Kim Ghattas’s book, Black Wave, describes the revolutionary fervor which swept across much of the Muslim world in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The movement was marked by the sudden reappearance of a wave of black hijabs, abayas, and burqas in countries in which the wearing of such symbols of submission had all but disappeared.
During this period, millions of Muslims converted. But they didn’t convert away from Islam. Rather, they converted from a passive and conventional form of Islam to a more militant and expansionist form.
Having re-Islamized much of the Muslim world, Islamists have in recent years set their sights on the conversion of the West.
But is a conversion of that magnitude possible? In his best-selling novel, Submission, Michel Houllebecq describes how it is possible and even probable. But although many Christians and other non-Muslims do convert to Islam each year, we haven’t yet seen the landslide-type shift to Islam predicted in Submission.
But we may be getting there. In 2013, Nazma Khan founded World Hijab Day, an annual event “to raise awareness and normalize the wearing of the hijab.” The event was intended to present the hijab as a symbol of a woman’s right to choose what she wants to wear. World Hijab Day was soon being celebrated in hundreds of colleges and universities. And thousands of young women and young men fell for the pitch that the hijab is somehow liberating.
The ease with which large numbers of college students succumbed to the notion that the hijab is a beautiful symbol of freedom is one indication that many young people are highly susceptible to propaganda campaigns.
Another indication of youthful susceptibility to dubious trends is the trans craze which is now sweeping through our society. The notion that a boy can become a girl and a girl, a boy flies in the face of both science and religion. Yet faith in the reality of this miraculous transition is spreading rapidly. In the UK, for example, the number of children and young adults who identify as transgender increased by 4,000 percent between 2009 and 2018. And according to the Daily Caller, the Montgomery County public school district in Maryland saw a 582% increase in the number of students identifying as gender non-conforming over the last two years.
Moreover, according to one report, 40 percent of liberal arts college students now claim to be LGBTQ. This includes 61 percent of Wellesley students and 70 percent of students at Smith.
Dr. Lisa Littman of Brown University suggests that the explosive rise in the number of adolescents identifying as trans is largely a factor of peer contagion—not only pressure from other students at school but also from social media peer influencers on the internet. Sadly, instead of countering the contagion, schools often compound it. Teachers introduce students to books about transgender ‘celebrities’ such as Jazz Jennings, and schools keep insisting that all identities should be celebrated.
What does the trans craze have to do with conversions to Islam? The point is that if peers, schools, and social media can accelerate one trend, they can accelerate another. If they can normalize trans, they can normalize Islam. In fact, as I have noted, universities have already become willing participants in the campaign to normalize hijabs. Would they become willing participants in a campaign to stifle criticism of Islam? Of course, they would. They already have. Over the last dozen or so years Arab Gulf-State kingdoms have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to American universities to ensure that students gain only a favorable impression of Islam.
Would the spread of Islam be good for our society? You might as well ask if the spread of transgenderism is good for society. By and large, educators don’t ask those kinds of questions. Educators at all levels are much more interested in fashion—fashions in ideas, fashions in religions, fashions in sexuality and gender, and fashions in historical revisionism (e.g., racism explains everything). Educators may say they are interested in the common good, but they tend to equate the common good with what’s happening now.
Are drag queens in vogue? Then the kids need to know right away. How else can they choose an identity unless they know all the available identities? That’s the way a significant number of educators and their influencers think. Few of them question whether it’s good to normalize drag. The only question for them is “how can we expose kids to more drag?” And their answer, more likely than not, will be to institute a mandatory “drag pride day” during which the queens can display their wares to the kids.
Which reminds me: “International Day to Combat Islamophobia” is fast approaching. Last March, the United Nations declared March 15 to be the annual date for marking the need to combat “Islamophobia.” Why March 15? Because on that date in 2019, a white man killed 51 Muslims during prayer services at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques.
Doubtless, the educational activists and influencers are already drawing up plans for schools to mark this tragic day. The kids, they will argue, need to know about Islamophobia and they need to know that Islamophobia is caused by white supremacy.
It won’t matter that violent attacks on mosques by non-Muslims are a rarity. And it won’t matter that deadly attacks on Christian churches by Muslims are an almost daily occurrence in Africa.
