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Yesterday, the barrier between Spain and Morocco broke, as up to 60,000 young, military-aged Muslim men swam from Morocco past the border at Ceuta and Melilla into Spain. The incentives were twofold.
The first was that Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s hard-socialist president, announced that illegal aliens in Spain who applied for legal status would receive it. The second was that the leftist Supreme Court announced that, while those who entered Spain over a land border could instantly be turned away, those who entered through a waterway would instantly be registered as asylum seekers, entitled to a full hearing. Spain’s geography and the shared coastline between Morocco, Ceuta, and Melilla made the outcome obvious.
We also know why Spain’s leftists are happy to welcome Muslims: As leftists, they hate their national heritage and everything it stands for. When Spain parted ways with its Catholic past, it did what leftist nations do when they abandon the Biblical faiths: It stopped having children. Its birthrate is almost half the rate needed for a nation to maintain its population, let alone grow.
Spain and Islam also share a common cause: hatred for America and Israel, specifically, and the West, generally. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and all that.
But President Sanchez unwittingly hit upon one other reason the left loves Islam, and that’s Islam’s powerful and compatible spiritual essence. Spirituality and leftism? That sounds ridiculous, but give me a minute to make my case.
This idea came from a New York Times op-ed in which President Sanchez argued for allowing unlimited numbers of illegal aliens from across the Muslim world:
We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies or open and prosperous ones. Growth or retreat: Those are the two options before us. And by growth, I’m not talking only about material gain, but also our spiritual development.
“Spiritual development”?! What in the world is he talking about?
Well, it occurred to me that he may be on to something. Leftism is nihilistic. It believes only in the state, and the state is an infinitely changing entity that responds to and sets rules for the needs of those in power.
Leftism offers no solutions to the fundamental, existential issues: Why am I here? (You’re a parasite. The state thinks most of you should die.) Why shouldn’t I murder, rob, cheat, assault, sleep with my sister, etc.? (You’re free to do so, as long as it benefits the state.) What happens at the end? (You’re dead. Just dead.)
Islam is different. For starters, it believes in itself. In Europe, Christianity is a dead letter.
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Sure, there are pockets of Christians, but leftism either wipes out Christians or, what may even be worse, it coopts them. So you have a Pope who encourages unassimilable Muslims to enter Europe illegally, or leftism has churches that preach that God is utterly wrong when it comes to that whole gender binary thing, that homosexual sex should be encouraged, that marital sex is a farce, and that God really expects nothing of anybody. Priests in various faiths announce that they’re not even sure there is a God, so they’re kind of riffing the whole thing.
Islam is different. It stands for something. And here’s what’s really great about what it stands for: It stands for a lot of the things leftists love.
My cousin, who converted from being a Jewish atheist to Christianity, and then became a pastor, spent decades working in the Virginia prison system. Many years ago, he wrote an email to me that stated something very profound about how common it was for prisoners to convert to Islam. What’s significant is that they didn’t do so because they felt remorse for their crimes, repented, and sought redemption. Instead, something very different was going on:
It is not a contradiction to be a Muslim and a murderer, even a mass murderer. That is one reason why criminals “convert” to Islam in prison. They don’t convert at all; they simply remain the angry, judgmental, vicious beings they always have been. They simply add “religious” diatribes to their personal invective. Islam does not inspire a crisis of conscience, just inspirations to outrage.
And there it is: The “spiritual” nexus between Islam and socialism.
For socialists, Islam is everything they want, plus it answers the big questions: Why am I here?
To serve Allah.
Why shouldn’t I murder, rob, cheat, assault, sleep with my sister, etc.?
You’re free to do so, as long as it benefits Islam.
And then there’s the kicker: What happens at the end?
It’s not the end. You ascend to Paradise. If you’ve been a soldier for the cause, you get a wonderful paradise, plus endless sex with 72 women, a good sales pitch for leftist men.
If you’re a regular guy, you get to live in a wonderful paradise, complete with sex with your “purified” spouses, something that will work for leftist men.
As for women, they get to be young, free of negative emotions, material goods, and surrounded by friends and family…but no sex. For leftist women, riddled with angry emotions and utterly degraded and demoralized by hook-up culture, this may actually end up sounding very good.
We’ve long thought that there’ll be a war at the end between the Muslims and the leftists, with the world going to the last ideology standing. Listening to President Sanchez, I suspect that all but the most die-hard leftists will be easily sold on Muslim conversions.
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