SUBMISSION
Fifteen years ago, I was introduced to a young man who had escaped from Paris. Paris? Yes, Paris. He was the oldest son of a father who was an orthodox Muslim. They were quite well off. He was not too sure of his father's business. He was 20, had excellent grades and was a top athlete. After he graduated, his father informed him it was now time for him to go back to his town of origin and study to become an Imam. However, he was raised as a Parisian, speaking perfect French as well as Arabic. He studied the Koran but as he grew up he contrasted his world of Christian sophistication with his duties and attitudes of a Muslim cleric. No comparison, Unknown to his father, he took increments of "spending" money from the ATM card his father gave him and instead of living expenses he had saved the money until when he was to return to his Arabic roots, he traded in his plane ticket for one to London. I won't detail how he changed his identity and wound up in NYC, and eventually the heartland. Here is his view of Islam:
(I have edied it for brevity). "Islam is based on virtue; the very word means 'submission.'' It is truly not a religion, nor is it merely a set of beliefs but it is an entire way of life. The Koran doesn't simply govern everyone's conduct it is extended to all aspects of society. It regulates law, war, peace, education, economics, sexual conduct, trade and family. Sharia governs everything. It mitigates what it considers the rot of all other beliefs."
Between the Koran and Sharia, if one is to believe, there is no possible way that any Muslim true believer can ever be at peace with any other philosophy or way of life. All of those seeking peace will inevitably be frustrated because they are dealing with shadows. A charade being put on by Muslims for the benefit, eventually of themselves. All those Western peacemakers know that, yet they continue to participate in a game where the rules all favor their opponents. Everyone, Obama, Trump, Bush, Clinton, knows this, yet they continue to go through the motions -- and my question is, why on earth do they continue to do it.?
(I have edied it for brevity). "Islam is based on virtue; the very word means 'submission.'' It is truly not a religion, nor is it merely a set of beliefs but it is an entire way of life. The Koran doesn't simply govern everyone's conduct it is extended to all aspects of society. It regulates law, war, peace, education, economics, sexual conduct, trade and family. Sharia governs everything. It mitigates what it considers the rot of all other beliefs."
Between the Koran and Sharia, if one is to believe, there is no possible way that any Muslim true believer can ever be at peace with any other philosophy or way of life. All of those seeking peace will inevitably be frustrated because they are dealing with shadows. A charade being put on by Muslims for the benefit, eventually of themselves. All those Western peacemakers know that, yet they continue to participate in a game where the rules all favor their opponents. Everyone, Obama, Trump, Bush, Clinton, knows this, yet they continue to go through the motions -- and my question is, why on earth do they continue to do it.?
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What about Mormons? Hindi?
Abandonment of science and reason? I'd wager there have been quite a few scientists with a belief (faith or religion) that made significant contributions.
Nicholas Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Blaise Pascal
Isaac Newton
Michael Faraday
Albert Einstein - not necessarily of faith or religion BUT he did comment on the impossibility of a non-created universe
However, there are over two billion Muslims in the world. Billion with a great big B. You don't come close to that number by only using elites. Many of those illiterates are tribal leaders using what they know of the religion to both enlist and cow others like themselves.
Why do Progressives team up with Islam when ultimately it will destroy them? Progressivism itself is a self-destructive philosophy in the end: trying to understand it will only lead to contradiction because of the misguided belief of elitism and "it can't happen to me" that forms the basis for Progressivism. They are so steeped in self-delusion that what is actually an unleashed rabid wolfhound they see as a cute, little chihuahua.
Why do politicians try to pretend that they can solve an ideological conflict with diplomacy? Because they do not fundamentally understand their opponent/enemy and they underestimate it. Badly. Few in the Western world really comprehend how religion to many is much more than a one-day-a-week thing, but rather an entire way of life.
Ultimately, whether the invasion is military or passive through immigration, ultimately it is all about ideology anyway.
Eric Hoffer, author of "The True Believer," described the peculiarity of mass movements as a product of misguided, unhappy middle and upper class people comfortable enough to have the time to be troublemakers. The poor and uneducated who have to scratch to survive, he pointed out, have no time for political or theological struggle, usually ending up as cannon fodder for leaders from the upper classes.
What drives educated people in these mass movements is fear. They fear the loss of identity, of belonging, of power. The cultural gap between the West, with its focus on individual freedom (especially America, influenced by Native American culture - see "Indian Givers" by Weatherford), and Islam, in which the identity of the individual is subsumed into the umma is a nearly unbridgeable chasm.
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