Posted on 05/01/2011 12:59:31 AM PDT by Scanian
First it was the "Jasmine Revolution" and then it was the "Arab Spring." The "Arab Awakening" is latest euphemism for internecine mayhem in Muslim world. These terms are invariably accompanied by the adjectives "peaceful' and "democratic." As the body bags accumulate, such circumlocutions are harder to digest.
The principal purveyor of such pretense is al Jazerra, global network propagandist for the Arab Emirates. American and European reporters, indolent or inept, are quick to take their cues from al Jazerra, but the latest attempt to mask the mayhem of Muslim civil wars offers a special insult to American history.
The "awakenings' of American history were religious reforms. The carnage in the Arab world is a lot of things, but religious reform isn't one of them. Indeed, the images from Arab television (chanting mobs of burkas, green banners of jihad, and contorted faces of clerics like al Yusuf al Qaradawi); reveal an Arabia that is not so much awakening as sleep walking back through history.
It is religious reform and tolerance, not political revolution that makes democracy and republicanism possible. Islam does not, nor has it ever, recognized a distinction between church and state. Indeed, contemporary Islamic clerics and scholars hold that religious/secular distinctions create a "hideous schizophrenia" in the West --the source of all European and America degeneracy. Such dogma offers few prospects for renewal, internal or external to dar al Islam.
With the European Reformation, the ink had hardly dried on Luther and Calvin's absolutism, notions of predestination, and fatalism, when a thousand apostates bloomed. Early the next century, many Christian free thinkers fled from the intolerance and religious wars of Europe to the relative freedom of the British and French colonies in America. Once there, the Protestant varieties of Christianity continued to multiply, many of them restoring Catholic values
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Any enlightenment of Muslims will have to recognize that 99.9999999% of them are simply praying to the a**holes of the persons in front of them.
Nope
Islamic Revolution continued.
Ideologies can be most dangerous as they are on their way out. Russians quit believing in Communism almost overnight — but things got really dicey for a while! Islam could go out of fashion just as quickly. Will we be prepared? Or will we be whining the doleful old ditty “wish we’d all been ready?”
My greatest fear is — God puts the opportunity under my nose, and I wimp out. His goodness is not the variable — my character is. Our lives are so much less than they could be, because of episodes of fear and unbelief.
(Should I pursue an opportunity to teach in one of the -stans?)
You might know something I don’t know but I’d wager that liberalism and socialism will fade out long before Islam will.
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