Global Hypocrisy: Muslim Dependence on and Hatred of the West

The global hypocrisy of Islam today: we hate the infidels unless it benefits us. In that case, they’re not so bad for infidels.

A great irony is that while certain belligerent Muslims call for boycotts of any nation who offend them (the offense can be real or imaginary), it is the West which can and should cripple the Muslim world if it had the political will to enforce a boycott of its own.

Jihad Watch: Boycott? An Excellent Idea

Muslim societies and states are, despite being the recipients of the most fantastic transfer of wealth in human history — some ten trillion dollars since 1973 alone — economic failures, dependent still on oil and on the rentier economy of those whose rulers, and the well-connected courtiers of those rulers, have seized large amounts of that national wealth. Two generations have been raised with that vast wealth, and what has come of it? Saudi Arabia itself is still completely dependent on a vast and multifarious army of wage slaves. What art has come, what contributions to science, what signs of cultural life, other than the gold souk, and the jewelry souk, and the every-possible-kind-of-luxury car souk, and the Hediard-and-Fauchon deliveries of Parisian delicacies, and the private 747s, and the Maybachs in every other driveway of every other sheik? What? I keep quoting the observation of a Franco-Armenian architect who spent years in Saudi Arabia: “Money can buy everything, except civilization.”

And they will not have to examine either the reasons for their economic failure, and cultural stasis, and penchant for despotism, if they are constantly allowed to find whatever they need — medical care, access to education — in the West.
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Every member of the ruling elites all over the Muslim world devoutly wishes to send their children to schools in the West. They recognize the wretched state of “Muslim” education. Even within their countries, they try to send their children to Christian, usually Catholic, schools . . . Even if, as a ruler or propagandist or an editor at Al Jazeera, you spend all your time denouncing that West and blackening its name, you want to send your children to that West. [...]

Nor does Western medicine, the fruit of Western science and technology, and of ways of thought inimical to Islam (which discourages free inquiry), have to be made available to Muslims who are waging war against the West. Imagine if you were suddenly told that if you didn’t change your behavior, you would no longer have access to Western doctors, Western hospitals. Such a threat would get your attention, wouldn’t it?

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Yes, it would get their attention, but imagine the reaction — not from Muslims but from Western liberals. In typical guild-laden fashion, they’d quickly scream about xenophobia and Western arrogance. Apparently it is better to protect the feelings and beliefs of others, even while those others openly announce their intent to kill you, than to defend yourself against unjustified aggression.