Islamic Extremism May Save Western Civilization
Besides the fact that Western Civilization began in the area of
the Fertile Crescent, also known as Mesopotamia (present day
Iraq),

it is as well an
historical fact beyond dispute that it was the learning and
sophistication of the Arab culture that led to many of the
scientific developments that would later make Europe the cradle
of science, learning, and advancement.

Islamic Extremism May Save Western Civilization

By Mark Glenn

It would shock and probably offend most Americans to learn the truth that
the reason they are here, their power, their affluence and position in the
world is directly because of the Islamic religion and the Arab culture. That
's right, the very "ragheads" and "Hajis" (as Limbaugh, Liddy, and some of
the others often call them) that the US is now fighting are directly
responsible for the preeminence and power of not just the United States, but
of the entire Western world in general.

Islamic Extremism May Save Western Civilization

By Mark Glenn

It would shock and probably offend most Americans to learn the truth that
the reason they are here, their power, their affluence and position in the
world is directly because of the Islamic religion and the Arab culture. That
's right, the very "ragheads" and "Hajis" (as Limbaugh, Liddy, and some of
the others often call them) that the US is now fighting are directly
responsible for the preeminence and power of not just the United States, but
of the entire Western world in general.

Islamic Extremism May Save Western Civilization

By Mark Glenn

It would shock and probably offend most Americans to learn the truth that
the reason they are here, their power, their affluence and position in the
world is directly because of the Islamic religion and the Arab culture. That
's right, the very "ragheads" and "Hajis" (as Limbaugh, Liddy, and some of
the others often call them) that the US is now fighting are directly
responsible for the preeminence and power of not just the United States, but
of the entire Western world in general.

Besides the fact that Western Civilization began in the area of the Fertile
Crescent, also known as Mesopotamia (present day Iraq), it is as well an
historical fact beyond dispute that it was the learning and sophistication
of the Arab culture that led to many of the scientific developments that
would later make Europe the cradle of science, learning, and advancement.
After the institutionalization of the Islamic religion throughout the
Mediterranean region, the extent of Arab learning and culture was such that
European Kings, Christian Kings, would send their sons and daughters to be
educated in Moslem places such as Cordova and Toledo. Christian Crusaders
coming back from the Middle East told of the richness of Arab culture,
leading to Europeans' desire for Arab goods, which in turn led to trade
routes between Europe and the Middle East. The resulting wealth created from
that trade with the Arabs led to the ascendancy of power for European
city-states such as Venice and Florence, which became the birthplaces of the
Renaissance in Europe. Arab advancements in navigation, from the Astrolabe
to the compass to the fast sailing ship known as the Caravel made possible
the arrival in the New World of the Europeans. Let's not forget, Spain and
Portugal, those two powers who held a virtual monopoly on exploration in the
New World for quite a while, were, for 700 years, held by the Arabs.

What will gall Americans even more, especially those who call themselves
Christian, is the idea that it may be the Arab and Muslim culture that will
be not only the birthplace of Western Civilization, but the savior of it as
well.

As evidenced by the nightly news right now, there is a war going on.
Superficially, it is about things like "terrorism" and "freedom." There are
some who go a step further and blame oil and banking, not to mention
"lebensraum" for Israel. And while all these things do play a part, some
greater than others, the real war here is between two world views.

During the debates that took place in the UN between the internationalist
cabal led by France, Germany, Russia, Belgium, and China on one side and the
nationalists led by the United States, Great Britain, (and behind the
scenes, Israel,) there was this "tossing around" of phrases in coded
language. The nationalist crowd, represented in the debates by Colin Powell,
spoke of "Old Europe" in a castigating attempt to portray those opposing the
war against Iraq as somehow backwards in their thinking, as opposed to those
in the New World, who were enlightened and were here to save all humanity
against dangerous men and dangerous ideas. And although we know that the
reasons for the internationalist crowd opposing the war against Iraq had
little to do with anything other than protecting their own business
interests as well as staving off US hegemony in the world in favor of
internationalist hegemony, it did illustrate that there is, at least on the
part of the "coalition of the willing" a desire to do away with that ethos
held by the Old World (meaning the Middle-East) that serves as an obstacle
in building that New World Order that Bush the Elder discussed more than a
decade ago, even if it means seeing the US leading it rather than the UN.