What matters is that International Day to Combat Islamophobia will give educators an opportunity to portray Muslims as victims of Islamophobia—just as they’ve successfully managed to portray the transgender “community” as victims of transphobia. It will also provide an opportunity to invite Islamic speakers to come to school and explain that Islam stands for peace, justice, and equality for all. For good measure, the kids can be told about all the athletes, musicians, rappers, and other celebrities who have converted to Islam.
I’ve noted some similarities between the movement to normalize trans and the movement to create sympathy toward Islam. But there is a difference. The trans fad may turn out to be a transitory phenomenon. Transgenderism is so obviously out of touch with objective reality and so obviously harmful to children and adolescents that it may turn out to be a short-lived fad. Moreover, the fact that a strong organized parent resistance to transgenderism has arisen may hasten its demise.
Islam, on the other hand, is not a fad. Although there may currently be a faddish interest in Islam, Islam is a 1400-year-old faith. And it has a history of conquest and of conversion that we can’t afford to ignore. Islamic empires were among the largest in history, and in the first centuries of its existence, Islam managed to convert about half of the Christian world to itself. Moreover, in contrast to the transgender movement, the resurgence of Islam in recent decades has met with very little resistance. Although jihadi militants are often hunted down by armed forces –as, for example, in the Philippines—there has been little pushback against Islamic cultural jihad. For example, with a few exceptions, parents have been reluctant to resist the whitewashing of Islam in school curriculums. After all, Islam is a religion and there is a taboo in our culture against criticizing religions (except for Christianity, which is fair game). And then, of course, there is the fear factor. In France, teachers who aren’t sufficiently respectful of Muhammad risk decapitation. Thanks to the fear factor, French teachers are now reluctant to say anything remotely critical of Islam.
There are major differences between the trans fad and the growth of the Islamic faith. That’s not to say, however, that the trans mania doesn’t have any lessons to teach. Perhaps the most important lesson is that seemingly negligible trends can suddenly escalate into fast-spreading contagions. No one would have predicted ten years ago that the time would soon come when many young people would become desperate to declare themselves trans.
But that’s the trouble with straight-line projections of current trends. Such projections don’t take account of the fact that as trends become more popular and acceptable, they accelerate at a faster rate. Many projections predict that in countries such as England, France, and Germany, Islam will become the dominant faith within 30 to 40 years while Christianity will become a minority religion. But it could happen much sooner than that. Once the trend becomes clear to Christians, their level of discouragement will increase and so will their dropout rate. By the same token, as Islam appears more and more to be the coming thing, conversion rates will begin to grow exponentially.
The fact that Muslims make up only a small percentage of the U.S. population should not blind us to the fact of Islam’s rapid growth elsewhere. Many centuries ago, Islam converted Christian North Africa. Now it seems intent on converting the rest of Africa. Meanwhile, in France and other parts of Europe, military and security professionals warn that a clash with Islam is increasingly likely. And, since the average European is well beyond fighting age, that clash is likely to result in a capitulation to Islam.
If that happens, some of the blame will lie with all those in the media and education establishments who have been naively marketing Islam to the rest of us without calculating the consequences. Much of the burden of blame, however, must fall on the shoulders of Christian leaders, both Protestant and Catholic, who—especially in Europe—complacently looked on as newly-built mosques filled up, while churches emptied, parishes closed, and scandals spread.
Another factor in future capitulation to Islam both in Europe and America
is the role secular leaders of Western countries have played in pushing
Islam onto ordinary citizens.
In Europe beginning in 2015 by allowing legions of young Muslim men
to cross Germany’s borders – and by allowing illegal Muslim migrants
to inundate other countries of Western Europe. If that hasn’t given a
strong initial push to the Islamic takeover of Europe, I don’t know what
has.
Biden’s continuation of support for the Iranian Nuclear Deal – which
helps the Islamic Republic of Iran, an outspoken enemy of America
obtain the nuclear bomb – and Biden’s surrendering bowing and
scraping to the Muslim Taliban on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11
Jihad against the United States – a surrender-withdrawal in which
13 of our troops were assassinated, scores were injured and
billions of dollars in advanced military equipment was left behind
for the Taliban – tells Americans all they need to know about
what the White House thinks about Islam.
As this article points out – the “fad” of transgenderism has the
backing of the media and academia. It also has the full backing
of American secular leaders. (In the U.S. House of Representatives,
there is now a rule demanding that correct pronouns be used
when addressing a transgender.) What else has the full backing
of these three things here in America? That would be the trendy
and totalitarian ideology of Islam.
