See this man?
He’s preaching a message of violence and hate.
He’s also doing something else: He’s wearing a mask.
This kind of thing is socially acceptable in many Muslim circles, as evidenced by the fact that it’s quite common. It happens all the time. Whenever there are protests in the Muslim world (or even Muslims protesting elsewhere; this gentleman was protesting in London) people wearing masks show up preaching messages of violence and hate.
Can you think of anyone else who would wear masks while preaching messages of violence and hate?
That’s right. The Ku Klux Klan.
They did this kind of thing all the time: Go out in public and preach a message of violence and hate while wearing masks.
And eighty years ago that kind of thing was socially acceptable in many American circles (and not just in the South).
But it doesn’t happen that much any more. The Klan still marches or has rallies on occasion, but nothing like the frequency with which it happened in the first half of the 20th century.
Why?
Because American society turned against the Klan. Originally, when the Klan got re-started in the early 20th century, membership in it was a means of social
advancement in many places, and many prominent citizens joined–including some who
went on to become Supreme Court justices and U.S. senators. (Just as in the Muslim world participating in violent, hate-filled
protests is a means of social advancement through proving one’s fervor.)
But non-racist Americans hardened American society against the Klan. They made it a shameful, socially-unacceptable thing to belong to or participate in. And eventually, the Klan dried up.
Good for us.
Now something similar needs to happen in the Muslim world.
Muslims who don’t support what Islamic Klansmen are doing at their rallies need to make it socially unacceptable in Muslim societies. So eventually, the Muslim Klan will dry up, too.
Muslims of good will must begin to shame their shameless brethren. They must do the same thing to the violent hate-mongers in their midst that Americans did to the violent hate-mongers here.
How might they do that?
Well, let’s consider the fellow above and the fact that he is wearing a mask. Why is he doing that?
Presumably for one of the same reasons that Klansmen in America did:
- He is afraid to take personal responsibility in public for the message of violence and hatred he is preaching.
- He’s connected with criminal activities and doesn’t want to be identified.
- He wants to intimidate those he is protesting.
Point #3 can be dealt with by merely standing up to this form of bullying and criticizing it. If people start mocking the mask-wearers, it kind of neutralizes the intimidation aspect.
Muslims (and others) should therefore begin mocking the mask-wearers by pointing out that donning a mask is an admission that you are either a coward (point #1) or a criminal (point #2). Either way, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Muslims and non-Muslims alike should stand forth and say, "There is no reason to wear a mask at a protest. If you wear one, you shame yourself. Why would you wear a mask if you didn’t have something to be ashamed of? What manly men you are, you mask-wearers. You’re hiding your faces like women in burkhas."
This kind of shaming will not of itself fix the problem, but starting to shame those who participate in these kind of rallies is a good start–and an essential piece of the solution.
Let the shaming begin.
(I’ll feature a Muslim group tomorrow who is helping to do this.)
Cowards is right, Jimmy. That’s why the Klan were “night-riders”. Those who live in darkness hate the light.
Of course, the population of the South a century ago was a few orders of magnitude smaller than the 1.3 billion Muslims that inhabit the world today.
And who was the Supreme Court justice that was a member of the klan?
Dunno, but current US Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) is a former Klansman. I think he was even a “Grand Kleagle” or something.
Byrd was a “kleagle”, or recruiter, for the Klan.
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was a Klansman.
Here’s an interesting tidbit.
Both the Klan and the religion of Islam have a “family member” in common. Freemasonry gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan (Albert Pike, Supreme Grand Master of Washington D.C. Masonry, American Freemasonry, and World Freemasonry — the only Mason to ever hold all three titles — created the KKK). Freemasonry also pays homage to the Queran, and in fact venerates Islam in the order known as Shriners.
In 1871, Albert Pike wrote a letter to Guiseppe Mazzini outlining a plan for 3 world wars. The first world war (according to Pike) was intended to bring power to communism. The second world war was to secure socialism throughout Europe. The third world war he said would take place in the Middle East as a massive religious war between Muslims, Jews, and Christians. He said that revolutions will spring up across europe at the beginning of this war, and this war would be used to bring about global governance.
H. G. Wells, both a Freemason and a Fabian Socialist, wrote a book in 1933 entitled, “The Shape of Things to Come“. Wells predicted a second world war around 1940, originating from a German-Polish dispute. After 1945 there would be an increasing lack of public safety in “criminally infected” areas. The plan for the “Modern World-State” would succeed on its third attempt, and come out of something that occurred in Basra, Iraq.