To the "New World," and by default the New World Order, the Arab/Muslim
world is backwards in its values. It prohibits abortion and birth control.
They have large families, as opposed to the West, where the average family
has only 2 children. It prohibits usury banking, to which the West credits
its own economic superiority. Theirs is a "closed" society (read into this
no sodomy, pornography, gay lifestyle, et al) Theirs is a "cruel" society
(read into this-they do not have people on death row for 20 years) And
finally, they will not play the game the way the market wants it played,
meaning, they want a just price for their only real source of wealth, their
oil, instead of giving it away to the West for a fraction of its worth. In
other words, the picture that has just been painted here is, the Muslim
world is now what the Christian world once was and should be.

One can already hear the roar coming out of the mouths of many who have not
been thinking of this in a critical way, particularly those well-paid
mouthpieces on TV and radio masquerading themselves as Christians. "The
religion of Mohammed is better than the religion of Jesus Christ?!" No,
rather, what is meant here is that the religion of Islam resembles
Christianity more than does the Christianity of the West today, because the
Christianity of the West today isn't Christianity at all, but a watered-down
amalgamation of New Ageism mixed with certain common spiritual attributes
that, although called Christian, can be found in almost every known
religion. Through decades of destructive influence and propaganda through
media and academia, mainstream Christianity in the West has been reduced to
one remaining commandment, vague and hard to pin-point which is "be nice."

The fact of the matter is, putting aside all the other reasons surrounding
this war that were enumerated at the beginning of this essay, what exists in
the Middle East, or in The Old World, as some would call it, is a culture
that is still devoted to principles concerning basic moral values, values
that have not yet surrendered to the corrupting influence of Western media
or Western money. Within the last 50 years, every culture has fallen before
this corrupting power that seeks to enslave all men in such a way that the
individual is reduced to the value of what he produces and what he consumes,
and in pursuit of that method, the individuals behind this program have
quietly but decisively removed every obstacle in their way, be it religion,
culture, morals, tradition, or world view, through the methods of media,
academia, and finance; that is, except the culture encapsulated in the
Islamic/Arabic World.

By the description "Arabic/Islamic," it should not be understood as solely a
"Muslim" thing. The culture existing in the Arab world is held by both
Christian and Muslim alike. There are millions of Christians, who have in
essence the same culture with their Muslim counterparts in much the same way
as most Americans, regardless of religion, have the same culture. It is
those Christians and Muslims alike who reject these "modern" notions such as
abortion, birth control, sodomy, pornography, usury banking, and "market
value" of services and resources. They still view the family, the
traditional family, with all its traditional roles, as the most important
building block of their society, and they take very seriously anything that
threatens it. They recognize the value of their children, and how dangerous
the moral relativism of the West has become, threatening the stability of
society directly. They recognize that if their children and society as a
whole are subjected to ideas that promote moral decay for an extended period
of time, what will eventually and unavoidably be produced is national decay.

One should consider the fact that the New World Order has used and is using
all its resources and influence to emasculate and neutralize all opposition
to its agenda in the world. The Catholic Church, once a political power to
be feared by presidents and prime ministers the world over, has been
rendered obsolete. Through mouthpieces such as John Paul II, the New World
Order has been openly embraced, and if at times the church gets a little
rambunctious and steps out of line, well, the NWO crowd merely runs new
stories revealing allegations of pedophilia and abuse. The mainstream
Protestant groups, led by influential people on the television and radio,
may talk of the dangers of the NWO and the secularization of the West, yet
still openly embrace Bush when he pushes through various pieces of
legislation that rob us of our freedoms under the guise of protection from
terrorism, as well as the practice of conveniently "forgetting" about Bush's
caving in to the pro-abortion lobby in various instances. So, with the
exception of a few pockets of token resistance, there is no one left
standing in the way of the NWO except the Arab/Muslim World.

