The attack on the Christchurch mosques has gained global attention, being one of the worst anti-Muslim atrocities in the Western world. Having said that, Muslims have killed many, many more Christians and members of their own religion in their attacks on the West, and hundreds of thousands in their own states.
It’s worth parsing the moral positions on this attack to observe the ironies. This incident is New Zealand’s first shot in Islam’s war on the West, and it’s a matter of intense regret to me that it was fired by Westerners. As with Norway’s Anders Breivik, the gunman used jihadi-style tactics, those that Muslim terrorists use several times every day throughout the world.[1] It is a direct copy of commonplace attacks on Christian churches in Egypt.[2] If Islamic State wasn’t on the back foot, they’d be suing this creature for cultural appropriation.
Such an attack by Westerners on Muslims results in an acutely negative outcome for the attacker’s likely motive. Muslims claim victimhood and invoke sympathy. The country comes together in their defence. The Prime Minister encourages Muslims to feel at home here. Global reaction is one of horror. How can Westerners do to Muslims what Muslims routinely try to do to Westerners? The Muslim Brotherhood strategists themselves could not have planned it better to achieve favourable results for New Zealand’s Muslim community.
Yet New Zealanders are unlikely to understand the motivation of this terrorist. A cocooned naivety about Islam renders the attacker’s purpose incomprehensible. It will be dismissed as Islamophobia, bigotry and Right-wing extremism. The more likely reason, understanding the danger that Islam represents to Western civilisation, values and virtues, will be overwhelmed by the disgust that this counter-productive action caused. No commentator, at least that I have heard, has questioned why Muslims were targeted. It wasn’t Hindus that were attacked, even with twice the population and an overlapping racial profile.
Laying it on the line, Islam is the most egregious manifestation of evil in the 21st century, notwithstanding this particular act. Its three arms of conquest, jihad, preaching and migration, are actively supported by the extreme Left. There are other issues stopping Westerners’ awareness of Islam’s hegemonic conquest, even as its blatant progress is a matter of daily news, but it goes beyond the scope of this essay. Nonetheless, the Left’s actions have marginalised a significant portion of the populace, and their only defenders damage the situation further by resorting to this hideous act.
The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is demonstrably false just as Christianity being a religion of peace is demonstrably true.[3] Jihadi violence is an Islamic prerogative[4] and while a warranted response is one of jus bellum justum, just war, its complexity means that Western reaction is limited to the barely adequate responses of defend, deter and prevent. Given Max Weber’s dictum that “the state…lays claim to the monopoly on the legitimated use of physical force”, the action by these attackers is impermissible in terms of Western morality and legality. Not so for Muslims. With Islam’s policy of retributive subsidiarity, it is the responsibility of every Muslim to bring the non-Islamic world, dar al-harb or the land of war, into submission to the will of Allah by all means necessary.
FIANZ spokesman Dr Mustafa Farouk said that many Muslims migrated to New Zealand because of its safety. Given the threat that Islam presents to the West, the lesson that Muslims might not be so safe here might be of benefit to New Zealand. The greater loss, however, is New Zealand’s sense of peace and security.
[1] 34,720 attacks by Islamic terrorists since 9/11. This is an average of about 5.5 attacks every day. https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
[3] …since 1946, the more Christian a nation is, the less likely it is to initiate an international conflict. Islam, on the other hand, shows the opposite trend, with more Islamic nations being more likely to start a war. Professor Davis Brown, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, http://www.researchonreligion.org/religion-politics/davis-brown-on-religion-initiating-war-and-data
[4] Koran 8:12 - “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.” There are another 108 Koranic verses and many hadiths calling for violence against non-believers.
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