Shortly after revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans rang in the new year, a man named Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a pickup truck festooned with an ISIS flag down Bourbon Street, killing at least 14 and injuring dozens more.
Tried to find it, but I think Greg Gutfeld described woke the best when he said it is looking at everything as either being oppressed or the oppressor.
That's more than "woke," that's the fundamental of modern progressivism. It's how they teach kids in schools, and how all of elite academia sees the world.
Radical Islam is the number one problem in the world today. Ideally, the 80% of Muslims who aren’t radical would cast out the Islamists and identify them as terrorists. Unfortunately, we hear precious little condemnation of radical Islam by the alleged normal Muslims.
This lead rational people to assume that these alleged normal Muslims silently support radical Islam. Seems like the only choice for the rest of us is to reject all Muslims, assuming they all are either Islamists or simply don’t object to the behavior of the Islamists. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
There's a "solidarity" relationship between Muslims and Islamists, as in the former won't formally condemn the latter. A variety of justifications exist, but they all result in the same thing: An us-them dynamic both among Muslims and non-Muslims.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has voiced a view that Islam needs a reformation. Unfortunately, at least per my admittedly limited understanding, there's no allowance for any of that in the religion, because the Koran is considered to be infallible and in final form.
I suspect you are right, in which case Muslims don’t view Islam as simply a religion. Rather it is a system of governance masquerading as a religion, with total intolerance for any non believers. That intolerance manifests itself as persecution, harassment and execution of the non Muslims. It truly is us vs them and the sooner we realize it the better.
Islamic terrorism is as much a problem, if not more so, to secular governments in the Middle East. Keeping their government secular requires constant vigilance. Like the Bible, the Quran is interpreted differently by moderates and radicals. The roots of Islam are so fundamental in the Middle East, it will always be a very complicated place.
I remain convinced that we would have been better off not getting involved in the Iraq-Kuwait conflict. It was the first of many dominoes.
The ME is a seething pit of conflict, from just the Shia-Sunni angle, and had we simply let it alone, we may have not had 9/11 and the flood of migrants into Europe may have never happened.
No truer words imo!
Amen. Civilization vs barbarism…chaos vs order…simple as that.
Great essay today.
Tried to find it, but I think Greg Gutfeld described woke the best when he said it is looking at everything as either being oppressed or the oppressor.
That's more than "woke," that's the fundamental of modern progressivism. It's how they teach kids in schools, and how all of elite academia sees the world.
Radical Islam is the number one problem in the world today. Ideally, the 80% of Muslims who aren’t radical would cast out the Islamists and identify them as terrorists. Unfortunately, we hear precious little condemnation of radical Islam by the alleged normal Muslims.
This lead rational people to assume that these alleged normal Muslims silently support radical Islam. Seems like the only choice for the rest of us is to reject all Muslims, assuming they all are either Islamists or simply don’t object to the behavior of the Islamists. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
There's a "solidarity" relationship between Muslims and Islamists, as in the former won't formally condemn the latter. A variety of justifications exist, but they all result in the same thing: An us-them dynamic both among Muslims and non-Muslims.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has voiced a view that Islam needs a reformation. Unfortunately, at least per my admittedly limited understanding, there's no allowance for any of that in the religion, because the Koran is considered to be infallible and in final form.
I suspect you are right, in which case Muslims don’t view Islam as simply a religion. Rather it is a system of governance masquerading as a religion, with total intolerance for any non believers. That intolerance manifests itself as persecution, harassment and execution of the non Muslims. It truly is us vs them and the sooner we realize it the better.
Islamic terrorism is as much a problem, if not more so, to secular governments in the Middle East. Keeping their government secular requires constant vigilance. Like the Bible, the Quran is interpreted differently by moderates and radicals. The roots of Islam are so fundamental in the Middle East, it will always be a very complicated place.
I remain convinced that we would have been better off not getting involved in the Iraq-Kuwait conflict. It was the first of many dominoes.
The ME is a seething pit of conflict, from just the Shia-Sunni angle, and had we simply let it alone, we may have not had 9/11 and the flood of migrants into Europe may have never happened.
More light from the Lamp of Diogenes 🕯️
the flood of migrants to Europe preceded 9/11, may be at a smaller scale but it was there in the 90s
Yes, but the floodgates opened after the Middle East destabilized following the Iraq war.