An Ancient Evil Revisited

First Moloch, horrid King besmear’d with blood
Of human sacrifice, and parents tears. –  Milton. Paradise Lost

Just when we thought that it couldn’t get any worse, the faithful followers of Mohammed have provided the world with yet more evidence that their religion pre-dates both Judaism and Christianity. That is to say, many of its barbarous actions pre-date the blessings of Sinai and Calvary, when God Himself stepped into history to show mankind the way out of darkness and into light.

During the seasons of Chanukah and Christmas, when Jews celebrate the miracle of oil for the temple light and Christians celebrate the coming of Light into the world, the depraved disciples of allah have brought darkness into, of all places, a childrens’ school, not that this is the first time. Muslims have been known to particularly single out defenceless children, such as in Beslan, in the North Caucasus, and school buses in Israel.

Storming the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, six warriors of Mohammed armed with machine guns and rocket launchers against children with pens and pencils, slaughtered 148 and wounded a further 121, without a single loss to themselves, barring their eternal souls. Immediately following their success the six sent a message to their fearless commanders, “We have killed all the children, now what do we do?” Modesty forbade them mentioning the courage they displayed in burning a teacher to death. Unfortunately for them, men equally armed turned up and despatched them to where they belong.

It is becoming more difficult by the day to speak of these atrocities in any normal manner. Shakespeare himself would have been lost for words, resorting to something like “a deed without a name.” Precisely, there is no name, no word.

Chief in the litany of crime, the killing of children is the most despicable, cowardly, heartless, conscienceless, and inhuman. The act is not that of an animal but that of a non-human, an infinitely lower form of creature, one that has substituted the imago Dei for the imago diabolus. Lower than the animals, he has become a devil.

We are already hearing the dangerous claptrap about these murderers being lone wolves, that they don’t represent the mainstream muslim. But we are faced with the dread reality that muslims are worshipping an ancient and capricious entity that evidently has the power to inspire its followers to commit the most repugnant of crimes. And, what is worse, we may never know just when the axe might fall on any one of us or our children. As Prime Minister Cameron sagely warned us after the Sydney atrocity, it could “just as easily happen in the UK.” Of course, he was quick to remind us that it would only be a “lone wolf” attack, not mainstream Islam, even though mainstream Islam is always silent when an atrocity is committed in its name.

Let it be said once and for all that, unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam simply lacks any inherent virtue to turn evil into good, to stanch and redirect the evil in men’s hearts into a fresh channel of true goodness. In fact, the exact opposite is true, it turns the fresh into stagnance and the stagnant into venom. Islam and all associated with it is incurable, period. And I for one don’t want to humbly wait, cap in hand, for the muslims who run the local petrol station to decide whether or not they’re going to be moderate or extremist.

But something far sinister emerges with this new evil, something that the modern mind refuses to accept.

Child sacrifice has been practiced by most ancient cultures, but significant among them all, was Carthage, a Canaanite people who sought to propitiate Baal Hammon, the Roman Saturn, otherwise known as Satan, with the blood of innocent children. Other cultures favoured the rapacious Moloch.

Why did they do this? One reason was to show devotion to their leaders, remember the radioed message to their commanders mentioned above. Another reason, it was believed that such sacrifice was the most effective in convincing the god to grant the desired answer to prayer. And Islam’s prayer is to dominate the entire globe: “It is he (Allah) who has sent his Messenger (saw) with guidance and the religion of truth (i.e. Islam), in order for it to be dominant over ALL other religions, even though the Mushrikoon (disbelievers) hate it.” 9:33. These wicked people undoubtedly take pleasure from inflicting suffering on others, but, being motivated by the entity that they worship, they are, in fact, making an offering of child sacrifice to their bloodthirsty god, and this entity is being fueled by the sacrifice.

Furthermore, whilst this attack sends human culture back 2,000+ years into the world of Carthage and beyond, it is, simultaneously, a claim on the future. They are saying, “We will kill your next generation and poison your hopes in the future, the future is ours.” We can expect it to be repeated in our own countries sooner or later, we are all being challenged to despair of the future. To despair is to turn our back on God and on goodness, to abandon hope, and that’s when a civilisation dies from within.

There we have the other prong of the attack.

The slaughtering of 148 people, 132 of them children, the youngest being 5 years old, is an attack, not only on the future of this community, but also on the future of all of us who enjoy and appreciate civilisation.

An attack on the young and innocent is a dagger pointed at the very heart and soul, firstly of the people of Peshawar, and then, of us all. The god of the koran is not satisfied with killing the body but seeks to poison the soul of the world with bitterness and despair.

But we must not despair, we must act. True, we must find courageous leaders like the inimitable Geert Wilders, soon to go on trial for speaking the truth, leaders who will stop leaping to the defense of Islam every time another atrocity is committed by that cult, but we must begin with ourselves.

Have I fallen for the lie that it matters not what name a person uses for God, or what book he regards as holy, and what prophet he reveres as inspired and worthy of imitation? The future will be decided on how western civilisation as a whole answers these questions.

EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of shoes lying in blood on the auditorium floor at the Army Public School, which was attacked by Taliban gunmen, in Peshawar. (REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz).