• French President Macron alleges Muslim civilization has a problem.
• Muslim scholar retorts that it’s not the Muslims who have the problem but the West.
• Why do Jewish Americans vote Democrat and get surprised with the results?

I stayed away from politics for three whole editions, but it pulled me back in.

This won’t be incendiary, I promise. But I want to point out some home truths I think Westerners in general, and Americans in particular, need to know.

I’ll begin by saying that I’m a Catholic. Sure, I don’t go to church much. But I’m culturally and, more importantly, philosophically, Catholic.

That means my sympathies toward Islam go to the practical, worldly level and no further. I love their cuisine, art, architecture, and rule of law.

I’ve witnessed all these attributes in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Malaysia, and Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country.

It’s not all great. I also missed two terrorist attacks by a week each.

Nevertheless, the Muslim world isn’t as backward as Westerners would think watching the Mainstream Media, especially concerning Gaza.

Abu Dhabi, 2019.

While teaching in Abu Dhabi in 2019, a student told me that jewelry in Arabia was authentic and that Westerners pay too high a price for brands, not jewelry quality. She recommended I take Pam to the local strip in the city where all the jewelers are.

Pam was overjoyed as I felt my wallet lightening before we even got there.

While Pam was picking my pocket in the jewelry store, I noticed a black man, who was obviously African American… down to the sneakers, white socks, shorts, Hawaiian shirt, and camera strapped around his neck.

We made eye contact and started talking. He told me he was from Universal City, Texas. I said, “My parents live in Cibolo, near you.”

As we continued talking, he paused, looked around, and said, as if in a trance, “This place is so… beautiful.”

His confusion and cognitive dissonance were apparent. For his whole life, this man was told how this part of the world is inferior, backward, and war-torn.

When people ask me what Abu Dhabi and Dubai are like, I say, “Abu Dhabi is what New Jersey would be like if it were clean and corruption-free. Dubai is what New York City would be like if it were clean and corruption-free.”

He Said, He Said.

Of course, the whole region isn’t so pristine. Right now, the east Mediterranean is a disaster zone.

And that’s brought many of the region’s problems to a head. What’s not so obvious is how it’s also knocking Europe for a loop. And what’s even more of a surprise is the American reaction, which isn’t nearly as united behind Israel as one has come to expect.

Watch this video.

Wall Street Silver originally posted it, but not in its entirety. In the first bit they missed, this imam talks about how Islamic terrorist groups can bank in Western countries but not in Muslim countries!

For background, Imam Tawhidi is an Australian Muslim scholar and one of the leading voices in the global movement of Islamic reform. He has dedicated his life to tackling the spread of Islamic Extremism.

Warning: your blood may boil, but not for the reasons you think.

Credit: @WallStreetSilv

Assuming you watched this video, let’s ask the obvious questions:

• Why are these extremist entities allowed to bank in Western countries… and why isn’t Israel railing against it (as they rightly should)?
• Why did Western countries take in Muslim criminals?
• Why didn’t we push back against flimsy charges of racism when trying to protect our borders?
• Once we let them in, why are we financing them through our welfare state?
• Why are Western governments now not tackling these obvious errors?

Cheap Labor and Demographic Augmentation.

Imam Tawhidi is right. Indeed, cheap labor was a driving force, especially in France and the UK. For Germany, demographic augmentation may have been more of a driving factor.

I don’t know what the USG was thinking, as it needed neither.

But here’s the thing that shocks me.

According to a Pew Research Center report titled “Jewish Americans in 2020”:

U.S. Jews are still a largely Democratic and politically liberal group today, as they have been for decades. Overall, about seven-in-ten identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, including 68% of Jews by religion and 77% of Jews of no religion. Just 26% of U.S. Jews overall identify with the Republican Party or lean toward the GOP.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law is Jewish. He inked the Abraham Accords between Israel and the UAE, nearly got the same done between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

The report continues:

The status of Jews as a predominantly Democratic and liberal group (as well as one that is highly educated and disproportionately concentrated in the Northeast) leaves few surprises in their overall views of Donald Trump. At the time of the survey, about three-quarters of U.S. Jews (73%) said they disapproved of the job Trump was doing as president. By comparison, in a Pew Research Center survey of the general public conducted in January 2020, 58% of U.S. adults said they disapproved of Trump’s job performance.

Trump’s approval ratings were low across almost all Jewish subgroups. Substantial majorities of both Jewish women (75%) and men (70%), as well as Jews in all age groups, disapproved of Trump’s performance. Jews with relatively low levels of education (high school or less) were more likely than college graduates to give Trump a favorable rating, but even in this group, a slight majority (57%) disapproved of Trump’s handling of the presidency.

The main exception (other than Jewish Republicans) was Orthodox Jews, 81% of whom approved of the job Trump was doing as president.

My jaw is on the floor as I type this. Well, I guess they voted for Biden.

Dissenting Voices in a Democracy.

It’s not for me to claim anyone deserves anything. But I will assert the Jewish American vote didn’t help the Jewish American people.

How can Jewish Americans claim to be surprised at the reactions of Harvard and UCLA students, or The Squad’s following, when they voted for the very policies that imported these people?

These new Americans are now US citizens. They have a right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and a vote.

Those who claimed that America would be “terraformed” and were dismissed as “racists” are being proven correct. America is an entirely different place than it was a mere twenty years ago. From forty years ago, it’s unrecognizable.

The great Singaporean statesman Lee Kuan Yew once said, “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic or social interests. You vote in accordance with race and religion.”

If Jewish Americans vote together (even if I think it’s against their interests), what do you think Muslim Americans will do?

In another Pew study from 2018, it reads:

By 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the nation’s second-largest religious group after Christians. And by 2050, the U.S. Muslim population is projected to reach 8.1 million, or 2.1% of the nation’s total population — nearly twice the share of today.

I’ll repeat a question I asked last week. Will a Muslim Secretary of State allow IDF soldiers based in America to leave to defend Israel?

Food for thought.

Wrap Up

What a mess… and it’s of our own doing.

But it’s too late now. I expect more volatility (both political and market) through the year-end. This war won’t end soon.

And it may not end with a resounding Israeli victory.

However, when we get the time to look back and see how it all happened, the only tool we’ll need is a mirror.