Signs Of The Coming Islamic Reformation

[surada]

1. Multiculturalism is a flawed doctrine. As is its corollary, moral equivalency.
The roots can be traced to the anthropologist Franz Boas, who, in an effort to study exotic cultures without prejudice, found it useful to take the position that no culture is superior to any other. Thus was born the idea of cultural relativity.

a. The idea spread like wildfire through the universities, catapulted by the radical impetus of the sixties. ready and willing to reject "the universality of Western norms and principles."

2. It survives and thrives among the intellectuals, the political elites, i.e., the Leftists. They use it as a very successful wedge between groups, in order to accrue power, votes.
As a result, 'Western culture' largely resembles the result of allowing a drop of mercury to fall upon a table.





Of course, there is a unitary culture that despises Western culture in all of its iterations...
Islam is actively opposed to Western culture(s)....and the resultant isolation has hurt Islam, more than it has purified, or enhanced same.

3. Yet, there is an interesting similarity between Islam, and that which it hates: the former tries to maintain power by keeping its subject ignorant....while in the West, Liberalism keeps its voters poor. Both endeavors for the same reason.

a. Consider this fact as central to the discussion:
"...in the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun, say the authors, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in one year."
Arab development Self-doomed to failure The Economist






Some in Islam actually acknowledge the fact, and call for a reformation; they recognize and praise aspects of dynamism in Western civilization.

4. The following is from an interview with Ibrahim Al-Buleihi. "Ibrahim Albleahy, a Saudi liberal writer, thinker and philosopher who is currently a member of the SaudiShura Council...The central concern of his writings is the relative decline ofArab and Islamic civilization, compared to the other civilizations of the world. "
Ibrahim Al-Buleihi - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia





5. "It is important that we make a distinction between Islam as a set of teachings, values, principles and legislations, and between the reality of Muslims in the past and in the present....[but] the affairs of this world (dunyā) have not been fully inculcated.

6. ... the fact that politics and political governance constitute some of our most pressing and crucial concerns, they have not attracted the attention of our scholars. ...[and has] left us devoid of a tradition of political thought.

a. This is in sharp contradistinction to Greek civilisation of the 5th century BC which, in the field of political thought and its connection with ethics and worldly concerns, achieved things which still excite admiration and wonder.

b. ...[those] scholars of Islam did concern themselves with rulings on human interactions and with all manner of mundane matters, but only for the purpose of making these conform to the Sharīʻa.





7. It is important to understand the qualitative difference between, on the one hand, a concern to regulate worldly affairs according to the religious law and, on the other hand, ...ideas for developing the means to make a living and open up minds to the huge, latent potential in things.

Our scholars were preoccupied with making reality conform to the teachings of Islam and were not interested in growth or the development of reality.

a. Our heritage is in fact replete with expressions of disdain for anyone occupying oneself with worldly affairs or taking an interest in them. For example, in his treatise Degrees of Knowledge, Ibn Hazm holds that anyone who occupies himself in anything other than the sciences of the Sharīʻa has simply become foolish, short-sighted and a menace only to himself.... traditional writings are stuffed with similar sentiments.



b. ...[even those] possessed of a brilliant mind, ridiculed those who occupied themselves with philosophy and experimental sciences such as chemistry – which he considered to be little more than a form of sorcery."
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"Saudi Arabia Takes a Step Forward, as Iran Moves Backwards​

by Tarek Fatah
The Toronto Sun

When the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, challenged the fundamental precepts of Islamic Sharia in an interview on April 28, the tremors were so deep, they left most Muslims and their clerics in a state of silent shock.

MBS, as the crown prince is known, had questioned the very validity of 'Hadith' literature – sayings attributed to Prophet Muhammad – that provide much of what is today considered Islamic Law in places as far apart as Aceh in Indonesia to University campuses in California in the West.

As an example, the hijab suddenly lost its religious justification and much of the Islamic laws that created the Taliban lost their validation.

