Prof. Paul Eidelberg

1. Despite 9/11, the United States has failed to identify Islam as the greatest enemy of civilization.

2. For decades the United States has bankrolled the leading terrorist organization in the world, the Palestine Liberation Organization (the PLO).

3. Hence the United States may be accused of being largely responsible for the lawlessness into which mankind has fallen since 9/11, if a date is to be assigned to the moral and intellectual decadence of Western Civilization.

4. This decadence may be attributed to multicultural moral relativism, a doctrine propagated by virtually every level of education in the democratic world.

5. Moral and intellectual decay cannot but lead to violence and lawlessness. The barbaric violence that erupted in Paris – in France, the home of democracy of which America’s fatuous Secretary of State boasts – is nothing more than another example of the decline and fall of the West which, like Rome, has succumbed to skepticism and atheism.

6. The skepticism-cum-atheism of the secular democratic West is an invitation to the lawless in spirit to become the lawless in practice.  This lawlessness has been magnified enormously by the cowardly failure of the West to subject Islam to rational criticism.  Islam has received a free pass even though it does not even bother to conceal its goal of subjecting mankind to the totalitarian dispensation of Sharia Law, which would relegate mankind to the monotony of an ant heap.

7. Now, at this point it may seem quixotic on my part to recall Abraham Lincoln’s “Lyceum Address” of the 1830s, when lawlessness was erupting in the United States, of which the Ferguson riots are an example, however far removed from Islamic terrorism.

8. Mr. Lincoln said: “Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.”

9. Mr. Lincoln warned that by failing to uphold the law, the wicked in spirit will become the wicked in practice. Hence, it may well be that the barbarism which erupted in Paris is an indirect consequence of the silence that has been accorded the violent teachings and terrorism of Islam by the educators and decision makers of the democratic West.

10. We should expect Islam to exploit this folly of democracy. In other words, we should expect the wicked in spirit to become the wicked in practice when they ponder the West’s permissive attitude toward mosques that preach hatred and violence toward non-Muslims.◙