Ralph S. Kates     

Ignorance only indicates a lack of knowledge of a particular subject.  Stupidity, however, is another matter; it can mean that either a person lacks the mental capacity to analyze determinable facts which have been presented or, that the person has such a mindset regarding a particular subject that their mind is closed towards the receipt of any new information which might lead to a change in their position.  The following old, but tried and true sayings may be of benefit for an understanding of the present confrontation with Islam.      


DON’T GET BETWEEN TWO FIGHTING DOGS; YOU MIGHT GET BIT! & THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND!  The “fighting dogs” in this case are the Sunnis and the Shi’ites, the two most powerful sects of Islam.  They have hated each other for well over a thousand years, and their considerable hatred for each other is exceeded only by that towards “infidels”.  Their committed goal, as specifically ordained by the Koran, is to kill or enslave all non-Muslims!  And, at practically any opportunity, acting individually or in alliance, they will kill infidels, because, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”        

YOU CAN’T MAKE A SILK PURSE OUT OF A SOW’S EAR.  The “silk purse” in this case is freedom, democracy and the inherent capitalism accompanying the first two.  The “sow’s ear” is Islam!  

Democracy is non-existent in all countries of the Muslim world, and freedom is an abstract concept.  Almost all these countries have come to Islam by bloody conquest and there are few exceptions!   All major capitalistic enterprises are reserved for the dictators in power and their cronies.  Any attempt to change the ingrained customs of any societal structure, except by ruthless measures, in one or two generations is doomed from the start.  And Islam has had over 1,350 years to solidify its societal structure.   

A good example of the idiocy of attempting to modify a society, in a brief period of time, along supposedly altruistic measures, is what transpired after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  The U.S. was determined to bring Russia into the camp of democracy and capitalism after only slightly over 70 years of Communism, and several billion dollars were given, not loaned, to the Russian Government to prop up their economy.  

But the Russians, after only a relatively short while under Communism, had no conception of free enterprise or democracy.  They were accustomed to being told where to work, where to live and what to think.  The injection of several billion dollars into the Russian economy undoubtedly helped some of the general population but mostly helped their previous Communist overlords and the Russian Mafia, the only segment of Russian society that had always operated within a capitalistic system.  Then, thanks to the incompetence of the I.N.S., thousands of Russians were allowed into the U.S. including many members of the Russian Mafia.  They are now operating in our major cities, better organized and far more ruthless than the Sicilian based Mafia of old.  And, the Russian Government, under President Putin, an ex-KGB officer, is again becoming a police state.  But, Islam has, and still uses, an effective manner of altering a society within a single generation!  After a society had been conquered, and the initial orgy of rape, murder, enslavement and pillage subsides, the following measures are implemented: Adults, with a knife at their throats, have a choice of conversion to Islam or their throats cut!  Most became instant Muslims, and these new converts to Islam know that they will face certain death if any back-sliding occurs.  Then, all churches, synagogues and temples of other religions are destroyed or converted to mosques.  The children are then educated in Muslim schools. These means are effective in converting a society in only one generation, as done in the Balkans in the 14th Century, and as is presently ongoing in the Sudan today.         

TELL ME WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE, AND I’LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU ARE!  
(This is an old Spanish saying, but applicable in any society), and, a saying of the Southern U.S. is:  IF YOU SLEEP WITH DOGS, YOU’RE LIABLE TO WAKE UP WITH FLEAS!  Islam, because of its long existence, with well over a billion loyal followers, and its expenditures of over 50 billion dollars towards the subversion of Western civilization in the last 30 years, considerably more than World Communism spent in over 75 years, demands and receives considerable respect as a major religion from ignorant Westerners.  Islam certainly deserves respect as a mortal and evil enemy, and certainly should be feared, but Islam, Allah, Muhammad, and the Koran, which in effect are all one and the same, deserve only ridicule, and firm opposition!  

Muhammad, if having invented Islam recently, and still alive, would be in a padded cell of an asylum for the criminally insane, or on Death Row, for the numerous capital crimes he personally committed.  These include: murder, by various means, mutilations, rape, kidnaping, extortion, theft, slavery, spousal abuse, pedophilia, false witness and adultery.  All these crimes are well documented in the Koran, the Hadith and by Christian, Jewish and even Muslim biographers and historians.  The Koran explicitly condones all of the above crimes, and Islam holds the world’s record of genocide, in the hundreds of millions, many times more victims than that of Nazi Germany and World Communism combined!  Over two million have been killed in the Sudan alone, since 1980!  Any person associating him self, or her self, with Islam stands convicted of their own base nature or their abject ignorance!  


CUT YOUR LOSSES!  Any well run business, once realizing drastic mistakes of its past operations, will cut its losses and change its tactics.  The United States is the biggest business in the world, but any hot-dog stand at Coney Island is better managed.  The U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan were, in charitable words, ill-advised.  

