John Quincy Adams on Islam
| by | Dave Miller, Ph.D. |
The
average American’s lack of awareness of the past has left our nation in
an extremely vulnerable position. The multi-culturalism, pluralism,
“diversity,” and political correctness that now blanket American culture
mean that many are oblivious to and unconcerned about the threat that
Islam poses to the American (and Christian) way of life. The Founders of
the American Republic were not so dispossessed. They were well-studied
in the ebb and flow of human history, and the international
circumstances that could potentially impact America adversely. They, in
fact, spoke openly and pointedly about the anti-American, anti-Christian
nature of the religion of Islam.
Consider,
for example, the writings of an early President of the United States,
John Quincy Adams. Not only did Adams live during the founding era (born
in 1767), not
only was his father a primary, quintessential Founder, but John Quincy
was literally nurtured by his father in the vicissitudes and intricacies
of the founding of the Republic. John Adams involved his son at an
early age in his own activities and travels on behalf of the fledgling
nation. John Quincy accompanied his father to France in 1778, became
Secretary to the American Minister to Russia, was the Secretary to his
father during peace negotiations that ended the American Revolution in
1783, served as U.S.foreign
ambassador, both to the Netherlands and later to Portugal, under George
Washington, to Prussia under his father’s presidency, and then to
Russia and later to England under President James Madison. He served as
a U.S. Senator,
Secretary of State under President James Monroe, and then as the
nation’s sixth President (1825-1829), and finally as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was a staunch and fervent opponent of slavery.
After
his presidency, but before his election to Congress in 1830, John
Quincy penned several essays dealing with one of the many Russo-Turkish
Wars. In these essays, we see a cogent, informed portrait of the threat
that Islam has posed throughout world history:
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
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