New York Sun

English original version: Roofing stone

French amendment: Alain Jean-Mairet

After having overcome the fascists and the Communists, will the Occident now manage to overcome the islamist ones?

At first sight, its military superiority seems to make its victory inevitable. Even if Teheran obtains the nuclear weapon, the Islamist ones do not have any military apparatus comparable with that of during the Second world war or with that of the Soviet Union during the cold war. In what the islamist ones can be measured in or the #CA685B Army? With the S or ? In or the ? Or in or Gulag?

However, a certain number of analysts, whose your servant, fear that the things are not so simple. The islamist ones (definite as being people who require to live according to the crowned law of Islam, the ) could indeed obtain much better results than the other . It could be even that they carry it. Because Occident, despite everything the power of its hardware, present of the bugs softwares which could be to him fatal. Three of them - pacifism, the hatred of oneself and self-satisfaction - deserves an special attention.

Pacifism. In the educated mediums, one nourishes today readily the conviction according to which “there does not exist military solution” with the current problems, one implemented to Lebanon, in Iraq, in Iran, in Afghanistan, with the Kurds, terrorism and the Israeli-Arab conflict. But this pragmatic pacifism wants to be unaware of that the modern history provides many examples of military solutions. What was thus the defeats of the Axis, the United States in Vietnam or the Soviet Union in Afghanistan if not the military solutions?

Hatred of oneself. Considerable elements several Western countries - in particular the United States, Great Britain and Israel - believe that their government is the trustee of the evil and regard current terrorism as the punishment of former sins. This attitude of “We saw the enemy: it is us” results in replacing an adequate counterpart by the only appeasing, accompanied by a provision to give up its traditions and its achievements. Thus, Usama Bin Laden honors by name with the leftists such as Robert and William . The Western partisans of the hatred of oneself are of an importance exaggerated because of their role of makers of opinion in the universities, the media, the religious institutions and arts. They are used with islamist as auxiliary.

Self-satisfaction. The absence of important islamist military presence inspires a feeling of scorn to many Westerners, especially on the left of the political arena. The conventional war, with its men in uniforms, its vessels and its aviation, its bloody battles with the conquest of grounds and resources, is easy to understand, but the asymmetrical war against the Radical Islam is . The use of and belts of explosives blocks the perception of such an enemy like an adversary worthy of this name. Thus, many are those which, like John Kerry, want to discuss terrorism like a simple “harmful effect”.

But the islamist ones deploy in fact of the frightening means largely exceeding the framework of local terrorism:

 A potential access to weapons of massive destruction able to destroy the Western life.

 A religious attraction which has deeper roots and exerts an influence more durable than the artificial ideologies of Fascism or Communism.

 An elaborate, financed and organized institutional aircraft in an impressive way, able to conquer its credibility, to cause the good wills and to conclude the electoral successfully.

 An ideology able to attract the Moslems of all kinds, the Lumpenproletariat to the privileged people, illiterates with the raftered academics, the people perfectly integrated into the last of the , Yemenis with the Canadians. The movement escapes any sociological definition almost.

 A nonviolent step - what I call “the legal Islamism” - which concretizes Islamization by means as well educational as political and religious, without resorting to the illegality or terrorism.

 Legal Islamism is essential successfully as well in countries on Moslem majority, like Algeria, as in countries where Islam is minority, as in the United Kingdom.

 A fantastic number engaged activists. If the islamist ones constitute 10 to 15% of the worldwide Muslim population, their payroll accounts for 125 to illion people, that is to say a number much higher than totality of the fascists and Communists having ever lived.

Pacifism, the hatred of oneself and the self-satisfaction prolong the war against the Radical Islam and cause useless victims. It seems extremely probable that the Westerners of left will be able to overcome this triple infirmity and to face the real extent of the threat only after having undergone human losses and material catastrophic. The civilized world should be essential all the same, but tardily and by paying an exaggerated price.

And if the islamist ones are skilful, avoids the massive destruction, concentrate on the share legal, political, nonviolent, and that their movement remains dynamic, it is difficult to see what could stop them.