Seems to me like the connection between the mask-wearing KKK and the Mask-wearing Muslim protesters is not so stretched.
A close reading of the Koran and studying Muslim history might suggest that the only “good” Muslim is the one that ignores most of the teachings of Muhammed or (at the very least) does not take them seriously. The goal of the religion is a global conversion, and history has shown that they are not afraid to use force to accomplish that.
Jimmy’s comment about mocking the mask wearers reminded me of the story I read in “Freakonomics” about how Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the klan and fed inside info to the creators of the Superman comic book. This demystification/mockery led to a big decline in klan membership. I don’t know if something similar would work with jihadis. Maybe there’s a young Stetson Bin Laden out there who’ll give it a shot.
Jimmy is on to something in identifying the cowardly criminal element in all this.
Sadly, Michelle Malkin’s blog has the story of a Catholic priest in Turkey murdered by a Muslim youth.
We’ll have to keep the victim and the perpetrator in our prayers.
Hugo Black was a member of the KKK.
Jimmy,
Great comparison!!
All of Abraham’s bad seed apparently resides in the MidEast.
Discomike,
You may want to check out http://www.threeworldwars.com/albert-pike2.htm for information about this letter from Pike to Mazzini.
To date, no conclusive proof exists to show that this letter was ever written. Nevertheless, the letter is widely quoted and the topic of much discussion.
Just sounds like one of those “prophecies” written after (most of) the fact.
(If anyone has more info to share about this, especially if it’s a correction to what I’ve written, please comment.)
Jamie,
I have a book that was written in the 1950’s that cites this letter. Even if one were to dispute the first two parts of the letter as apriori knowledge, they still have to contend with the third part. In the 1950’s, Islam wasn’t even on the map. Everyone in the world believed that WW III would be a war between the United States and Russia, and that it would be a nuclear war. The third part of the letter said that it would be a holy war in the middle east. Whether one wishes to dispute the authenticity of the letter or not, it would appear that such things were planned as they happened (and are happening).
Perhaps the alleged Pike letter and the quote from H. G. Wells (who accurately predicted WW II, and said that WW III would start from an incident in Iraq) are completely unrelated, but the chilling fact remains that two different sources claimed that WW III would take place in the Middle East.
It doesn’t seem at all revealing that someone claimed WW III would start in the Middle East. Can you think of a place that has been more beset by war? This is where civilization began, and since then wars have been almost ceaseless. Here were the ancient wars of the Hittites and Egyptians and the conquests of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. Here the Maccabean revolt tied up 1/7 of the Roman army – the most powerful army in the world for millenia before and since. Here the Christian armies of the west fought the Muslim armies of the east for almost a thousand years, back and forth, because from here the Muslim armies had spread into Africa and Europe and Israel, and have been fighting ever since. The Middle East was a battleground in both world wars, and since then there have been smaller wars every half-decade or so, with constant skirmishing in between. If one was to take bets where a world war would start, Vegas would have its money on a region where there has rarely been prolonged peace in recorded history.
I guess my point is that whether or not the letters are authentic, there seems to be some “behind the scenes” manipulation, stirring the pot, as it were.
Let’s face it, WW I was started because a member of a Masonic subsect (The Black Hand) assassinated an Arch-Duke, and later on, America was brought into the war under dubious circumstances as well.
WW II had an even more sinister force behind it (Naziism has its roots in the occult, connected with Freemasonry; FDR was a 33 degree Freemason; Winston Churchill was a Freemason and a Druid; there is evidence that Stalin was also a Mason).
As we see these riots/protests/sparks of revolution suddenly springing up out of nowhere, we can be sure that someone is doing it for a reason.
My grandparents were very active in working with the FBI and the LAPD in exposing communists. They knew first hand that the Watts riots were sparked by communists, and knew first hand how the communists were attempting to start a revolution in America (they were half-successful).
It just seems to me that the same kind of “behind-the-scenes” manipulation is behind the Muslim riots, which will eventually spark into a full-blown revolution.
What’s clear to me is that the history we teach our children to make the world make sense will bear but a passing resemblance to the actual course of events that will be laid bare at the final judgment.
PVO
Mulopwepaul,
For once, we agree.
Wanted to tell you about this picture I saw from the French protests today (3/28/2006).
Thought it looked eerily like the one of the Islamoklan rioters from last month.
Here is the picture, if Yahoo! has taken it down already.
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20060328/2006_03_28t115721_310x450_us_france.jpg
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And then another possibility could be that the man wasn’t wearing a mask, but that it was actually his coat collar lifted up high, which would suggest that it was cold out — as I see that he was also wearing gloves.