Bush had multiple reasons for the invasion of Iraq, including the fact that Saddam Hussein had ordered a hit on his father, George Bush, Senior.  And, though considerable evidence was discovered that Saddam had previously possessed WMD’s, none were actually found.  Once no WMD’s were found, and Saddam Hussein captured, we should have withdrawn immediately.  

With the collapse of Saddam’s forces, thousands of powerful, mostly U.S. companies now have a vested interest in the reconstruction of that country.  And, every U.S. taxpayer continues to support this foolishness.  If you have an enemy whose religious duty is to kill you, it is abject stupidity to reconstruct his country!  

And, without Saddam Hussein’s firm hold on the country, al-Qaeda, a Shi’ite sect, rushed in to continue their jihad against the Sunnis and the occupation forces.  The Shi’ites will prevail and eventually the U.S. will probably withdraw, leaving a worse situation in Iraq than before our occupation.  Iraq will then probably unite with Iran, whose population is 90% Shi’ites.  The U.S. will then look for an opportunity to withdraw whenever possible, “with honor”! 

As regarding Afghanistan, the primary reasons or excuses for its invasion was to get Osama ‘bin Laden, and supposedly to liberate the Afghans from the terrible oppression of the Taliban.  A third objective was to destroy the source of heroin, since at that time, Afghanistan supplied about 75% of the word’s raw opium needed to produce heroin.  However, today, U.S. forces control only a small perimeter around Kabul, the capitol, with Muslim warlords controlling the rest of the country.  Bin Laden is supposedly still alive and the Taliban is becoming stronger each day, using arms and equipment, including tanks left behind by the Russians and SAM missiles supplied to the Afghans by the U.S.  Several U.S. aircraft knocked down by the Taliban are by SAM missiles previously provided them by the U.S.  And the opium fields are flourishing again!   


KNOW YOUR ENEMY!  All societies of the world have been engaged in a global war with Islam for well over a thousand years.  Our politically correct media insists upon labeling terrorists as “insurgents”, “dissidents”, “militiamen” and even occasionally “terrorists”, but seldom call them by their true name, “Islamic Terrorists”!  They are not Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu or Shinto terrorists; they are Islamic terrorists, just following the exhortations of Allah (Muhammad) through the Koran!  Unfortunately, President Bush, his advisors, and most members of Congress are either completely ignorant regarding Islam, or prefer to turn a blind eye for their personal agendas.  And, of course, most of the general public hasn’t a clue!           


YOU’RE DAMNED IF YOU DO, AND DAMNED IF YOU DON’T!  Any, and all, attempts to placate Islam by the U.S. or other democratic governments are doomed to failure.  Regardless of any concessions made, Islam will accept only unconditional surrender!  This inflexibility is built into the religion by the Koran.  And, regardless of what political party controls our government, either is doomed to failure regarding our survival unless a realistic evaluation of Islam is accomplished.      

DON’T MESS ON YOUR OWN DOOR STEP; YOU MIGHT TRACK IT INTO THE HOUSE!, & THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST!  There are countless organizations and individuals, presently contributing to the destruction of our democracy.  They are “messing on their own door step”.  Some do so wittingly and some through ignorance of the Islamic threat, but the result is the same.  At the forefront of the Muslim penetration are public schools and universities teaching that Islam is a “peaceful and benevolent” religion!  Most universities with Islamic or Middle Eastern Studies are initially funded by Saudi Arabia, and thereafter by U.S. taxpayers.  The professors are almost always Muslims or persons sympathetic to Islam.  These schools are cranking out thousands of potential home grown terrorists each year.  Several have already emerged.   

Saudi Arabia is the seat of Islam, the birthplace of Muhammad ‘bin Abdallah, where he invented the religion, and the site of Medina and Mecca, the two holiest cities of the Muslim world.  It is also the country that provided 15 of the 19 Islamic Terrorists of 9/11, and is the home of Osama ‘bin Laden.  But Saudi Arabia also provides the U.S. with about 20% of the oil needed to run our economy.  To that, add the numerous lobbyists in Washington, paid by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries, the various charitable Islamic front organizations raising money from the gullible American public for terrorists and ignorant members of Congress attempting to convey Constitutional civil rights to Islamic Terrorists captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan.  And, let us not forget the A.C.L.U., whose principal founder was a Communist, and that is now allied with the foremost Islamic front organization of the U.S.  

But, the most frightening of all is the complacency of the American public!  It is quite evident that the Muslim attack of 9/11 was an insufficient wake up call.  As a nation, we grieved for awhile, and then it was “business as usual”. 

The F.B.I, C.I.A., Homeland Security, the Justice Department and various other law enforcement agencies have foiled numerous small terrorist plots but Al-Qaeda, though certainly capable of doing so, has not made an all-out attack with atomic devices or biological weapons, which they supposedly have. It could well be, as their success in Europe has demonstrated, that they prefer to take over the U.S. by gradual subversion, with just a few minor attacks.  

“The chickens are coming home to roost.”  But, hopefully, sooner or later, the American public will awaken, and quit “Messing on its own door step!”