Many of us who had for decades fought the Saudization of Islam were taken aback by MBS's statements. The man who is turning his country slightly away from funding overseas jihads and civil wars had quietly heralded women's rights and in an unprecedented move included the Hindu texts of Mahabharat and Ramayana into the school syllabus."

Saudi Arabia Takes a Step Forward, as Iran Moves Backwards

When the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, challenged the fundamental precepts of Islamic Sharia in an interview on April 28, the tremors were so deep, they left most Muslims and their clerics in a state of silent shock.

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LOLOL.. Saudi Arabia has been moving away from Hijab for over 20 years. Of course you know it all propagandists have never been there,

KSA has NEVER funded terrorists.

Purdah is a leftover from Persia. Its not Islamic, just tradition.

 

[Stryder50]

As long as we remain the world's purveyor of pornography and degeneracy, radical Islam will continue to attract adherents to its putative moral high ground.

And, as has happened often to date, when our SOFs kill those militant leaders of radical Islam and start searching their computers for leads to their network of contacts, we'll find those computers loaded with that pornography. ;-)

 

[surada]

How, exactly, does the OP'er define "multiculturalism?" What is its opposite?

I'd suggest the opposite is monoculturalism and since Islam was "designed" to be a religion fitted to Arab Culture, Islam would by inference be a monoculture.

I'm a little more curious on definitions for "reformation".

Literally it would sound like a return to basics, fundamentalism. But in Western vernacular it could mean something more along the lines restructure or evolution, transformation into something slightly altered and hopefully improved.

This goes back about 25 years when Young Saudi scholars began to question some of the hard rules of the culture. They decided that much of what passed for Islam was really just tribal practices that had become habitual.. Things change slowly in Arabia.. You just can't jam them up with instant change, but this is NOT new thinking.

The "fundamentals" of Islam are just the Five Pillars.. Its not like fundamentalist Christianity.

 

[themirrorthief]

As long as we remain the world's purveyor of pornography and degeneracy, radical Islam will continue to attract adherents to its putative moral high ground.

except nobody loves porn more than arabs...try harder

 

[Stryder50]

Nearly 20 years ago, in the wake of Sept. 11,2001; I took a deeper interest in study of Islam to try and understand the "why". When my oldest son deployed with 1st Cav Div to Baghdad, Iraq in April of 2004 (FOB Camp Eagle) that interest took on greater impetus. A few essential basics popped out of the texts of Islam.
1) The words of the prophet Mohammad are supposed to be the final words from Gawd/Allah to his human creations. They are not to be altered or changed.

2) Paradise/"Heaven" in Islamic theology is multi-layer or multi-levels. Lowest level (basement) can be obtained by"peaceful" Muslims whom follow the Five Pillars. Higher levels (penthouse) can only be attained by those whom engage in Jihad(Holy War) as Mujaheddin (Holy Warriors). They more you slay, capture and destroy of Infidels(Non-Muslims) the greater your Rewards in Paradise.

3) Muhammad claimed he had been commanded by Allah to fight all humanity until the whole of humankind had become Muslim, or the 'End of Times' arrive. This commandment passed on to his followers, descendants.

One might see here a prescription for a "Forever War" of sorts. Fortunately most Muslims don't take this literally or practice such fully.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Nearly 20 years ago, in the wake of Sept. 11,2001; I took a deeper interest in study of Islam to try and understand the "why". When my oldest son deployed with 1st Cav Div to Baghdad, Iraq in April of 2004 (FOB Camp Eagle) that interest took on greater impetus. A few essential basics popped out of the texts of Islam.
1) The words of the prophet Mohammad are supposed to be the final words from Gawd/Allah to his human creations. They are not to be altered or changed.

2) Paradise/"Heaven" in Islamic theology is multi-layer or multi-levels. Lowest level (basement) can be obtained by"peaceful" Muslims whom follow the Five Pillars. Higher levels (penthouse) can only be attained by those whom engage in Jihad(Holy War) as Mujaheddin (Holy Warriors). They more you slay, capture and destroy of Infidels(Non-Muslims) the greater your Rewards in Paradise.

