, Islam has enjoyed a
rather favourable treatment in academic circles. Thus, about Islamic slavery the
prominent Dutch Islamologist C. Snouck-Hurgronje wrote in 1887 (i.e. thirty years
after the Americans had waged a war to impose the abolition of slavery in their
southern states, and some seventy years after its abolition in the colonies): "For most
slaves their abduction was a blessing... They themselves are convicted that it is their
enslavement that has for the first time made them human."

The political context of the growth phase of Islamology provides a part of the
explanation. Mature colonialism was not waging war against Islam, but sought the co-
operation of the established social forces in the colonised populations. The British cooperation
with the Indian Muslims is well- known; it is epitomised by the founding in
1906 of the Muslim League, which sought to "inculcate loyalty to the British Empire in
the Indian Muslims". In French West Africa, in the same period, Islam was accepted
as a factor of social stability, and General Lyautey pursued a dream of a FrancoIslamic
synthesis culture in Algeria. In the 1930s, in the last European attempt at
fresh colonisation, the Italian Fascists actively supported the spread of Islam in the
Horn of Africa. But already since 1853 the colonial powers had been supporting the
Caliphate against a Christian power, Russia, esp. in the Crimean War (a mistaken war
if ever there was one), and this had strongly contributed to climate of benevolence
towards the Muslim culture.

2. Church policy: Christianity has for centuries waged a lively polemic against
Islam. Recently, this criticism has subsided. Worse, polemical works by clerics have
been withdrawn or kept unpublished (such as, early this century, Father Henri
Lammens' paper arguing that Mohammed's revelations were a psychopathological
phenomenon). One reason is that the Church is aware of the similarity between
Jesus' and Mohammed's missions, so that a criticism of the foundations of Islam may
backfire on Christianity. The second reason is the fear that Christians in the Muslim
world would have to pay for even ideological attack on Islam (that is why Church
polemists save their sharpest words for harmless religions like Hinduism). This fear
also motivates other Church policies, such as the non-recognition of the state of
Israel.
Meanwhile, the face of the Church has changed. A small but significant event in the
wake of the Second Vatican Council was the deletion from the Saints' calendar of Our
Lady of the Redemption of Slaves, whose feast was on 24 September. In the Middle
Ages, there was a special clerical order and a whole fund-raising network devoted to
the redemption ("buying back") of Christian slaves held in Barbary. Until the 19th
century, coastal villages in Italy had watchtowers to alarm the people when a ship of
the slave-catching Barbarese pirates was in sight. The terror of Islamic slavery was a
permanent feature of Christian history from the 7th till the 19th century, but now the
Church is working hard to erase this memory.

One word: Jews.

No, Muslims. 100% Muslims.

Today, its pastors are the most fervent pleaders for the rights of Islam. Muslims in
Europe are for them a substitute for the disappearing parish members. Separate
Christian institutions, whose reason of existence is being questioned, find a new
legitimacy in the fact that Islam in its turn is also opening separate schools, charities
and even political parties. Islam has become a sister religion regularly praised as a
religion of peace.

3. Anti-colonialism: One of the ideological guidelines of anti-colonialism was: "Of
the (ex) colonised, nothing but good must be said." Therefore, mentioning the
colonialism and mass slavery practised by the Muslims had become undesirable.
Add to this general taboo the warning that Islam criticism effectively implies support
to Israel, described by Maxime Rodinson as a "colonial settler-state". If one
acknowledges that Islam has always oppressed the Jews, one accepts that Israel was
a necessary refuge for the Jews fleeing not only the European but also the Islamic
variety of anti-Judaism. Let us not forget that decolonisation was followed
immediately by renewed discrimination of and attacks on the Jewish and Christian
minorities, and that those Jews who could get out have promptly fled to Israel (or
France, in the case of Algeria). It is no coincidence that these Sephardic Jews are
mostly supporters of the hard- liners in Israel.

Those brief few years between WW1 and the Jewish extermination of the German people, those years were so sweet, so authentic and pure. Oh the humanity D:

tldr lol

your muslim shill tactics are pathetic. Everybody can tell.

4. The enemy's enemy is a friend: Many people brought up as Christians, or as
nominal Hindus, never outgrow their pubescent revolt against their parents' religion,
and therefore automatically sympathise with every rival or opponent of the religion
they have come to despise. Because Islam poses the most formidable threat, they
like it a lot.

