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The West’s Prostration to Islam
Raymond Ibrahim....Islam Translated ^ | 8-5-14 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 08/14/2014 5:11:33 PM PDT by Osage Orange

Editor’s note: Raymond Ibrahim was recently interviewed by Fronda, a leading website in Poland. The English-language version of the Polish interview, originally titled “Raymond Ibrahim: Prostration before Islam,” follows:

Who is Raymond Ibrahim? A scholar, a writer, an activist? What is his mission and the main goal?

Raymond Ibrahim: I am a little of all that and more. Due to my background, academic and personal, I have had a long interest in the Middle East and Islam, especially the historic and contemporary interaction between Islam and Christianity. After the strikes of September 11, 2001, I took an interest in the current events of the region vis-à-vis the West, and what immediately struck me was how, on the one hand, the conflict was almost identical to the historic conflict, one of continuity—at least that is how many Muslims were portraying it.

But on the other hand, in the West, the narrative was very different and based on a “new paradigm,” one that saw Islam and Muslims as perpetual victims of all sorts of outside and material pressures, mostly from the West. Thus the analyses that were being disseminated through media and academia were to my mind immensely flawed and, while making perfect sense to people in the West—for they were articulated through Western, secular, materialistic paradigms—had little to do with reality as I saw and understood it.

That was one of the reasons I left academia and began writing for more popular audiences, to try to offer a corrective to these flawed narratives.............

(Excerpt) Read more at raymondibrahim.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: christianity; ibrahim; islam; threatmatrix
This is a very good article.....I learned a lot.
1 posted on 08/14/2014 5:11:33 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: Osage Orange

On target article.


2 posted on 08/14/2014 5:29:14 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: no-to-illegals
I wanted to post the whole article here...but was having trouble copying.

Yes, IMO it is spot on. And every Westerner should read it.

3 posted on 08/14/2014 5:51:46 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Osage Orange

There’s no doubt the West needs a prostrate exam.


4 posted on 08/14/2014 6:27:48 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: Osage Orange

excellent thank you for posting


5 posted on 08/14/2014 6:47:06 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: kvanbrunt2

Bump.


6 posted on 08/14/2014 7:20:39 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Osage Orange

This is a good summary.


7 posted on 08/14/2014 7:49:35 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Osage Orange

Everyone should read what this fellow writes.


8 posted on 08/14/2014 8:04:27 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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Totally agree.................


9 posted on 08/15/2014 7:01:15 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: kvanbrunt2

You are welcome!!


10 posted on 08/15/2014 7:01:54 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Osage Orange; Jim Robinson
I know....the Gentle Giant case is THE news....but this article is very important.

Probably never pinged you....rarely ping anyone.

But this article needs viewing.....

FWIW-

11 posted on 08/18/2014 11:27:38 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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