Last night I was watching the movie, "An American in Paris," a nostalgic
trip back to those giddy post-bellum times in Paris before Algeria’s silent invasion
and France’s suicidal social programs. And it reminded me a little of the
Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein song “The Last Time I Saw Paris” which lamented
how Paris was before the Nazi takeover. In this movie, Gene Kelly and Lesley
Carone gave us a reprise of a later peaceful Paris which, I am afraid, may not exist again for many years.
Why am I so pessimistic? Obviously the current developments
in Iraq and Syria are partly to blame … but it really runs much deeper than
that. Just a few days ago I viewed a video of Moroccan soccer fans chanting in
favor of the ISIS barbarianism and the blooming of jihad. See the
disturbing video here:
CNS News.
If these relatively westernized Moroccan soccer fans can exhibit such open
hostility to non-Muslims, then I am afraid that we are in for a long slog back
to a peaceful world.
Now, this combined with trillions of petro-dollars sloshing
around the Middle East, many generations of Muslim resentment over the fall of the
Ottoman Empire, the West’s attempt to atone for the atrocities of World War II
with the creation of Israel, disproportionate birth rates between the Middle East
and the West, generations of lax European/U.S. immigration rules combined with porous borders, and an Islamo-tropic president in the United States … all have given the Muslim world a feeling that they are
destiny’s children.
And perhaps they are …
Afterthought: But two questions persist ... 1) Will these destiny's children be Sunni or Shi'a? and 2) How will Russia, China and India react to this growing threat of a world-wide caliphate?
