I want to
continue listing some important quotations from a new book by Dennis Prager – Still
the Best Hope.
1. While
Europeans and the American Left have more faith in the moral judgment of the
United Nations – where Libya under Qaddafi chaired the Human Rights Commission and
where dictatorships like Syria and China vote in the Security Council – most
Americans have more faith in America.
2. Leftism
is concerned with materially transforming society, not with morally
transforming individuals.
3. If your
primary concerns are expansion of the state, material equality, reduction of
American power in the world, making America and Europe secular societies,
removal of Judeo-Christian influence, substitution of internationalism for
nationalism, and making ethnicity and race important values, the Left has been
a wild success.
4. Radical
Islam is not, by any means, a majority of Islam. But with its financiers,
clerics, propagandists, trainers, leaders, operatives and sympathizers –
according to a conservative estimate, it commands the allegiance of 7% of
Muslims, that is, more than 80 million souls – it is a very powerful strain within
Islam. It has changed the course of nations and affected the lives of millions.
5. Prager
quotes a Muslim writer: Muslims love to live in the US but also love to hate
it. Many openly claim that the US is a terrorist state but they continue to
live in it. Their decision to live here is testimony that they would rather
live here than anywhere else. As an Indian Muslim, I know for sure that nowhere
on earth, including India, will I get the same sense of dignity and respect
that I have received in the US. No Muslim country will treat me as well as the
US has.
6. The most
humane societies in the world, all emanate from Judeo-Christian roots. No
Koran-based societies have attained the equivalent moral development, not to
mention similar levels of liberty or tolerance.
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