Posted on 10/06/2017 5:47:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The new thought crime seeks to stigmatize young women who wish to be free of the veil and to walk without shame, bareheaded in the street, and to marry whom they love and not who is imposed on them, as well as to strike down those citizens of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom of Turkish, Pakistani, or African origin who dare claim the right to religious indifference. Questions about Islam move from the intellectual, individual, or theological sphere to the penal, making any objection or reticence about the faith liable to sanction. The concept of Islamophobia masks the reality of the offensive, led by the Salafists, Wahhabis, and Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and North America, to re-Islamize Muslim communities—a prelude, they hope, to Islamizing the entire Western world. Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, a refugee in Qatar sought by Interpol for inciting murder and promoting terrorism, often deplored the fact that Islam failed twice in its conquest of Europe: in 732, when Charles Martel stopped the Saracens at Poitiers; and in 1689, with the aborted attempt of the Ottomans to take Vienna. Now the idea is to convert Europe to the true faith in part by transforming the law and the culture.
There remains the mystery of the transubstantiation of religion into race. The racialization of the world has to be the most unexpected result of the antidiscrimination battle of the last half-century; it has ensured that the battle continuously re-creates the curse from which it is trying to break free. A great universal religion like Islam includes a vast number of peoples and cannot be assimilated to a particular ethnic group. The term “Islamophobia,” however, invites confusion between a system of specific beliefs and the faithful who adhere to those beliefs. To contest a form of obedience, to reject dogmas that one considers absurd or false is the very basis of intellectual life, but belief in the existence of Islamophobia renders such contestation impossible. Should we speak, then, of anticapitalist, antiliberal, or anti-Marxist “racism” or phobia?
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And here is where the strangest factor in the whole Islamophobia controversy emerges: the enlistment of a part of the American and European Left in the defense of the most radical form of Islam—what one might call the neo-Bolshevik bigotry of the lost believers of Marxism. Having lost everything—the working class, the Third World—the Left clings to this illusion: Islam, rebaptized as the religion of the poor, becomes the last utopia, replacing those of Communism and decolonization for disenchanted militants. The Muslim takes the place of the proletarian.
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And here is where the strangest factor in the whole Islamophobia controversy emerges: the enlistment of a part of the American and European Left in the defense of the most radical form of Islam—what one might call the neo-Bolshevik bigotry of the lost believers of Marxism. Having lost everything—the working class, the Third World—the Left clings to this illusion: Islam, rebaptized as the religion of the poor, becomes the last utopia, replacing those of Communism and decolonization for disenchanted militants. The Muslim takes the place of the proletarian.
I’ve got it, Rooster! They scare me to death.
Yes, it’s a remarkable observation.
France is attacked not because it oppresses Muslims but because it liberates them from the hold of religion. It offers them a perspective that terrifies the devout—that of spiritual indifference, the right to believe or not to believe, as Jews and Christians are able to do.
That part caught my eye too, and it seems like the only reasonable explanation.
“...The racialization of the world has to be the most unexpected result of the antidiscrimination battle of the last half-century....”
Why is this unexpected? Teach division, get division.
France is attacked not because it oppresses Muslims but because it liberates them from the hold of religion. It offers them a perspective that terrifies the devout—that of spiritual indifference, the right to believe or not to believe, as Jews and Christians are able to do.
France is attacked because it allows itself to be attacked. The French see giving in to all the muslim nonsense as being placating, peaceful. The muslims see it as weakness.
“That part caught my eye too, and it seems like the only reasonable explanation.”
I think that partly explains the left’s love of islam.
But the larger attraction for them is how anti-Christian it is. Fits perfectly with their assault on the founding values of our country.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
More simply:
islam and the left have the same enemy: Western Civilization.
Add to that the fact that Frenchmen have neither guns nor the right to use them in self defense if they had them.
Muslim quarters in France are awash in guns and the killing of infidels is a common occurence & part of metropolitan life in France.
Game, set, match to Muslims. A bientot, mes amis francaises.
France has a ban on face-covering headgear, so they're not giving into all the Muslim nonsense.
They have a large Muslim population because they had colonies with Muslim populations and now nothing that they do is going to please or appease some Muslims.
“islam and the left have the same enemy: Western Civilization.”
Exactly. The Left is the ally of everyone who want to destroy the West.
Islam is the Hotel California of religions - you can check in, but you can never leave. Apostasy is punishable by death, and many are serious about it, as revealed by the Pew polls. They don’t really have a choice to have a choice, and it’s past time our Left gets a grip on this.
Too many of our courts are now stocked with Social Justice Judges...do your homework and keep these Marxists out of our courts via your votes.
But that is not an irrational fear, it is a very real fear based on history, observation, and experience. Hence, it can't be a phobia.
Correct.
You’re right. Absolutely. Not enough coffee this morning.
My only fear regarding radical Islamic terrorists is I run out of ammo if ever put in the position.
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