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What the Western Secular Left Knows About Islam

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Obama gave a speech at the UN today and, as he takes great pains to do, repeated the progressive mantra that Islam is peaceful, and Muslims are peaceful, the massive amount of global violence committed by Mohammadans is some weird aberration committed by Muslims who apparently don’t know what it means to be Muslim.

The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day. Look at the new Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies – Sheikh bin Bayyah described its purpose: “We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.”

That latter quote seems to come from a Saudi Sheikh who issued a fatwa calling for the deaths of Jews and American soldiers, but putting that aside…

First thing, understand that the intended audience for the Great Islamic Scholar Barack Obama’s lecture was not the Mohammedan terrorists who… oh, by the way… sawed off another infidel’s head today. His words about the peaceful peacefulness that is Islam weren’t directed at the millions of Mohammedan terrorists around the world; and for that matter, neither were George W. Bush’s similar assurances. No, his words were intended to be heard by the bitter clingers in flyover country who might get “war fever” and start dragging every brown person with a foreign-sounding name behind their pick-up trucks. Because in Obama’s mind, that’s what every sister-lovin’ redneck hick in the mid-country (which is everybody outside NYC, DC, and San Francisco to these people) would do if not constantly warned not to by their social superiors.

But apart from that, imagine if Obama were instead pontificating about other religions. What if he said, “Roman Catholicism is a religion of choice, and real Roman Catholics reject the notion that the Pope is infallible and they support abortion.” What if he said, “Every real Jew knows the Orthodox Jews are a fanatical fringe and reject their literal obedience to the Talmud.” People might question his qualifications to make such judgments about religions.

When it comes to religion, the progressive left has two thoughts. 1. All religions are pretty much equal, but Christianity is less equal and 2. All religions are bullsh-t. And the progressive mind can’t move outside that box, and can’t conceive of Islam being other than what progressivism thinks Islam should be; another bullsh-t religion just with browner people and different food. A progressive cannot ask the question “Is there something about Islam that makes it more violent and oppressive than other religions?” This question cannot be asked on the left. It doesn’t compute. It’s like asking a normal person “What does purple smell like?”

The answer to the question about whether Islam is inherently violent and oppressive is actually quite important. I don’t know what the answer is, but I know that formulating an effective, long-term answer to the problem of Mohammedan terrorism depends on answering it correctly. Choosing an answer just because it suits our prejudices is not only intellectually dishonest, it could be fatal.

Comments

  1. When in large enough numbers to have power Islam and leftist both give people 3 choices. 1.Convert,2. Pay heavy taxes (jizya), 3. Die.

    Every Muslim wants sharia law to apply so that means the “moderates” want the normals to kill you.

    The worst things done personally by leaders of each religion
    Moses- Brought party to end with a bunch of rules
    Jesus- Flipped a table and chased moneylenders with a whip
    Moo- Broke peace treaties in the middle of the night, had war trophy brides under 10yo. Beheaded,enslaved, raped those of other religions.
    Leftist Bolsheviks-took away peoples guns then took away all their food at gunpoint causing 165million deaths.

  3. The basic problem with Progressivism is that it will not or cannot recognize natural law.Humans have the same instincts as other predators, and you can’t dismiss billions of years of evolution with pretty words.

    Capitalists and Conservatives recognize that human instincts can’t be controlled, and seek to channel those natural impulses for the greater good, rather than ignore and suppress them.

  4. I was in at a social gathering in San Francisco once several years ago, and there were two men who each had an adult child who converted to another religion because of the person they were marrying. Neither man was particularly religious. One guy’s daughter converted to Mormonism because she was marrying a young Mormon man. The people at this party were remarking how silly that was, and basically sympathizing with him over her ridiculous decision to convert. The other man, his son converted to Islam. The people there were saying how fascinating that was, and how interesting it must be to have his son getting so involved.

    WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!?!

  5. To me, the answer must come from within Islam itself. A reading of the Old Testament doesn’t say that much good about the peaceful nature of the Israelites, just as the Crusades and wars between Catholicism and Protestantism doesn’t say a lot of good about the peacefu nature of Christians.

    Both Judaism and Christianity have cleaned up their act. It is time Islam did the same, and that answer must come from within Islam itself.

    In the meantime, militant Islam must be treated with the same ruthlessness as they show others.