5. Leftism: In this century, Islam has come to be advertised as a naturally leftist
"religion of equality". This line has been developed by Muslim apologists such as
Mohammed Habib, and they have even taken it as a rationalisation of the irrational
claim that Mohammed was the "last Prophet": after all, as the "prophet of equality",
he had brought the ultimate message upon which no improvement is possible. Sir
Mohammed Iqbal, one of the fathers of Pakistan, had claimed that "Islam equals
Communism plus Allah". The Iranian Ayatollahs, by contrast, and most of the vocal
Muslims after the Soviet-Islamic war in Afghanistan, have restated the orthodox
position that Communism is un-Islamic, not only because of its atheism but also
because of its rejection of free enterprise; the current claim is that Islam provides a
"better form of equality" than Communism.

Even while Communists were slaughtered in Islamic Iran, and even while political
analysts classify the Islamist movements as "extreme rightist", most leftists have
kept on cultivating some sympathy for Islam. During the Lebanese civil war, they fed
us news stories about "leftist Muslims, rightist Christians", "Islamo-progressive,
Christiano- reactionnaire".

Negationism in Europe is practised with the most prowess by historians and writers
who are under the spell of Marxism. Lenin had wanted to use the Muslims against the
French and British colonialists. Modern Leftists with Marxist sympathies see Islam as
an ally against Israel and the US.

6. Rightist traditionalism: There is also a rightist sympathy for Islam. An obvious
point of agreement is of course anti-Judaism. A subtler basis for sympathy is the socalled
traditionalist current, which was represented by the converts Rene Guenon and
Frithjof Schuon, and still has a following: it has been idealising Islam and esp. Sufism
as the preserver of the age-old philosophia pernnis against modernity. In Russia,
some Slavophile anti-Western groups now seek an alliance with Islam against the
impending Americanisation of their society. In the U.S., Christian fundamentalists and
Islamic organisations are increasingly creating common platforms to speak out
against trends of moral decay (abortion, pornography, etc.). Some of these
phenomena of traditionalist alliance-building are quite respectable, but they are
nevertheless conducive to Islam negationism.

7. Economic Liberalists: Liberalists see Muslim immigration as an endless source of
cheap labour and seek to defend them as often as they can. In addition, they support
EU membership for Turkey.

8. Liberal Islam: In the Islamic world, it is unwise to attack Islam head-on. Yet,
sometimes people in those countries feel the need to oppose Islamic phenomena and
campaigns, such as the witch-hunt on un-Islamic cultural remnants, violence on the
non-Muslims, extreme forms of gender inequality. In order to have a chance, these
people have to use Islamic language:
"Mohammed was actually against polygamy", "violence against others is in conflict
with the tolerance which Mohammed has taught us", "and respect for other cultures
is part of Islamic tradition".
In order to press their humanist point, they have to formally identify with Islam
and lie about its contents.

Many Muslims have started to believe their own rhetoric. If you point out to them
that the Quran teaches intolerance and war against the unbelievers in the most
explicit terms, many of them will sincerely protest, and not know what to say
when you show them the Quranic passages concerned. There is no reason to
doubt that the Moroccan authoress Fatima Mernissi genuinely believes in her own
argument that the Quranic instructions on how to organise your polygamous
household are to be read as an abolition of polygamy (albeit in veiled terms,
because Allah, the same Allah Almighty who went straight against the prevalent
customs of idolatry and pluralism, had to be careful not to offend the spirit of the
times). Many nominal Muslims have outgrown Islamic values and developed a
commitment to modern values, but their sentimental attachment to the religion
imbibed in their childhood prevents them from formally breaking with Islam and
makes them paint a rosy picture of it.

Among Muslim spokesmen, is certainly not the fundamentalists who are the most
active proponents of negationism. It is liberals like Asghar Ali Engineer who deny
that Islam ordains war on the infidels. It is those who are acclaimed by Europeans
as being good "secular" Muslims. An Islam that wants to be secular cannot be and
is therefore dishonest and untrue to itself. Unfortunately, a tolerant Islam is a
contradiction, and the “creation” of a tolerant past for Islam to appease the
position of liberal Muslims, is a lie.

9. Muslims differing from Islam: Many people have a Muslim neighbour who is
a fine man, and from this empirical fact they conclude: Islam cannot be all that
bad considering our friend Mustapha. This one empirical fact gives them a
tremendous resistance against all information about Islamic intolerance. People
usually reduce the world to their own sphere of experience, and general historical
facts of Islamic fanaticism are not allowed to disturb the private experience of
good neighbourly relations.

Many nominal Muslims have retained some vague generalities about morality from
the Quran, and they normally go by their own conscience and sensibility without
ever developing the doctrinally prescribed hostility towards non-Muslims. These
good people, although bad Muslims, can ignore but not change Islamic doctrine.
They cannot prevent the Quranic message of hatred from infecting at least some
of the more susceptible among their brethren and perhaps even their children or
grandchildren in the future.