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The first fundamental fact about the "Arab Spring" is the fact that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that figures the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of an civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United States is a competition to be overcome, not the herald of an culture to be embraced. Is this self-perception predicated on objective truth? Can it reflect a precise engineering of Islam? It really is of these questions that American representatives and Traditional western intellectuals obsess. The questions are unimportant. This is not a matter of right or wrong, of some position or insurance plan whose understated tweaking or outright reversal would change the reality on the floor. This is simply, starkly, the way it is. Every human heart will not yearn for freedom. Within the Islam of the Middle East, "freedom" means something very nearly the opposite of what the idea connotes to Westerners - it is the freedom that lies in total submission to Allah and His legislation. That legislation, sharia, is diametrically opposed to core the different parts of freedom as understood in the West - you start with the very idea that man is absolve to make legislation for himself, irrespective of what Allah has ordained. It really is thus delusional to believe, as the West's Arab Spring fable insists, that the spot teems with Jamal al-Madisons having aloft the light fixture of liberty. Do such groundbreaking reformers exist? Naturally they do...but in numbers scarcely enough to weave a imaginary cover account. When push emerged to shove - and worse - the reformers were stressed, swept away by way of a tide of Islamic supremacism, the active, consequential mass movements that beckons unlimited winter. This is the real account of the Arab Spring - that, and the Pandora's Box that starts when an American supervision aligns start movement, whose explained goal is to eliminate America.
