By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

In a previous article, I quoted Bernard Lewis, the doyen of Islamic studies, who recognized that overweening arrogance is characteristic of Muslim culture. From Lewis we learn that worshippers of the Qur’an are so proud of their own perfection as to make Islam and its Muslim worshipers “impervious to external stimuli.” This requires Israel to treat these disciples of Mohammad ruthlessly, as brilliantly explained by the author of Civilization and Its Enemies, Lou Harris, the “philosopher of 9/11.

The inordinate pride or arrogance of Muslims will only be magnified by the sugary self-restraint of democratic politicians like Benjamin Netanyahu.  Muslims who regard Jews as “dogs” – their epithet for all non-Muslims – need to be treated as one might treat mad dogs: kill them at once.  Failure to do so will only encourage these beasts to murder more Jews. And mark this well: they will target our most eminent citizens, rabbis, to degrade Judaism and flaunt the “supremacy” of their own religion.

Only recall how the Viet Cong Communists targeted the mayors and teachers of South Vietnam villages – the most respected personalities – to demoralize their enemy in the South.

No sane person would seek to befriend a dog stricken with rabies – a poison analogous to the pathological hatred Muslims incubate and harbor for Jews, a hatred so vividly portrayed by Leon Uris in Exodus.

An Israeli Prime Minister that disregards the lethal theo-political significance of this hatred is not qualified for that office. An Israeli Prime Minister that does not feel morally outraged by the murder of rabbis – especially by Muslims – is a clod, to put it mildly.

The great Arab philosopher al-Farabi (d. 950), who was a Muslim in dress only, would agree. He wrote a book on Plato and Aristotle in an esoteric way to conceal his utter contempt for Islam on the one hand, and his admiration of those Greek philosophers on the other. Indeed, the great Arab historian and sociologist ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) regarded Arabs as “savages.” You don’t negotiate with savages, certainly not on the basis of “reciprocity” – which would be indicative of fatuity bordering on insanity!

Much the same may be said of Israeli officials who collaborate in a Government that consorts with the murderers of Jewish children. Against such ruthless enemies, ruthlessness is a must, lest they call us sheep as well as dogs!