An interesting if not disturbing parallel to what we see happening in the western nations today is the dying days of the Western Roman Empire. I highly recommend purchasing the abridged version of Edward Gibbon’s “The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire”.
Rome was an apostate Christian nation when it fell, and its fall was gradual, As Rome expanded as an empire it took in many different ethnic groups, and all these ethnic groups adopted & integrated themselves into Roman Society, except for the “barbarian” Germanic tribes from the north: The Franks, Goths, Visigoths, & the Lombard’s.
As the Western Roman empire weakened, instead of trying to do direct battle with these tribes, it instead invited them in and settled them on lands within the empire. Hoping that this would integrate them into Roman Society and into the Roman Legions. However the Germanic tribes never did integrate, they kept with them their own traditions and as their numbers grew they took a leading role in the manning of the Roman Legions which were supposed to defend the Roman Empire.
And as the history of the Roman Empire reveals. Those who led the Roman Legions were the king makers. And as the composition of the legions became mainly Germanic “barbarians” they became the power behind the throne. Yes those with Roman sounding names continued to be named emperor but they were nothing more than pawns in the hands of the controlling Germanic “Barbarian” “Roman” legions.
The last of the “Roman” emperors held their throne only as long as their “Germanic” patron remained head of the strongest Roman Legion. The Germanic tribes were fractious and hence could not keep the Legions a united force, the head of each legion wanted to be a King in his own right and drew “Barbarians to his legion by offering more “plunder” or rewards.
The last “Roman” emperor was a teenager named Romulus Augustulus, his Germanic patron Odoacar decided to finally do away with the position of “Roman Emperor” of the West as it was costly to maintain a puppet emperor, and Odoacar wanted to rule Italy in his own name with his own legions. Odoacar forced Augustulus to abdicate and the Roman Empire in the west ceased to exist.
A lesson for the west perhaps? On the wisdom of inviting in groups that refuse to integrate themselves into western society. However I have no doubts that western leaders are aware of the history of the decline & fall of the Roman Empire and they most likely see the parallels with today’s western societies struggles with Islam and they do not care and want to just get elected for their own selfish ambitions or they actually believe they can avoid the disintegration of their own societies or lastly they are in fact believers in evolutionary theory and the taking over of western societies by Islam is a natural “evolution” of human existence.
The track record of the two appointees, taken together with the administration’s own ability to distinguish “moderates” from “extremists” inspires anything but confidence. After all, the Fort Hood jihadist was himself a member of a panel advising the incoming Obama administration.
At the heart of this issue are the politically correct articles of faith that few dare blaspheme, which insist that there is nothing problematic about Islam’s core texts and teachings regarding warfare and the rights of women and unbelievers, and that there exists a well-defined “moderate” Islam that the West can work with. The problem is, no one ever stops to define “moderate,” for fear that articulating actual standards may cause offense.
“Devout Muslims In Key Homeland Security Posts,” by Judicialwatch via Right Side News, November 22:
Days after a devout Muslim terrorized a U.S. Army base in Texas several news reports remind that two key Homeland Security posts are occupied by equally devout Muslims, one of them a former Los Angeles deputy mayor who eliminated a crucial program that tracked terrorist activities in the city.
Earlier this year President Obama appointed Arif Alikhan to be the nation’s Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security and Kareem Shora to the agency’s influential advisory council, which provides recommendations and advice directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Alikhan, who leads a Homeland Security team responsible for developing policy issues to secure the country against terrorism, has referred to the renowned terrorist organization Hezbollah as a “liberation movement” and was responsible for killing a Los Angeles Police project that monitored terrorist activities in the city’s notoriously radical mosques. The defunct Muslim terror tracking plan was designed to identify hotbeds of extremism in an area where several locals offered the September 11 hijackers support.
Shora was the head of a well-known Arab organization whose officials refer to anti-U.S. jihadists as heroes. As executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Shora had close ties to radical Ivy League professor Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian terror supporter who has reportedly worked on behalf of the extremist Palestine Liberation Organization….
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