Posted on 10/28/2014 7:59:14 AM PDT by chajin
This week a Canadian Muslim gunman went on a rampage in Ottawa, killing a soldier and storming into the Parliament building before he was shot dead. Authorities have since said he had applied for a passport to travel to Syria. Three Muslim schoolgirls from Colorado were intercepted in Germany apparently on their way to Syria, the base for attacks there and in Iraq by the terror group Islamic State, or ISIS. An Aug. 20 article in Newsweek estimated that perhaps twice as many British Muslims are fighting for ISIS as are serving in the British army.
What could possibly inspire young Muslims in the West to abandon their suburban middle-class existence and join a holy war? How could teenagers in Denver or anywhere be lured by a jihadist ideology—or are grisly videos of ISIS beheadings and crucifixions not enough of a deterrent?...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
To me, the "pull quote" from the column is:
"Qutb’s brilliance as a theorist was in how he applied Western-style literary criticism to the Quran to interpret God’s intentions. He concluded that the reason for the Muslim world’s decline were external cultural and political influences that diluted Islam: The culprits included everything from Greek empiricism and liberal democracy to socialism, Persian poetry and Hegelian philosophy. The only path to an Islamic renaissance was to cleanse Muslim societies of these contaminants and restore Islam to its seventh-century purity."
There are a number of implications in the quote, but I think I'll let it speak for itself, at least for the moment...
Islam’s potential was hijacked by Mad Mo’.
I put this article aside to read today.
Seems a bit apologetic...
You guys keep linking to a pay site.
That’s like asking how the bank robbery went bad and turned into a shootout. It didn’t “go bad”, it was a bank robbery, it was already bad.
Islam hasn’t been hijacked. It’s never been a good thing for any land it infects.
Civilizations have been hijacked by islam.
That’s like asking how the bank robbery went bad and turned into a shootout. It didn’t “go bad”, it was a bank robbery, it was already bad.
Islam hasn’t been hijacked. It’s never been a good thing for any land it infects.
My bad :-( I'm trying to find the article on an open site, but no dice yet. That would explain why it wasn't posted by someone else, though.
Qutb wandered around the US in the 1950’s with a permanent erection because of the flagrant sexuality he perceived all around him. A self-loathing misogynist with a wide streak of guilt-laden lust moved him to pen his execrable work.
Predictably, the few muslims (at the time perhaps 2-3 per 100,000) able to actually read loved it.
Have I mentioned before that muslims are genetically stupid?
Consanguinity? Anyone? Bueller?
The good news is that today the muslim literacy rate is double the 1950s. 4-6 per 100,000. Hahahahahaha.
Pathetic, not brilliant just sad and pathetic.
Islam, functioning as designed.
Islam was “hijacked” by Satan about 1400 years ago.
Islam is a radical, murdering, child-molesting, cult.
“Moderate Islam” is its Trojan Horse.
islam is islam......period
There’s a way to beat it. Instead of clicking the link, Google the article by putting its entire tile, with its native capitalization, in the search pane. You’ll get the whole thing.
Absolutely. See my new tagline.
There is no condemnation by the muslim author of muslim terrorism.
Read the article carefully.
The first, one and (almost) only thing we need to hear from the muslim community is its condemnation of terrorism. WE NEVER GET THAT.
Genocide, murder, terror, rape, and slavery has been a consistent feature of Islam for 1,400 years now.
For you liberal idiots who troll this site one of the first things this country did with its new navy and the Marines was to put down Islamic piracy in the Mediterranean. America has been playing this game with “moderate” Islam for over 200 years now.
The Democratic Party was hijacked. Islam exists as its founder intended.
The thread posters can do all that.
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