PoliticalChic
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Common knowledge is.......common knowledge.
Although it may be common, it is often less than 'knowledge.'
Take, for example, the belief that if the Muslim masses were made somehow to become productive, affluent, and educated....well, they wouldn't become jihadis..
If you believe such, you would be wrong.
In fact, you could not be more wrong.
You could try, but you would not be successful.
There are a number of reasons that weigh in favor of believing such foolishness...
a. It is reassuring, gives one hope to avoid conflicts, after all...'they're just like us.'
b. Our leaders lie to us...Islam...religion of peace.
c. Schools and the media, wholly owned subsidiaries of Liberalism, Inc., have been perpetuating this drivel forever, and there are few voices that correct them.
Coming up, the truth, and the proof.
1. Islamic civilization exists under a common religious belief authorized in a sacred text whose law is never to be altered. Rather than freedom, it is defined by submission.
Understanding can be found by looking deeply into the Arabic verb 'salima,' from which are derived 'Islam,' 'salm,' and 'salaam,' meaning submission, peace, and safety ["The Handy Religion Answer Book" By John Renard, P. 193], implying 'to be secure,' 'unharmed,' or 'blameless.'
Therefore, to be Muslim is to have surrendered, submitted, and, thereby, to have obtained security.
2. How does that compare with the rewards offered by Western society? Western civilization has left behind its religious belief and its sacred text to place its trust, not in religious certainties, but in "open discussion, trial and error, and the ubiquitousness of doubt."
Roger Scruton, "The West and the Rest."
3. As the West offers freedoms unheard of in Islamic countries, it should not be a surprise that 70% of the world's refugees are Muslims fleeing from places where their religion is the official doctrine. They flee to the West, for opportunity, and personal safety, as well as said freedom.
4. Now get this...the oddity is that, while settling in the West, many of these refugees begin to develop a hatred for their new home...and plan to take revenge on it with only its final destruction as the fitting punishment.
Even less understandable, those Muslims who settle and assimilate often have children, brought up in the West, yet identify as opposition to it, and desire its annihilation.
So....how does this fit the view " if the Muslim masses were made somehow to become productive, affluent, and educated....well, they wouldn't become jihadis"???
Starting to see the problem?
5. "Of course, one can blame Islam...but consider the view from the other side. True, one may see the problem with an atavistic seventh century view of the world...but, for the Muslim it is the fault of the West rejecting the idea of God's immutable will, revealed to his Prophet in the form of an unchangeable code of law."
Scruton, "The West and The Rest."
Although it may be common, it is often less than 'knowledge.'
Take, for example, the belief that if the Muslim masses were made somehow to become productive, affluent, and educated....well, they wouldn't become jihadis..
If you believe such, you would be wrong.
In fact, you could not be more wrong.
You could try, but you would not be successful.
There are a number of reasons that weigh in favor of believing such foolishness...
a. It is reassuring, gives one hope to avoid conflicts, after all...'they're just like us.'
b. Our leaders lie to us...Islam...religion of peace.
c. Schools and the media, wholly owned subsidiaries of Liberalism, Inc., have been perpetuating this drivel forever, and there are few voices that correct them.
Coming up, the truth, and the proof.
1. Islamic civilization exists under a common religious belief authorized in a sacred text whose law is never to be altered. Rather than freedom, it is defined by submission.
Understanding can be found by looking deeply into the Arabic verb 'salima,' from which are derived 'Islam,' 'salm,' and 'salaam,' meaning submission, peace, and safety ["The Handy Religion Answer Book" By John Renard, P. 193], implying 'to be secure,' 'unharmed,' or 'blameless.'
Therefore, to be Muslim is to have surrendered, submitted, and, thereby, to have obtained security.
2. How does that compare with the rewards offered by Western society? Western civilization has left behind its religious belief and its sacred text to place its trust, not in religious certainties, but in "open discussion, trial and error, and the ubiquitousness of doubt."
Roger Scruton, "The West and the Rest."
3. As the West offers freedoms unheard of in Islamic countries, it should not be a surprise that 70% of the world's refugees are Muslims fleeing from places where their religion is the official doctrine. They flee to the West, for opportunity, and personal safety, as well as said freedom.
4. Now get this...the oddity is that, while settling in the West, many of these refugees begin to develop a hatred for their new home...and plan to take revenge on it with only its final destruction as the fitting punishment.
Even less understandable, those Muslims who settle and assimilate often have children, brought up in the West, yet identify as opposition to it, and desire its annihilation.
So....how does this fit the view " if the Muslim masses were made somehow to become productive, affluent, and educated....well, they wouldn't become jihadis"???
Starting to see the problem?
5. "Of course, one can blame Islam...but consider the view from the other side. True, one may see the problem with an atavistic seventh century view of the world...but, for the Muslim it is the fault of the West rejecting the idea of God's immutable will, revealed to his Prophet in the form of an unchangeable code of law."
Scruton, "The West and The Rest."