BorealFAREWELL POSTINGSRisking the Wrath of the Enemy WithinJanuary 14, 2025 Islamism is commonly expressed as the desire to enforce a version of Shari’ah as law… An Islamist attempts to impose his version of Islam on society, and a jihadist is an Islamist who attempts to do so by force… Political Islamists seek to impose their views through the ballot box, biding their time until they can infiltrate the institutions of society from within. Maajid Nawaz, author of Radical, My Journey out of Islamist Extremism Labels Jihadists and Islamists are the enemy within. Should one of their numbers, in the mold of Muhammad who had his critics killed when he got the chance, want to do the same to me and not make a mistake, a recent picture of yours truly is on the cover. You’re welcome. THE ENEMY WITHIN (Abbreviated excerpt from Remembering Uzza, Boreal Books) Uzza: Could I have an adult drink now, please. They are not coming back tonight. If anything, they are waiting somewhere to teach me a lesson. Archie, do you mind? (extends her empty glass of apple juice.) Archie: When you came in you said you wanted a beer. How about a nice glass of white wine? On the house. Uzza: Just like in heaven. Archie: What do you mean? Uzza: In Paradise there are rivers of wine in which the believers can dip their cups and toast Allah − and, for the privileged class, special wines aged in some kind of container sealed with musk. Archie: Why would Allah outlaw wines here but allow them in heaven? Uzza: There was a time when Allah bragged about wine being one of the signs of His Beneficence. Then wine became a sin in which there was some benefit. Then no benefits at all; wine became an abomination, something the devil concocted. Archie: You haven’t answered my question. Uzza: A drunk and disorderly believer could have embarrassed Muhammad without intending to and could not be trusted to carry out his orders without fail. Reason enough, I think, for Allah to make sure that didn’t happen. Archie: Then, why all the pussyfooting? Uzza: Allah does not pussyfoot, if that is even a word. He may have wanted to wait until Muhammad was strong enough to enforce His decree before making wine an abomination. I do not know. And, can I give you back this damn veil? It only empowers women to do what men want them to do. Where is the fun in that? Archie: No, but you can take it off and keep it close by. And you must promise to put it back on if you see someone come up the stairs. Uzza: I promise. Gerry: And don't worry, I will walk you home or to your car, if you want. Uzza: Thank you, but my being seen with a man other than a husband or close relative will only make it worse. Gerry, Johnny, Bob: [raising their glasses] Cheers! Uzza: [does not raise her glass, nor does she take a sip, but stares straight ahead.] Johnny: Anything wrong? Uzza: You let in them in. Bob: I thought Archie let them in. Archie: You're not talking about those people, are you? Uzza: Not just them, all of them. People like that should never have been allowed in our country. Archie: But, they are your people? Uzza: No, they are not. They are from another century. Archie: And what century would that be? Uzza: The 7th century. They consider Western civilization a mistake that must be rectified by a return to what they consider the good old days when Muhammad and what he said was the Will of God was the law, the only law, the Sharia. You let in those for whom the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, reason itself is a blasphemy. Archie: That explains a lot; the craziness, I mean. Uzza: You let in those who did not come seeking our way of life but to change it thinking you would change them, and Muslims who came here to escape the shackles of the Sharia are paying the price of your arrogance, a price you will all have to pay sooner rather than later. Archie: I’m paying right now. Uzza: You welcomed this Islamic population into my grandfather's adopted country, you fed them, you housed them, you gave them benefits that others had worked for, you bent over backwards to appease them, you forced everyone to tolerate them, and you encouraged their religion to thrive. Archie: We did that, alright. Maybe we’re the crazy ones. Uzza: You gave them economics opportunities not available to more upstanding citizens which allowed them to fund what my father warned was a hidden agenda. They lied to you, they told you they were peaceful and wanted nothing else but to be fine, upstanding citizens and abide by your laws. They accepted your food, your housing, your benefits, your kindness but they never accepted your culture which they viewed as weak and immoral, nor your beliefs which they equated as being anti-Islam. They now secretly hide and protect the bombers and beheaders within their communities, the so-called Islamic Municipalities into which the authorities dare not venture. They grew strong on your misplaced generosity and tolerance. One day in the not-too-distant future they will receive the call, in Arabic, from the Muslim hate preachers of the mosques you have so generously allowed them to build so they can preach their Islamic bile and rise up and finish what you started when you let them in[28]. ----- [28] Dialogue beginning with "You welcome this Islamic population" adapted from a response by an individual who goes by the pseudonym Haïm Ittah to an Ottawa Citizen story about the Nice truck attack which killed 84 people including 10 children.
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