Critiquing Islamism

Geert Wilders, visiting Canada for speaking engagements is no hate-monger. He is a man devoted to the truth that he sees around him in Europe everywhere he looks. His contentions are supported by facts on the ground, by incendiary acts of brutal slaughter committed by Muslim fanatics.

He sees evidence of an concerted struggle meant to advance Islam and Sharia law wherever large numbers of Muslim immigrants settle outside their countries of origin. And he takes umbrage at the very vision and purpose and advances that he and countless others like him - including those sleep-walking into the future who deny the obvious - see taking place.

The transformation of European, non-Muslim culture, social mores, values and laws into a semblance of one reflecting what Muslims deem suitable in recognizing their needs as paramount over those of the people who have long resided in the countries to which Muslims now migrate. Where the prevailing culture and even the architecture has been subordinated to that of the immigrant population.

Mr. Wilders recognizes Islam as quite unique as an institutional crucible of terror. For it has become abundantly clear that Islam breeds the world's most dangerous, psychopathic fanatics. Even those who have not been trained as jihadis, mass themselves in outraged mobs in response to perceived insults to Islam and Islamic principles. No one is permitted to make light of Islam, or to question the exalted position of its Prophet.

Islam, in accord to what anyone with a credible amount of intelligence and the ability to parse world events can see is a creed posing as a religion. A religion cradling a foundational ideology of enslavement and domination. It begins by enslaving its faithful to an unforgiving life of complete subjection to nonsensical rules and regulations formulated to withdraw free will, replacing it with surrender of self to the dogmatism of a towering spiritual figure demanding obeisance.

Followers must be obedient, acknowledging their insignificance other than as creatures of this significant spiritual figure. As a human construct, Islam is a brilliant and devious plot to fashion people into submissive herds of worshippers. Where men are given dominance over women whose sole purpose is to bring forth new generations of worshippers, while cleaving to their husbands' demands.

And men must obey the imams and the mullahs and the ayatollahs who convey the word of the Koran alerting followers to the need to be ever alert to the struggle within corresponding to the struggle without. This careful nurturing of the ummah to accept the rule of tyrants and dictators conforming to the submissive nature of Islam's demands ensures Muslims accept the abuse of their human rights.

And accept also that the struggle is one of conquest of the only true religion, against those of infidels. Violence of message, of thought and of execution. Fairly straightforward. Confirming Mr. Wilders' message that "Islam has one form" and its essence is that of a violence-prone, war-mongering creed.