How much longer and how many more lives lost before we eliminate the plague that islam is?
And there is no, I repeat NO, such thing as a good moderate muslim.
I have no use for scholarly discussion of this crap.
Rather, let's discuss ways to eliminate it.
Once we have eliminated it, then we can argue over what to call it.
McCarthy is a poor theologian, a closeted postmodern, and a coward. Words mean things, and “interpreting” Islam in a more “contextual way” when the meaning of the text is plain is nothing but an invitation to Mohammedans to play “let’s pretend”. I can understand and even, in a way, admire the Mohammedan refusal to embrace that intellectual dishonesty.
What McCarthy wants is not to have to truly confront Mohammedanism. That would involve breeching all sorts of postmoderm/gramscian shibboeths. It would be ever so much more convenient if Mohammedans would just simply become like Episcopalians, Methodists (UMC), or Unitarians. Of course, this is rather like it would have been to hope in prior generations that the Communists or Nazis would abandon their creeds through “contextualization” and become Franciscan friars.
Distinguishing between a “religion” and an “ideology”, as some try to do, is absurd. “Religion” is just another word for metaphysics and worldview. Everyone has both of these, whether he realizes it or not. While metaphysics provides an ontology, a system of values, and other fundamental beliefs for interpreting the world, “Ideologies” are just the worldview applied to social/political issues. Again, everyone has an ideology whether he knows it or not.
Here McCarthy is squeamish. The issue isn’t whether a worldview is “supremecist” or not; the issue is whether it is true. What McCarthy doesn’t want to do is take on the “truth” issue. I suspect that he lives in a milieu in which the background assumptions are postmodern, and claiming that there is a true metaphysics would be viewed even in his circles as “unsophisticated”....or worse - de classe.
We live in an age in which the best - or at least those who believe they are the “best - lack courage. This is why we can’t deal effectively with any public policy issue, whether it be illegal immigration, Mohammedanism, spending, taxing, or anything at all related to sexuality.
Through generations of control of education and the media the left has managed to produce elites and a general populace without genuine conviction. Consequently, we continue to slowly slide toward our own destruction, fully aware that it is approaching, but too cowardly to say and do the things necessary to avert it.