'FRIGHTENING' INVASION OF U.S. UNDER WAY
'Today the Soviet Union has come to us'
By Paul Bremmer
The parents of FrontPage Magazine Managing Editor Jamie Glazov were Christian dissidents in Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union. The family fled the country in 1972, when Jamie was still a young boy, and thought they had left the USSR’s radical left-wing ideology behind forever.
Until now.
“I will tell you that we escaped the Soviet Union, but today the Soviet Union has come to us,” Glazov said in a May 2 speech at the 2015 Eagle Forum of California State Conference at Calvary Chapel Church in Costa Mesa. “And it’s very frightening, it’s depressing, it’s very, very scary for my family and for all of us to see what’s happening to the West.”
Since the fall of Soviet communism, Islam has become the top threat to America and the West, said Glazov. But it’s hard for anyone to speak up and condemn Islamic violence without being called a bigot.
“This is what is so frightening: When ISIS attacks, when Boko Haram attacks the little girls, when al-Qaida does what it’s doing, for some reason we have to go: ‘We’re sorry. We’re not racist. We’re not Islamophobic,’” Glazov told the audience.
He said the left has strangely reversed the roles of victim and perpetrator. The former Soviet emigrant pointed to the town of Rotherham, England, which suffered through an estimated 1,400 cases of sexual assault by Pakistani Muslim rape gangs from 1997 to 2013.
Most of the victims were young white girls. Rather than dealing with the crimes, local police and politicians covered them up for years, because they were afraid of being called racist.
Glazov charged that all those girls were sacrificed on the altar of “utopian leftist ideals.” He sees the Rotherham epidemic as analogous to some of history’s worst totalitarian slaughters.
“For the sake of this leftist philosophy, Stalinism happened, Maoism happened, Khmer Rouge happened, and now the killing fields in the United Kingdom, where Muslim rape gangs are reading the Quran, reading the Hadith, which justify kidnapping and raping the [non-Muslim women], and they’re doing it,” Glazov said.
“And we’re not allowed to say anything because, the way the left has shaped the discourse is, if we try to save the victims of Islamic gender apartheid, we’re racist.”
Glazov pointed out that no one in the establishment media ever says “Islam,” plain and simple, is the problem. They all blame “radical Islam” or “extremist radical Islam.” But they ignore that the Quran justifies heinous sex crimes against innocent women.
“Have you watched one program where they said, ‘Why have a million English girls been kidnapped and raped by Muslim rape gangs?’” Glazov asked. “And when did you ever see a guest like (Jihad Watch Director) Robert Spencer be invited and say: ‘Because of Sura 4:3 in the Quran. That’s why. And that’s why ISIS and Boko Haram point to that verse and all the other verses every time.’ But we’re not allowed to tell the truth.”
Those who criticize Islam for its barbaric practices are often derided as Islamophobic hatemongers, but Glazov argued nothing could be further from the truth.
“When you tell the truth about Islam, and when you tell the truth about what it teaches about slavery and subjugation of the kafir, you’re actually a loving human being who is supporting human rights and you also love Muslim people,” he said. “Because Muslim people are the victims of their totalitarian ideology.”
However, the left is winning the messaging war on Islam, and Glazov says it’s because they are loudly presenting their arguments in the public square while conservatives have mostly refused to put up a fight.
“You see, the left has an advantage,” Glazov informed the Eagle Forum audience. “The left has a religious mission. It’s just a secular religion. They’ve rejected God, but it’s a religious zeal, and they’re fighting 24/7.”
What is the “secular religion” that drives the left? According to Glazov, it’s the utopian vision of equality. He said the left’s goal is to create a “perfect” world where everyone is equal and all individual differences disappear.
Glazov showed the parallels between Islamic society and such a leftist utopia in his 2009 book, “United in Hate.” He pointed to the similarities between the unisex uniforms worn in Maoist China and the shapeless coverings worn by many Muslims. Both of them, he claimed, were designed to reinforce sameness and submission.
Just like communists of yesterday and Muslims of today, modern leftists don’t like individualism, according to Glazov, because it produces inequality. So, to achieve their perfect society, they need to eliminate individualism, and to do that, they need to restrict freedom.
“When there’s still freedom, there’s always going to be ‘inequality,’” Glazov told the audience. “The left hates that. It wants to destroy America. It wants to destroy Israel. It wants to destroy the free world because it hates individualism. It hates freedom because of what happens when there is freedom.”
Glazov said it’s important for conservatives to pay attention to what leftists in the media are saying. Refusing to listen to the propaganda is not the same as standing up for traditional values, he claimed.
“Conservatives believe that if they cancel their cable, they’re fighting the culture war,” he scolded. “You don’t get off the field during a football game and think you’re going to win it.”
Glazov suggested some ways conservatives can win. Borrowing from conservative writer David Horowitz, the founder and editor of FrontPage Magazine, he said conservatives must stop responding to leftist attacks with only appeals to reason.
“What David Horowitz is saying is take the leftist tactics and use it against them, and start fighting culture war,” Glazov implored the crowd. “Point to the suffering that they’ve caused. Take the moral high ground. Stop always being afraid of being called names and start calling names back.”
Glazov also urged conservatives to create their own cultural content, including movies and TV programs, to try and take back the culture. It does no good to ignore what leftists are saying and doing, he said, because then conservatives will never know how leftists are succeeding.
The proud immigrant told the audience he gets frustrated when he posts examples of leftist bias from CNN or MSNBC on his Facebook page and people reply with something like, “Why do you even watch that?”
Glazov gave his answer.
“Because I study the enemy and want to know what he is doing so I can crush him,” he exclaimed. “I’m an immigrant fighting for this country. When are Americans going to get off the couch and fight for this country, too?”
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