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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More here:
rough transcript:
Dr. Andrew Bostom: "I think it's very helpful to point that out to people that love to spray charges of, you know, Islamophobia. And actually, you know, when we get back into the realm of traditionalist Islam "Islamophobia" has a whole different context. Here's where we can see the Muslim Brotherhood operate.The Muslim Brotherhood's emblem comes from Qur'an 860.
The emblem of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its founder, Hassan al-Banna
It's literally to strike terror into the heart of the infidel. That's actually the definition of Islamophobia.
In other words, to make the infidel be fearful and submit.
Now, sometimes making the infidel fearful is a way to conquer them without bloodshed and that's considered to be very very noble.
In our age, it seems to be morphing now into the idea of shaming and getting societies, governments to submit.
Traditionally, and then of course we see it with the more violent jihadist groups. Islamophobia is noble. We're having trouble defining things you know under the guise of political correctness Islamophobia has this other meaning we're unfortunately familiar with. At the same time, it has a very concrete meaning which another way of forcing submission. I think it's important to keep that in mind when we're dealing in these propaganda wars.
Fascinating.
At least Shintoism produced a viable society that was advanced in science.
Islam, on the other hand, has not produced anything of value.
In anything.
Ever.
I think 2 A-Bombs and a bunch of Russians took care of it.
We still have a bunch of Russians, and more A-bombs today if some other warlike religion needs a repeat performance...
Absolutely correct.
Islam must be made as unacceptable as Nazism and Shintoism were made after WWII.
Islam has been at war with the rest of humanity for 1395 years.
They are commanded to continue the jihad until the rest of the world submits.
The only way there will ever be peace is the extirpation of Islam.
Ping for later
I have ALWAYS insisted the problems in America begin in the schools .... THAT'S why they are now luring stupid mothers into bringing their less that pre-school AND pre-school kids to summer programs
Indoctrinate the kids into government dependency.
Bump for later
Simple, you kills a many enemies until they totally surrender out of despair.
The biggest mistake we made in addressing the political-religious system in Japan was by not providing enough Bibles for them. After being defeating in WW2, the Japanese realized that America’s God was stronger than the Japanese god, and were ready for change.
They wrongly perceived the god of America to be capitalistic wealth, rather than the God of the Bible. So they emulated this perception and became great technological and scientific innovators. And Christianity is still not commonly practiced in Japan. (About 1 percent of Japan’s population identify as Christian.)
They say “you cant kill an ideology” but you sure can kill everyone who has the idea...
We should implement this in SA rather than sell weapons to the wahhabi bastards.
Thanks for posting.
To remove an ingrained aggressive ideology it is always good to start by reducing their cities to ashes and not stopping until they give unconditional surrender.
Japan was easy because it was basically in one place.
To remove mohammedanism is going to mean taking more then one country out.
In anything.
Ever.
I don't think I'd go so far as to say that -- One could say that islam had a crucial role in the establishment of the US Marine Corps.
“How Did The United States Destroy the Militant Politico-Religio Ideology of Japanese Shintoism?”
Probably Little Boy and Fat Man had a lot to do with that.
Take out all mosques, imams, burn all korans & relocate planned parenthood to the M.E.
The Tojo regime had built up a cult of emperor worship. Hirohito was basically a living god.
It was when Hirohito went on the radio - the first time most of the population had ever heard him speak - and accepted the Potsdam Declaration that finally broke the back of the cult, and they finally laid down their arms.
It would be to Islam like Mohammed going on the radio and admitting defeat.
Interesting.. Bookmark
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