America has been morally disarmed. It cannot stand up to its Mortal enemy, Islam.

By Prof Paul Eidelberg

It cannot even halt the hatred of Jews and Israel rampant in American colleges and universities. Indeed, liberal education in America is primarily a form of self-degradation. This degradation is called “multiculturalism,” which is nothing more than a euphemism for Nihilism, the philosophy of the void that has conquered contemporary liberal education.

What is ironic about this development is that it coincides with the eruption of a doctrine diametrically opposed to multiculturalism, “Islamism” Islamism is unadulterated Islam on its historical and global warpath. Islam rejects the nation-state system, whose diverse ways of life is a manifestation of the plenitude of the Creator of heaven and earth. This diversity requires for its enjoyment and progress universal laws of morality, for the teaching of which God created a special people, “Israel.”

The teachings and behaviors of Israel and Islam are diametrically opposed. Muslim scriptures impose on their believers a duty to kill Jews.  The Quran exalts the Muslim who “slays and is slain” for Allah (Sura 9:111).

Given this murderous hatred, that Jews should arm themselves against these Muslims, whether in malls or in synagogues, is plain common sense. However, carrying a deadly weapon requires a modicum of courage, since it suggests that you may have to use it against a wicked person. This poses a problem that involves more than death-dealing Muslims.

First of all, to think and act with dispatch against wicked people requires a firm belief in good and evil. Unfortunately, the belief in good and evil has been eroded in the present age by the university-bred doctrine of moral relativism, a dogma prevalent among Contemporary Liberals in contradistinction to Classical Liberals.

When a Classical Liberal said that men can be friends despite their differences, he was assuming that what these men have in common is more important to them than their differences. What has unobtrusively fostered this assumption was the long-established belief that man is created in the image of God.

This is why people with diverse religious doctrines in the West – say Catholics, Protestant, and Jews – could behave toward each other in a civil and tolerant manner and with mutual confidence. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case.

Evangelical atheists, who are not models of toleration, have become political activists. Meanwhile, moral fatigue has diminished Americans, and just when militant Islam is erupting everywhere.  American self-confidence has evaporated. For an American to preach religious toleration would be laughable.

The contemporary Liberal doesn’t know how to handle this new state of affairs. He’s mired in moral paralysis, largely because he has been to college where he internalized a variety of noxious academic doctrines spewing moral relativism or moral equivalency. Higher education today is steeped in post-modernism, more precisely, in multiculturalism and the “fact-value” dichotomy of logical empiricism. The latter has influenced great physicists such as Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman, Their mastery of science has left them babes in a moral wilderness, as I have shown in my book “Rescuing America from Nihilism: A Judeo-Scientific Approach”.

Now let us cut to the chase. The Relativism spearheaded by liberals has eviscerated belief in the Universal Truths embodied in America’s primary foundational document, its Declaration of Independence. By so doing, Relativism has undermined American self-confidence and vitiated its foreign policy. 

The seed was planted a hundred years ago in the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was influenced by Hegel’s doctrine of historical progress, which by definition rendered the immutable truths of the Declaration obsolete, along with the long-established idea of limited government. Aping Hegel, Wilson made the bureaucratic State the instrument of Progress. This obviously promoted the popularly elected President as the nation’s supreme leader. Wilson’s historical relativism and progressivism captured the White House, now run by his unlearned disciple Barack Obama.

Thus, nothing less than an intellectual-cum-political revolution can save America and what’s left of Western Civilization. Needed for the dual aspects of this revolution is an American president with a sober Judeo-Christian mind and a good understanding of how this combination of factors is needed to stop the Advance of Islam on the one hand, and to rejuvenate the West on the other.

Hence nothing short of a political as well as a pedagogical revolution are necessary, beginning with basic reform of the education, one that restores love of America and confidence in the justice and nobility its cause – such that this education may inspire our opinion makers and decision makers.