Archive for November, 2008
While we have provided an easy and secure way for you to listen to our music via our site, and a simple way to buy the full tracks, we know that some of you may be more comfortable with iTunes or Amazon mp3 or some of the other big online music retail sites.
For this reason you can now buy Imagine Jihad (part 1) through these services and we’ll be adding more in the coming days.
You can find links via our other stores page.
First of all thank you to all those who’ve looked in since we put our album on sale yesterday and a very big thanks to those of you who’ve bought it already!
Both Atlas Shrugs and New English Review have linked to us already and we would like to thank both of those sites tremendously. Hugh Fitzgerald (yes, for it is he of JihadWatch) is a mainstay of NER and, as is his tradition, he sometimes saves his best writing for the comments section. I know he won’t mind me reposting in full as editing his work is impossible!
27 Nov 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald
The graphics look good, and now one must hearken to the music. The effort is based on the intelligent recognition — one that till now has escaped almost everyone — that among those who most need to be reached , their mental defenses breached, or indifference overcome, are people for whom the usual means will not work. For they are unused to spending hours in a library, may find following an argument difficult, may even be put off by the briefest of observations, but are quite at home with the CD that can be slipped into the player. Should one give up on such people, or give up on the idea, for others who do read, of aurally reinforcing certain ideas? The setting to music of words that introduce certain concepts — Jihad, dhimmitude — may work better in some songs and less in others. But the strategy is sound: to enroll a music recording studio, and lyricists, and musicians, in the general war effort. Once upon a time - in World War II, say, or World War I — a government office of war propaganda would have produced its own material, including jingles or songs. Now all that, out of timidity and rigidity and stupidity, has been left for private parties to produce; governments in the Western world are fearful of telling the truth about Islam, for fear of “offending Muslims.” (Don’t those Muslims know perfectly well what Islam teaches? Of course they do. But they are “offended” if non-Muslims dare to find out the same thing). These songs, by introducing listenes to certain words, and then hammering home — but to a beat behind and before and under and over — the message, that this is Jihad, and this is dhimmitude, can reach the heretofore unreachable. Once the very words “Jihad” and “dhimmi” are entered into the Western consciousness, and then demand discussion, a great victory will have been achieved. And it will have been achieved not by our governments, whose responsibility it is to instruct and thus to better protect us, but by private parties, recognizing the lapse, taking up the slack.
A snatch of song, a jingle, can do a lot. That’s why they use them on Madison Avenue, as recommended since the days of Edward Bernays. Music isn’t just the food of love. It’s also a way to smuggle in ideas, and possibly to inflame the passions about those ideas, for was it not Hume himself who said that the passions ruled our reason?
Think of what “Casablanca” did for the war effort in the United States. Think of the most important scene in that movie, with dueling songs and singers: on one side, at Rick’s, wearing white, those French men and women, and those refugees from the Nazis (and in real life, many of the former were also the latter), sing the Marseillaise with such fervor, and so loudly, that they drown out the sullen and malevolent Germans, sitting at a table together, trying unsuccessfully to complete their rendition of Die Wacht am Rhein.
We’ve finally released our first album. It’s called Imagine Jihad (part 1) and you can now hear ever track on our site and the whole album is available to buy as a digital download or as a CD.
You can listen to all the tracks by pressing the play button to be found on every page of our site at the top left of the navigation bar.
Please consider buying this album as your support will give us the help and encouragement we need to continue the project. We will be adding copious notes and background material to back up the songs over the coming weeks but we really wanted to get the music out there!
If you have a blog and would like to link to us, please drop us a line via the contact button in the footer of every page. We’ll be happy to give you a free download in return for linkage. We’ll also be producing some nice link graphics over the coming days (there is a first example at the bottom of this post).
Here is the track listing:
1. Philosophy (5:42)
How can there ever be peace and reconciliation if Muslims don’t lay down their arms and say “we’re sorry we won’t do Jihad again”?
2. Appeasement (2:58)
Peace at what price? Are we not kidding ourselves? Do we sacrifice our principles in the name of diplomacy? Can evil ever be compromised?
3. It’s Just an Excuse (8:20)
An excuse to draw a veil over Muslim ambition of world domination. Is that what Jihad really means? Are you ready to submit?
4. Dhimmitude (4:44)
The comprehensive legal system established by Muslim conquerors to rule native non-Muslim populations subdued by jihad. “Protection” money must be paid but non-Muslims have no legal rights.
5. Best Nation (5:04)
Islam’s Declaration on Human Rights is supremacist. It effectively proclaims God said Islam must rule “mankind,” non-Muslim’s have no rights, must submit. This is jihad! How come it’s accepted by the UN?
6. Dictators (4:26)
We wrote this when we realized Mohammed, model for all Muslims, was a dictator. Tyrants can seize power over any peoples but is this why Islam tends to dictatorship? Where is the love?
7. Brave Little Country part 1 (5:27)
Why are “the Jews” always blamed? Are they simply an easy vulnerable target, used by tyrants, a Weapon of Mass Deception, a tool, to unite their masses against and seize/maintain power?
8. Folly of Millions (3:58)
How come multitudes followed nazis and communists down the road to hell? How come millions “do” jihad, commit unspeakable atrocities?
If you want to link to our album, please link to http://www.weaponofmusicaldefense.com/store/ and for now we have the following link graphic:
