Frontpage Mag A new masterwork by Robert Spencer.
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It’s official: the list of Robert Spencer’s books is now longer than some books. No, not really, but it’s getting there. I frankly don’t know how he does it, because everything he writes is terrific. And although he keeps returning to his chief (but hardly his only) topic, namely Islam, he always has new information and new insights to offer – indeed, whole new angles to explore. So it is with his extremely engaging new volume, The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses. As he himself writes in his acknowledgments, he has “tried to express here something that doesn’t appear in my other books.” And what is that something? Well, in those other books, Spencer has delved into such topics as the life of Muhammed, the possible non-existence of Muhammed, the Koran, jihad, stealth jihad, the Crusades, and Islam’s treatment of women. This time around, his emphasis is on “exposing the contradictions” in the lies that Westerners have been told, since 9/11, “about the superior morals and history of the culture that has given rise to numerous deadly terror attacks.”
Needless to say, it’s depressing that in the wake of so many deadly terror attacks, and in the wake of countless other demonstrations of the radical shortcomings of Islam, such exposure should even be necessary. But it is. Millions of Americans actually believe that a U.S. under sharia would be just fine – or perhaps even better than what we have now. It wouldn’t. “In keeping with Islamic law,” explains Spencer, “a majority-Muslim United States would likely criminalize behaviors that Islam forbids: the sale and consumption of alcohol and pork, the use of interest in financial transactions, and more. The veil would almost certainly be made mandatory for women, as it is in the Islamic Republic of Iran and other Sharia states. Certain behaviors, such as homosexual acts, fornication, and adultery could also be criminalized, while polygamy would be legalized.” Every American should know such things by now. It’s the fault of our politicians, journalists, and educators that millions don’t.
Oh, and one more thing: if America were to turn Islamic, the economy would tank. America’s wealth, you see, was created by the Protestant work ethic; the poverty of Muslim countries – except, naturally, for those that have reaped the benefits of oil wealth – is owing to Islam’s utter lack of a work ethic. This goes all the way back to Muhammed, who, instead of encouraging his followers to become farmers or merchants or tradesmen, urged them to raid and steal and plunder; as Spencer writes, he inculcated in them “an aversion to manual labor,” a belief that “work is a curse,” and “a spirit of parasitism,” whereby the wealth of Islamic polities has always been derived almost exclusively from the labor of subjugated peoples. No subjugated peoples, then, no wealth. Hence Islam, when it lacks a hard-working, productive class of subordinate heathens, is nothing more than a formula for poverty – a fact that has resulted, over history, in a series of Muslim polities that Spencer calls “failed societies.” Yes, thanks to its fixation on conquest, Islam may well have done a remarkable job of expanding over the centuries, but what exactly did it bring to its newly conquered territories other than ignorance, intolerance, and a demand that their new underlings provide them with the cash they themselves were incapable of earning?
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