Can Trump Push Islam towards Reform?

American Thinker ^ | December 5, 2016 | Jonathan F. Keiler

[Kaslin]

The mainstream media and the Obama administration, like the media and governments in many Western countries, goes out of its way to excuse Islamist terror, and actively paints a picture of Muslims in the West victimized by supposed Islamophobia. This tendency is bolstered by the corresponding refusal to acknowledge Islamist terror for what it is, substituting euphemisms or generalities to cover what are clearly murderous acts done in the name of Islam. Most ludicrous of all, is the penchant -- particularly by Barack Obama -- to discourse theologically about the “religion of peace.” In fact, this refusal to accept reality not only excuses Islamist terror, but encourages it, and makes any reform within Islam next to impossible.

Take the recent example of the Muslim Ohio State attacker, Abdul Razak Artan. Artan blamed media for negative reports about Islam “…that put that picture in their heads…” which led to his insecurity at the university, a place where he was “…kind of scared….” Thus he rather neatly portrayed himself as a victim before attempting to murder a dozen people by running them over and knifing them. Artan’s victimized ideation was probably a fantasy since it is highly unlikely that at Ohio State he received anything but deference to his religious orientation, and explicit negative descriptions of Muslims in the American media are quite rare. More likely the mainstream media’s and the Obama administration’s false hysteria about supposed Islamophobia is what gave Artan the idea to paint himself as a victim.

[Objective Scrutator]

By its very doctrines, Islam prohibits reform.

At best, any person who claims to be Muslim but disavows violence has an inconsistent and incoherent worldview; the more accurate explanation is that they are following taqqiya. Shiites especially are quite fond of taqqiya, while Sunnis are more likely to not bother hiding how they want non-Muslims to be subjugated or killed.

There are basically two reasonable approaches in dealing with the Middle East: destroy Mecca (causes a systematic collapse of Islam), or glass the entire Middle East (many argue that the destruction of Mecca would cause the adherents of Islam to simply establish a new violent cult).

[metmom]

Islam needs to be eradicated.

There is no reform.

[miss marmelstein]

Keep well and happy, FRiend.

[faithhopecharity]

Gotta Reverse obama’s with long years of promoting,defending, funding, arming, and enabling islamics. Then it might get reformed. In about a thousand years ?,

[aquila48]

Watch them like a hawk, monitor mosques. Come down hard on those that break the law. Eventually the fanatics will be marginalized.

[Garth Tater]

I love Mr. Trump but I doubt he can do that. Reform must come from within.

True, but even without a reformed culture they will be a lot less troublesome once enough of the warrior genes in their gene pool have been eradicated. Much like WWI and WWII turned European males into the wusses they are today. Gonna take a lot of dead muslims to bring that about though.

[ari-freedom]

by winning

[Billthedrill]

Sure he can, the Mongols did. Hulagu “Chuckles” Khan built a pyramid for the citizens of Baghdad. Out of human skulls. Reformed the local terrorists, too, the Assassins, under Imam Rukn al-Din Khurshah. Reformed them so well there weren’t any survivors.

[ExSES]

Only Islam can reform itself! Until such time as there is a "New Testament" developed within their beliefs, their "True Believers" must, of necessity, be mired in the 7th Century and reflect the barbaric admonitions of an evidently, charismatic monster (Guess Who)!

[soycd]

You must first isolate the teachers of evil from the young and innocent.

[Honorary Serb]

islam would cease to be islam if it “reformed”. So it will never do so!

muslims get out!!!!

[Pollster1]

Enough A-10, B-2, and B-52 encouragement would push Islam toward reform. The Muslims who want to live their own lives just have to fear us more than they fear the terrorists of ISIS and of their governments.

[ThanhPhero]

No. He can push it towards lethargy but not reform.Jihad will go into hibernation when the imams and the rulers have lost their access to the material assets to continue it a la the first half of the 20th century. Islamic society must have enough to support a tiny ruling class in splendour and the 99% at bare subsistence. Any more than that fuels jihad. Mohammedan societies do not produce beyond that minimum amount in part because the Sultan or the Dey or Bey or the Sheik or King takes all the rest. It is not useful for people to produce more than enough to survive. Jihad is fueled by conquest and war booty, piracy and extortion of infidel nations. In the mid 20th century it gained an unaccustomed source of the necessary funds for Jihad when the West turned over the oil fields and the profit therefrom to the saracens. For three quarters of a century Turkiye was an exception to the rule but it is relapsing. The middle class that grew up there is resisting but will subside into subsistence level as Turkiye Islamizes. And Turkish Islam was not reformed, it was bypassed for a time with a now evanescent secularism..

how it is

[MrEdd]

Nope.

Islam can (and has previously been) knocked back to the stone age, but it doesn’t reform.

It would be possible to destroy Islam outright, but I do not expect us to do so. It will happen before the end times, and my guess is that India will do it.

[ThanhPhero]

Islamophobia is no different from Caniphobia when Rabies is rife.

[Honorary Serb]

Yeah.

So the muslim Turks copied the Mongols by making a tower of human skulls in Nis, Serbia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Tower

muslims never learn!!!!

[BeauBo]

That would put his legacy up there with Reagan collapsing the Soviet Union.

[Secret Agent Man]

Nope.

Ban, remove, never let back in again.

[ThanhPhero]

Islam cannot be reformed. Small portions of it can become other religions but they will be walled off from Islam and will not affect things any. The Alewites are one such. Sikhs and Sufis are others. There are actually a umber of sects in the ME but they live under the protection of secular rulers like Assad who need them for their power base or in the non Moslem jurisdiction of Israel.

[JudyinCanada]

IMHO you cannot reform a religion. The founder has laid out the religion. He can’t come back from the dead and change it. You either follow it, all of it, or you convert.