“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome .”

neo: With all due respect, I doubt the existence of any significant number of “moderate Germans” during the Nazi era, who were not laying so low that they could not be discerned. As a practical matter, there isn’t much difference between such a group and those who were indifferent. The White Rose was a tiny fraction of the German nation. The Soviet spy apparat in Nazi Germany was larger than the entirety of the actual civilian opposition to the Nazi regime, until of course the war ended and the Allies occupied Germany. Then, all the “moderate Germans” protested to our occupying forces that they were cowed by the Nazi terror into submission. Entirely too convenient to be believed, but irrelevant because one who doesn’t actively resist is genuinely in opposition.

They start sleeping on your front lawn and and presenting themselves as social peers deserving of tax funded solidarity, and all bets are off.

Modern Liberalism, kills itself. Unfortunately it kills anyone else that comes into unwilling contact with it as well.

Incorrect analogy.

Those were “moderate Nazis.”

The proper analogy is “moderate Germans”—who were anti-Nazi but not activist. The activists were the underground or other anti-Nazi activists, some of whom got killed. There were many anti-Nazi Germans who laid low. They were intimidated into silence, and afraid, and hoped to merely survive, but they hated the Nazis. There were plenty of people like that, and many of them died because they were residing in Germany and/or even fought in the war because they were drafted. I have said that in wartime that is what happens.

You may recall that the Nazis only ever got about a third of German votes in a fair election.

The difference between a religious fanatic and me is a religious fanatic believes in God more than I do.

Remember a few years back, when a French Rabbi and his two sons were killed by a Mohammedan? The killer also killed two moderate Muslims because there weren’t being Muslim enough.