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Equality of culture is a silly idea.
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Proper criticism of a culture, including its religion, does not judge
creatures made in God's image.
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The adherents of a false religion are victims of their culture and
ought to benefit from exposition of the true source of their ills.
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Love Muslims, but oppose a poisonous religion.
Islamic Jihad: Symptom of a Western Cause
pjmedia.com
By Raymond Ibrahim December 14, 2015
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https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2015/12/14/islamic-jihad-symptom-of-a-western-cause
As someone
specializing in Islamic jihadism, one would expect I’d have much
to say immediately after jihadi attacks of the sort that recently
occurred in San Bernardino, or Paris, or Mali, with a total of
about 180 dead. Ironically I don’t, as such attacks are
ultimately symptoms of what I do deem worthy of talk: root causes.
(What can one add when a symptom of the root cause he has long
warned against occurs other than “told
you so”?)
So what is the root
cause of jihadi attacks? Many think that the ultimate source of
the ongoing
terrorization of the West is Islam. Yet this notion has one
problem: the
Muslim world is immensely weak and intrinsically incapable of
being a threat.
That every Islamic
assault on the West is a terrorist attack -- and terrorism, as is
known, is the weapon of the weak -- speaks for itself.
This was not always
the case. For approximately one thousand years, the
Islamic world was the scourge of the West. Today’s history
books may refer to those who terrorized Christian Europe as Arabs,
Saracens, Moors, Ottomans, Turks, Mongols, or Tatars[i],
but all were operating under the same banner of jihad that the
Islamic State is operating under.
But today, the
ultimate enemy is within.
The root cause behind
the non-stop Muslim terrorization of the West is found in those
who stifle or whitewash all talk and examination of Muslim
doctrine and history; who welcome hundreds of thousands of Muslim
migrants while knowing that some are jihadi operatives and many
are simply “radical”; who work to overthrow secular Arab
dictators in the name of “democracy” and “freedom,” only
to uncork the jihad long suppressed by the autocrats (the Islamic
State’s territory consists of lands that were “liberated” in
Iraq, Libya, and Syria by the U.S. and its allies).
So, are Western
leaders and politicians the root cause behind the Islamic
terrorization of the West? Close, but still not the right answer.
Far from being limited
to a number of elitist leaders and institutions, the Western
empowerment of the jihad is the natural outcome of postmodern
thinking -- the real reason an innately weak Islam can be a source
of repeated woes for a militarily and economically superior West.
Remember, the reason
people like French President Francois Hollande, U.S. President
Barack Hussein Obama, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are in
power -- three prominent Western leaders who insist that Islam is
innocent of violence and who push for Muslim immigration -- is
because they embody a worldview that is normative in the West.
In this context, the
facilitation of jihadi terror is less a top-down imposition and
more a grassroots product of decades of erroneous but unquestioned
thinking. (Those who believe America’s problems begin and end
with Obama would do well to remember that he did not come to power
through a coup, but that he was voted in -- twice. This indicates
that Obama and the majority of voting Americans have a shared, and
erroneous, worldview. He may be cynically exploiting this
worldview, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s because
this warped worldview is mainstream that he can exploit it in the
first place.)
Western empowerment of
the jihad is rooted in a number of philosophies that have
metastasized into every corner of social life, becoming
cornerstones of postmodern epistemology. These include the
doctrines of relativism and multiculturalism on the one hand, and
anti-Western, anti-Christian sentiment on the other.
Taken together, these
cornerstones of postmodern, post-Christian thinking hold that
there are no absolute truths, and thus all cultures are
fundamentally equal and deserving of respect. They hold that if
Western people wants to criticize a civilization or religion, they
must instead look “inwardly” and acknowledge their European
Christian heritage as the epitome of intolerance and imperialism.
Add to these a
number of other sappy and silly ideals: Truth can never be uttered
because it might “hurt the feelings” of some (excluding white
Christians, who are free game); if anything, the West should go
out of its way to make up for its supposedly historic “sins”
by appeasing Muslims until they “like us”; etc.
All together, we
have a sure recipe for disaster -- which is the current state of
affairs. [My emphasis. (Earlier emphasis and internal links in
original.)]
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