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How Did The United States Destroy the Militant Politico-Religio Ideology of Japanese Shintoism?
Infidel Bloggers Alliance ^ | 6/22/2017

Posted on 06/22/2017 10:23:09 AM PDT by wtd

How Did The United States Destroy the Militant Politico-Religio Ideology of Japanese Shintoism?

The US developed a program to utterly and totally DELEGITIMZE political Shinto in Japan after WWII and decades later results universally speaks for itself.

This nation as well as all Western civilization must accept that Islam is a religion as violent and dangerous as Shintoism and must be utterly and totally delegitimized to win the war for humanity and civilization as we know it.

To continue to allow the practice of political Islam is the equivalent of legitimizing and legalizing sedition/treason as an act of faith.

Enough already.

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A brief reminder as quoted from: Dr. Andrew Bostom’s “Sharia vs. Freedom – The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism”

Chapter 36. SAYONARA SHARIA

Japanese Lessons, Lost?

Figure 36.1 A United States War Department poster highlighting the wrenching reforms of Japan’s state religion, Shintoism (I.e., eliminating Shinto State militarism, and its indoctrination within Japanese schools – and the guarantee of true religious freedom (including Shintoism as a private, personal faith), under the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP), primarily, General Douglas MacArthur. Reproduced from William P. Woodard, The Allied Occupation of Japan and Japanese Religions 1945-1952, Leiden, 1972, frontiespiece, in ref. 2, p. 97)

Professor John David Lewis, in a recent analysis dedicated to the late General Paul Tibbets (d. November 2, 2007), commander of the B-29 Enola Gay, which bombed Hiroshima, analyses how the defeated Japanese reformed their nation dramatically, “under stern American guidance.”

Central to this process was a complete de-legitimization and disenfranchisement of Japan’s religio-political state religion, post-Meiji Restoration (1868) Shintoism. These wrenching reforms of Japanese Shintoism included eliminating Shinto State militarism, and its indoctrination within Japanese schools concurrent with the guarantee of true religious freedom --- including the practice of Shintoism as a private, demilitarized, and depoliticized personal faith ---under the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP --- see poster, illustrated herein), primarily, General Douglas MacArthur.

State Department chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs John Carter Vincent elucidated this policy---ever cognizant of the dangers of State Shinto---which nevertheless guaranteed the private practice of Shinto. Vincent’s views were quoted in this October 1945 telegram sent by the US secretary of state James Byrnes to General Douglas MacArthur, establishing basic US policy goals toward Shintoism, while clarifying for MacArthur and his subordinates the fundamental principles to attain those goals:

Shintoism, insofar as it is a religion of individual Japanese, is not to be interfered with. Shintoism, however, insofar as it is directed by the Japanese government, and as a measure enforced from above the government, is to be done away with. People would not be taxed to support National Shinto and there will be no place for Shintoism in the schools. Shintoism as a state religion --- National Shinto, that is --- will go. . . Our policy on this goes beyond Shinto . . .The dissemination of Japanese militaristic and ultra-nationalistic ideology in any form will be completely suppressed. And the Japanese Government will be required to cease financial and other support of Shinto establishments.

Immediately thereafter directives were issued which terminated various educational platforms for the indoctrination of students into Shintoism, and fired their purveyors. Textbooks were rewritten, and student education retooled to emphasize “the importance of challenging dogma, and of forming their own opinions. As John Lewis observes, when Theodore Geisel ---Dr. Seuss --- visited Japan a mere eight years after the Japanese surrender, and initiation of these educational reform programs, asking students to draw pictures of what they desired to be when they grew up,

The children drew hundreds of pictures of doctors, statesmen, teachers, nurses, and even wrestlers. Only on student wanted to be a soldier --- and he wanted to be General MacArthur. The values of these children were already far different from those of their parents a decade earlier, when the Japanese dreamed of dying on the battlefield for an Emperor-god.

Sixty years later the lessons from the era Japanese reconstruction have been ignored entirely following the US – led military interventions in Afghanistan, now under the post-Taliban Karzai regime, and Iraq, after the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Indeed the post WWII paradigm of neutralizing Japan’s bellicose, religio-political creed opf Shintoism has been turned on its head with regard to Islam and the theocratic Islamic legal code, sharia --- imbued with jihad, and completely antithetical to modern human-rights constructs.

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KEYWORDS: defeat; islam; politicalideology; shinto
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21 posted on 06/22/2017 12:05:03 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for ,everythig you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: wtd

It’s 15 years.

De-Islamization should have been done by now, with Afghanistan being the first place.

What happened?


22 posted on 06/22/2017 1:51:07 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan
ifinnegan wrote: "It’s 15 years. De-Islamization should have been done by now, with Afghanistan being the first place. What happened?

What happened? Generations have been infected by Political correctness, multiculturalism, & moral equivalence efforts. They re-wrote and did their best to ignore if not - erase history. Add to that the utterly futile insanity called "nation-building"

23 posted on 06/22/2017 3:55:25 PM PDT by wtd
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To: VanDeKoik

Back the all the A bombs and the Russians were on the same side. They aren’t today. Couple years ago only the Israelis were on that side. To solve this requires another grand alliance. We need to get our home front in order so our voice is strong enough to lead Europe to the same. Then get the Russians and Chinese, neither of whom are historically fond of the problem side, into alliance against the common enemy. The Hindus in India understand the problem all to well, but need to be shown a way out. Develop new energy sources: fracking, coal, new model uranium and thorium fission, etc. to remove the threat of OPEC blackmail. That leaves the intractable problems of Paki, and if we’re stupid enough to allow them, Iranian, nukes, for which we can respectively thank Clinton, Carter plus Obama. The world would be a different place had peanut brain let the Shah do what needed doing and allowed his son to continue modernizing the Persian people. We can pray history will record Trump’s bombastic American leadership rather than American bombs and blood were the turning point.


24 posted on 06/22/2017 8:22:15 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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