Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:
"Thunder on the Border," click the picture:
( PS- my personal prediction? That picture will become one of the most widely distributed, and most hated, pictures on the internet. The Illegal lobby could not have done more damage to themselves with that "Mexican Flag Superior, America in Distress" photograph if they had tried... )
WILL THEY VOTE REPUBLICAN??
Yep. Islam and leftists/socialists/communists.
The cause of fanaticism and why it's dangerous.The fanatic has an elitist view of himself. He holds a firm belief that he is in some way special and has something that others, not like him, do not. Because of this basic self-view any disagreement with the elitist or any resistance to their actions causes anger. This "supreme" view of himself is an excuse for justifying his anger and thus justifying any act from deception to murder against those who disagree or refuse to comply with it. He is comfortable with hatred, revenge, lying or any gross deception in defense of his special "superior" position acted out against those (the "others") who do resist or refuse to validate his view.
It is impossible to reason or negotiate with someone who holds the POV that they are morally and/or ethically superior by virtue of a superior self-image. Everything you do to accommodate their "concerns" (demands), short of complete capitulation, will be discounted due to your "inherent" inferiority. Any resistance to this, anything other than complete submission, becomes self-evident proof of their "superiority." The elitist POV presupposes the rationale of rightness and righteousness as inherent to themselves by virtue of their self-superior self-image not as a measure of the quality of their actions or their resulting consequences. That becomes the basis of their personal beliefs and can be supported by an ideology or philosophy they choose to identify with but the doctrine itself may or may not, loosely or strictly, support their view. That is of secondary or even tertiary importance. Of course the opposite is true for the "non-elites" in the fanatic's mindset. You can never be right if you're not one of the "righteous."
It should be obvious why a fanatic is dangerous. Any and all negative or evil acts can be justified on the basis of any disassociation with the personal identity of the fanatic. The intent and motivations of an "outsider" are irrelevant no matter how positive. The results of an outsider's actions are irrelevant no matter how accommodating or constructive. The non-elites are always wrong because they won't submit to the fanatic's view.
The world is full of fanatics of every kind and they can base their superior self-view on any pretext that they feel works for them. Some belong to large groups of "like-minded" fanatics, some belong to a group that is not in itself fanatical but lends itself to the fanatics needs and some are individuals who cling to the delusion that they alone are special.
In today's world the United States in particular and western civilization in general is under a concerted assault from two separate groups of fanatic elitists. Fundamentalist Muslims and leftists. The Islamo-nazis and the Marxists. Both leftists and Islamo-fascists hold a firm belief that they are special and have something that "rednecks" and infidels don't have. With leftists it is "intellect" and "social sophistication" and with Islamo-nazis it's a "call from Allah," a "holy annointing."
Both groups are manifestations of a mass psychological disorder of fanatic elitism. Both are extremely unstable and are neither founded upon nor affected by sound logic or reason. Convinced of their own "inherent" superiority they will both press their respective agendas as far as they can without regard for the consequences to themselves or to others. In both cases the blame for all of their actions will "logically" fall on the shoulders of "the others," the outsider. Negative consequences of their actions simply become another tool for self-vindication.
The fanatic elitist mindset is the same as the mindset of the rabid dog. It is the mindset of "us-and-them" on an absolute scale. Nothing else has a valid existence for them except for their personal perception of things. Nothing else can; their POV cannot be affected by outside influence by it's design. It is a paradigm that holds that anything contrary to it is self-negated. Change can only occur from within and this means a change in the "prime directive." Change requires the abdication of their most basic self-view, the view that they are special and unique in a superior way. A view that all reasonable people must either completely reject or submit to. Those are the only choices the fanatic leaves to "the others."
TigersEye - 7/27/05