If by some miracle the Arab/Muslim world is victorious against this
onslaught, and the secular/atheistic influence of the NWO agenda is reduced
to such a level as to allow the Christian West to regain its foothold where
it once stood, it will be necessary to credit the religion of Islam and the
Arab world for not buckling under in the face of extermination. And it will
be we, the Christian West and Western Civilization, who will be the
beneficiaries of "Islamic Extremism."

Mark Glenn is an American and former high school teacher turned writer /
commentator. He contributed above article to Media Monitors Network (MMN).

Islamic Extremism May Save Western Civilization

By Mark Glenn

It would shock and probably offend most Americans to learn the truth that
the reason they are here, their power, their affluence and position in the
world is directly because of the Islamic religion and the Arab culture.

's right, the very "ragheads" and "Hajis" (as Limbaugh, Liddy, and some of
the others often call them) that the US is now fighting are directly
responsible for the preeminence and power of not just the United States,

of the entire Western world in general.

Besides the fact that Western Civilization began in the area of the

Crescent, also known as Mesopotamia (present day Iraq), it is as well an
historical fact beyond dispute that it was the learning and sophistication
of the Arab culture that led to many of the scientific developments that
would later make Europe the cradle of science, learning, and advancement.
After the institutionalization of the Islamic religion throughout the
Mediterranean region, the extent of Arab learning and culture was such

European Kings, Christian Kings, would send their sons and daughters to be
educated in Moslem places such as Cordova and Toledo. Christian Crusaders
coming back from the Middle East told of the richness of Arab culture,
leading to Europeans' desire for Arab goods, which in turn led to trade
routes between Europe and the Middle East. The resulting wealth created

that trade with the Arabs led to the ascendancy of power for European
city-states such as Venice and Florence, which became the birthplaces of

Renaissance in Europe. Arab advancements in navigation, from the Astrolabe
to the compass to the fast sailing ship known as the Caravel made possible
the arrival in the New World of the Europeans. Let's not forget, Spain and
Portugal, those two powers who held a virtual monopoly on exploration in

New World for quite a while, were, for 700 years, held by the Arabs.

What will gall Americans even more, especially those who call themselves
Christian, is the idea that it may be the Arab and Muslim culture that

be not only the birthplace of Western Civilization, but the savior of it

well.

As evidenced by the nightly news right now, there is a war going on.
Superficially, it is about things like "terrorism" and "freedom." There

some who go a step further and blame oil and banking, not to mention
"lebensraum" for Israel. And while all these things do play a part, some
greater than others, the real war here is between two world views.

During the debates that took place in the UN between the internationalist
cabal led by France, Germany, Russia, Belgium, and China on one side and

nationalists led by the United States, Great Britain, (and behind the
scenes, Israel,) there was this "tossing around" of phrases in coded
language. The nationalist crowd, represented in the debates by Colin

spoke of "Old Europe" in a castigating attempt to portray those opposing

war against Iraq as somehow backwards in their thinking, as opposed to

in the New World, who were enlightened and were here to save all humanity
against dangerous men and dangerous ideas. And although we know that the
reasons for the internationalist crowd opposing the war against Iraq had
little to do with anything other than protecting their own business
interests as well as staving off US hegemony in the world in favor of
internationalist hegemony, it did illustrate that there is, at least on

part of the "coalition of the willing" a desire to do away with that ethos
held by the Old World (meaning the Middle-East) that serves as an obstacle
in building that New World Order that Bush the Elder discussed more than a
decade ago, even if it means seeing the US leading it rather than the UN.

