It Was Barzini All Along

Robert Spencer nails it:

It’s all reminiscent of a scene in The Godfather, after a meeting of the Five Families, the major organized crime organizations in this country. The meeting came after Santino “Sonny” Corleone, the son of the biggest boss of them all, Don Vito Corleone, is gunned down in a war among the Families. Speaking of two of the crime bosses, Don Corleone says: “Tattaglia is a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino. But I didn’t know until this day that it was Barzini all along.”

So it is today: the threat we thought was coming, which is nonetheless still very much a real threat, is positively benign in the face of the much greater threat. And just like Tattaglia and Barzini, the two are partners.

For two decades now I’ve been asked how it is that the Left and the jihadis could ally, given the moral libertinism that the Left champions and Sharia commands such as the one to execute homosexuals. For years I’ve answered that the two groups have a common enemy. Most major Muslim organizations in the U.S., including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has the stated goal (according to a captured internal document) in America of “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.” What better way to do that than by joining up with the Left in opposing any and all effective counter-terror measures? What better way to do that than by helping to install as president a man who is beholden to socialist internationalists and has sold his country’s interests to the highest bidder? And who could see the members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter doing anything but applauding that business about “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within”? Plus, in allying with Islamic jihadis and supremacists, who have hitherto been mostly not American, Leftists could preen about how non-racist they are, and claim that opposition to jihad terror was really all about white supremacism, anyway.

This has been a symbiotic relationship, but now it is clear that the Left has been the driving force behind it. In a certain sense, that has been clear all along. Were it not for mass migration policies that have been foisted upon Europeans and Americans by Leftist politicians, who demanded that their people accept them or else be destroyed with charges of “racism” and “xenophobia,” Islamic jihadis would not have gained nearly the foothold in the West that they have. Were it not for those same politicians lauding groups such as CAIR and ISNA, appearing at their events, and treating them as if they really were the civil rights organizations they claim to be, efforts to analyze and stymie jihad activity would not have been so universally defamed as “Islamophobia” and excluded from the public discourse.

Go here to read the rest.  As Lincoln noted long ago:

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.