3) Muhammad claimed he had been commanded by Allah to fight all humanity until the whole of humankind had become Muslim, or the 'End of Times' arrive. This commandment passed on to his followers, descendants.

One might see here a prescription for a "Forever War" of sorts. Fortunately most Muslims don't take this literally or practice such fully.

Fortunately most Muslims don't take this literally or practice such fully.

40% of Indonesians approve of violence in defense of Islam.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailweekly.asp?fileid=20060728.@03 https://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/violence-in-defense-of-islam-statistics/



Pew Global: 68% of Palestinian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
43% of Nigerian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
38% of Lebanese Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
15% of Egyptian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
13% of Indonesian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
12% of Jordanian Muslims say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.
7% of Muslim Israelis say suicide attacks against civilians in defense of Islam are justified.

Muslim Opinion Polls

Challenging the myth of a 'tiny minority of extremists'

www.thereligionofpeace.com

*much more here:

Muslim Opinion Polls

Challenging the myth of a 'tiny minority of extremists'

www.thereligionofpeace.com

Islam is a peaceful religion because most Muslims live peacefully and that only a "tiny minority of extremists" practice violence? That's like saying that White supremacy must be perfectly fine since only a tiny minority of racists ever hurt anyone. Neither does it explain why religious violence is largely endemic to Islam, despite the tremendous persecution of religious minorities in Muslim countries.

In truth, even a tiny minority of "1%" of Muslims worldwide translates to 15 million believers - which is hardly an insignificant number. However, the "minority" of Muslims who approve of terrorists, their goals, or their means of achieving them is much greater than this. In fact, it isn't even a true minority in some cases, depending on how goals and targets are defined. Muslim Opinion Polls







Still, we need only look to the many polls to affirm the alarmingly high percentages of Muslims (hundreds-of-millions in number) who seek, through the most violent means imaginable, Islamic world domination. Again, here are but a few:

83 percent of Palestinian Muslims, 62 percent of Jordanians and 61 percent of Egyptians approve of jihadist attacks on Americans. World Public Opinion Poll(2009).

1.5 Million British Muslims support the Islamic State, about half their total population. ICM (Mirror) Poll 2015.

Two-thirds of Palestinians support the stabbing of Israeli civilians. Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (2015).

38.6 percent of Western Muslims believe 9/11 attacks were justified. Gallup(2011).

45 percent of British Muslims agree that clerics preaching violence against the West represent “mainstream Islam.” BBC Radio (2015).

38 percent of Muslim-Americans say Islamic State (ISIS) beliefs are Islamic or correct. (Forty-three percent disagree.) The Polling Company CSP Poll (2015).

One-third of British Muslim students support killing for Islam. Center for Social Cohesion (Wikileaks cable).

78 percent of British Muslims support punishing the publishers of Muhammad cartoons. NOP Research.

80 percent of young Dutch Muslims see nothing wrong with holy war against non-believers. Most verbalized support for pro-Islamic State fighters. Motivaction Survey (2014).

Nearly one-third of Muslim-Americans agree that violence against those who insult Muhammad or the Quran is acceptable. The Polling Company CSP Poll (2015).

68 percent of British Muslims support the arrest and prosecution of anyone who insults Islam. NOP Research.

51 percent of Muslim-Americans say that Muslims should have the choice of being judged by Shariah courts rather than courts of the United States (only 39 percent disagree).The Polling Company CSP Poll (2015).

81 percent of Muslim respondents support the Islamic State (ISIS). Al-Jazeerapoll (2015).

Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and the moderate Muslim: Even as we hear of the occasional sighting, most reasonable people remain skeptical as to whether, in reality, these mysterious creatures even exist.

Myth of the ‘Moderate Muslim’

“When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.”– The Quran, Surah 9:5When it comes

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