“The trans craze suggests that we are highly vulnerable.”
The collapse of reason in the West suggests that the West is highly vulnerable to any form of unreason. Would a Christianity unleashed, unshackled, and unmodified, by the dominance of reason over faith, i.e., a puritanical, medeival, Christianity be any less brutal than an Islam unleashed, unshackled, and unmodified by the dominance of reason over Muslim faith? Is a Christian Dark Age any better than a Muslim Dark Age, or a Soviet Dark Age, or a Nazi Dark Age, or a Transgender Dark Age?
The Nazis abandoned the Human Race, which is real, for the Aryan Race, which is unreal.
When men abandon reson they abandon their only means of acquiring objective knowledge about reality; they abandon reality for the unreal. When men abandon reason, some form of unreason and the unreal will fill the vacuum.
Probably there needs to be a combination and balancing of reason, faith, common sense and moral intuition, theory and practice. Reason alone or faith alone are not enough. Like a good chef combines ingredients carefully to obtain the best dish, a political system has to balance the different ingredients to make it work and produce good results. A lot of the worst political thinkers are highly rational persons. Take as an example Noam Chomsky and his misuse of reason in political discourse. Or all the pedantic professors who espouse postmodernist political and ethical ideas.
I am hoping, at some point you will actually embrace reason instead of jingoistic Objectivism
Convert, no; subjugate, perhaps if the “silent majority” remains silent.
It baffles me that anyone can convert to that religion, or indeed remain within it bearing in mind the truth of their prophet, a man in his fifties fancying a girl of 4, marrying her when 6 and consuming it when she was 8 or 9. . Grotesque. Plus the riots going on in Iran re the hijab.
consummating, sorry
I think that you were right the fist time ( consume )
Hopefully, with the decline of Christianity, it will be accompanied with a decline in Islam. And I think there are more conversions from Islam to Christianity.
Are those disgusting women in the Photo @ top wearing American Flags as Hijabs ?
That’s all you need to know about muslims !
Biden the Idiot lowers the Drawbridge, Opens the Gate and the Huns sneak in Typical of a Globalists/Democrat and Traitor just what the United Nations wants
And westerners are continuing to pay the Muslims to eat our food via the Halal Certification Schemes which have been in place and growing for years. I don’t know of any consumer organisation in the world that has mentioned let alone campaigned against this scam.
The future of western civilization is indeed bleak and depressing.
.Well, I tried to post my comment and it disappeared. Why?
My comment was perfectly reasonably under the circumstances…
To the author’s question, I would give an undoubted ‘Yes’.
The future of western Europe is Islamic, and as Islam takes Europe, the religion will gain a new lease on life.
I really dont understand why people, such as this Author, always mentions England and not the United Kingdom because I never hear such mentions of Minnesota rather than the United States of America.
England is not an Island.
So if I tell a wee muslim fellow that I think his religion appears to be very violent and he then turns around and attacks me very violently for saying such a thing then I have to wonder if he is being a good wee muslim fellow by doing so.
islam will conquer Europe, just by the birth rates let alone the forced conquest and killing that islam brings to us.
There is no stranger alliance than islamic teachings and those Of The Left as that is like watching a Rabbi wave and salute the Nazi Flag.
According to the latest UK census the UK is already a minority Christian state.
Admittedly that is because those choosing “no religion” as a response have increased dramatically rather than Xtians turning to other faiths.
But the other side of that is that when someone of “no religion” is faced with the age-old choice of the non-Muslim “become Muslim, become a destitute refugee [assuming such a place of refuge exists] or become dead” they will obviously choose Islam.
Many would choose so hypocritically of course, but Islam rails against such “fake” and “half-hearted” Muslims and in some interpretations orders them killed, so at least they would have to outwardly practice Islam
Further their children would have to have an “Islamic” education and so would be indoctrinated into orthodox Islam which means that subsequent generations would be more orthodox and “Islamic” than their parents.
Indeed we see already in the West where (some) second, third and plus generation Muslims are more orthodox than their parents and some become Jihadists, whereas their parents were more tolerant and assimilated, but who, in order to remain in good standing within the Islamic community, sent their children to the local Madrassah where orthodox teachers dominate.
Why did Liberals Democrats rush this Gay Marriage bill to be law ? Well, they know that if this meme were a billboard, it would end this silly LGBT debate overnight.
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