{"id":1535,"date":"2026-01-22T20:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:54:54","slug":"islam-and-the-west-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/islam-and-the-west-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam and the West&mdash;Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a discussion of the role of Islam in the West and how the values of Islam and incompatible with Western values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-3 text-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Islam And The West Pt1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1157303757?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>00:00:00 Introductory Remarks<br \/>\n00:01:55 HAMAS and radical Islam<br \/>\n00:03:00 The streets of Europe<br \/>\n00:03:49 The story of Birmingham and how the Left destroyed it<br \/>\n00:05:00 The London councils and how the Left destroyed them<br \/>\n00:06:00 Incompetence and corruption<br \/>\n00:06:51 The paradox of the Marxists and the Moslems<br \/>\n00:07:40 The definition of socialism<br \/>\n00:08:00 A radical Left coup<br \/>\n00:09:48 The Horseshoe theory of politics<br \/>\n00:10:26 Our right to worship as we please<br \/>\n00:10:46 Western values and Islamic values<br \/>\n00:11:15 Why the communists and Islamists march together<br \/>\n00:11:50 Mamdani and New York<br \/>\n00:13:30 Eventually socialists run out of other people&#8217;s money<br \/>\n00:14:00 The socialist decline of the UK<br \/>\n00:16:00 Burn it all down<br \/>\n00:16:42 Lenin and Islam<br \/>\n00:17:40 The revolutionary union of the Red and the Green<br \/>\n00:19:20 Queers for Palestine<br \/>\n00:20:23 ICE<br \/>\n00:22:10 The chaos is the point<br \/>\n00:23:10 Renee Goode, the martyr<br \/>\n00:24:40 Making an area ungovernable<br \/>\n00:26:00 One party states<br \/>\n00:27:00 Corruption and one party rule<br \/>\n00:29:50 The case of the Somalis<br \/>\n00:31:25 We do not share values<br \/>\n00:32:20 The Magna Carta and Natural rights<br \/>\n00:32:50 Our rights come from God, not the government<br \/>\n00:34:00 Democracy and the Reformation<br \/>\n00:34:34 Free speech as a Western value<br \/>\n00:35:30 Democracy as a Western value<br \/>\n00:37:00 The case of perspective<br \/>\n00:38:15 Corruption as a cultural value<br \/>\n00:40:00 Corruption subsidised by tax payers<br \/>\n00:41:00 The case of Ilhan Omar<br \/>\n00:42:15 Gad Saad and Suicidal empathy<br \/>\n00:43:50 A salad bowl, not a melting pot<br \/>\n00:45:10 Conflating asylum and economic migration<br \/>\n00:46:16 Borders as racist<br \/>\n00:46:50 Nothing in the West is worth saving<br \/>\n00:48:14 Islam means &#8216;submit&#8217;<br \/>\n00:49:12 The woman caught in adultery<br \/>\n00:50:25 Western values and Islamic values<br \/>\n00:52:50 Islamicising and Islamophobia<br \/>\n00:54:00 The infidels<br \/>\n00:54:50 Communist and Islamic revolution<br \/>\n00:56:40 Sheltering the stranger<br \/>\n00:59:00 Biblical migration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a discussion of the role of Islam in the West and how the values of Islam and incompatible with Western values. 00:00:00 Introductory Remarks 00:01:55 HAMAS and radical Islam 00:03:00 The streets of Europe 00:03:49 The story of Birmingham and how the Left destroyed it 00:05:00 The London councils and how the Left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,232,14],"tags":[312,364,363,246,362,365],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity","category-church-state","category-news","category-politics","tag-christianity","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-islam","tag-islam-and-the-west","tag-minnesotan-somalis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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