To the "New World," and by default the New World Order, the Arab/Muslim
world is backwards in its values. It prohibits abortion and birth control.
They have large families, as opposed to the West, where the average family
has only 2 children. It prohibits usury banking, to which the West credits
its own economic superiority. Theirs is a "closed" society (read into this
no sodomy, pornography, gay lifestyle, et al) Theirs is a "cruel" society
(read into this-they do not have people on death row for 20 years) And
finally, they will not play the game the way the market wants it played,
meaning, they want a just price for their only real source of wealth,

oil, instead of giving it away to the West for a fraction of its worth. In
other words, the picture that has just been painted here is, the Muslim
world is now what the Christian world once was and should be.

One can already hear the roar coming out of the mouths of many who have

been thinking of this in a critical way, particularly those well-paid
mouthpieces on TV and radio masquerading themselves as Christians. "The
religion of Mohammed is better than the religion of Jesus Christ?!" No,
rather, what is meant here is that the religion of Islam resembles
Christianity more than does the Christianity of the West today, because

Christianity of the West today isn't Christianity at all, but a

amalgamation of New Ageism mixed with certain common spiritual attributes
that, although called Christian, can be found in almost every known
religion. Through decades of destructive influence and propaganda through
media and academia, mainstream Christianity in the West has been reduced

one remaining commandment, vague and hard to pin-point which is "be nice."

The fact of the matter is, putting aside all the other reasons surrounding
this war that were enumerated at the beginning of this essay, what exists

the Middle East, or in The Old World, as some would call it, is a culture
that is still devoted to principles concerning basic moral values, values
that have not yet surrendered to the corrupting influence of Western media
or Western money. Within the last 50 years, every culture has fallen

this corrupting power that seeks to enslave all men in such a way that the
individual is reduced to the value of what he produces and what he

and in pursuit of that method, the individuals behind this program have
quietly but decisively removed every obstacle in their way, be it

culture, morals, tradition, or world view, through the methods of media,
academia, and finance; that is, except the culture encapsulated in the
Islamic/Arabic World.

By the description "Arabic/Islamic," it should not be understood as solely

"Muslim" thing. The culture existing in the Arab world is held by both
Christian and Muslim alike. There are millions of Christians, who have in
essence the same culture with their Muslim counterparts in much the same

as most Americans, regardless of religion, have the same culture. It is
those Christians and Muslims alike who reject these "modern" notions such

abortion, birth control, sodomy, pornography, usury banking, and "market
value" of services and resources. They still view the family, the
traditional family, with all its traditional roles, as the most important
building block of their society, and they take very seriously anything

threatens it. They recognize the value of their children, and how

the moral relativism of the West has become, threatening the stability of
society directly. They recognize that if their children and society as a
whole are subjected to ideas that promote moral decay for an extended

of time, what will eventually and unavoidably be produced is national

One should consider the fact that the New World Order has used and is

all its resources and influence to emasculate and neutralize all

to its agenda in the world. The Catholic Church, once a political power to
be feared by presidents and prime ministers the world over, has been
rendered obsolete. Through mouthpieces such as John Paul II, the New World
Order has been openly embraced, and if at times the church gets a little
rambunctious and steps out of line, well, the NWO crowd merely runs new
stories revealing allegations of pedophilia and abuse. The mainstream
Protestant groups, led by influential people on the television and radio,
may talk of the dangers of the NWO and the secularization of the West, yet
still openly embrace Bush when he pushes through various pieces of
legislation that rob us of our freedoms under the guise of protection from
terrorism, as well as the practice of conveniently "forgetting" about

caving in to the pro-abortion lobby in various instances. So, with the
exception of a few pockets of token resistance, there is no one left
standing in the way of the NWO except the Arab/Muslim World.

If by some miracle the Arab/Muslim world is victorious against this
onslaught, and the secular/atheistic influence of the NWO agenda is

to such a level as to allow the Christian West to regain its foothold

it once stood, it will be necessary to credit the religion of Islam and

Arab world for not buckling under in the face of extermination. And it

be we, the Christian West and Western Civilization, who will be the
beneficiaries of "Islamic Extremism."

Mark Glenn is an American and former high school teacher turned writer /
commentator. He contributed above article to Media Monitors Network (MMN).