Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Posted on 06/12/2016 7:52:48 AM PDT by Perseverando
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Islamic violence is nearly impossible to deny. But why is Islam violent? The usual answer is to point to Koranic verses calling for the conquest and subjugation of non-Muslims. That certainly covers the theological basis for Islamic violence. But it fails to explain why Muslims continue to practice it. Even against each other. Violence has become the defining form of Islamic exceptionalism.
Optimists speak of reforming Islam. But such reforms had over a thousand years in which to take place.
Islam is an ideology. Its violence is a strategy. That strategy fit the needs of Mohammed. Mohammed chose to use force to spread his ideology. He needed to recruit fighters so he preached the inferiority of non-Muslims, the obligation for Muslims to conquer non-Muslims and the right of his fighters to seize the property and wives of non-Muslims as incentive for them to join his fight. Furthermore he even promised them that if they should fall in battle, they would receive loot and women in paradise.
The strategy was barbarous, but quite effective. Mohammed had created a new super-tribe in a tribal society. The tribe of Islam united different groups in a mission of conquest. The Islamic religion allowed the varying clans to be more effective and ambitious than their victims. Within a surprisingly short amount of time the chain of conquests made Islam into a world religion. The most effective Islamic conquerors could not only claim vast territories, carving up civilization into fiefdoms, but they could prepare their sons and grandsons to continue the chain of conquests.
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If your only approved educational tool is the Koran which teaches all these violent tribal strategies as part of the religious tenets, then the backwardness of the Islamic societies will continue as will their rejection of modern civilizations which are not Islamic.
I wish Greenfield had written more about the eductaion issue as a basic cause of the failure to reform.
If I remember correctly about 60% of muslims are illiterate. Therefore they can’t actually read the koran. They just rely on the imams to tell them what it says. Keeping the population stupid is part of the plan.
That’s the party line but I have known quite a few and they certainly did not hold that view.
Your inability to split off the radicals from the great mass of Muslims denotes general ignorance. And don’t tell me what you read in the Koran. For many if not most, it simply doesn’t apply.
The Koran.
The Haditha.
The Biography
The example of the Life of Mahmout which must be emulated.
Everyone who cares about what is going on should read at least the Koran.
Then read, first a short piece-Epilogue, then read the book:
The words are there in the Koran so if they follow the religion literally, they commit to jihad against unbelievers.
bkmk
How courteous is the Japanese;
He always says, “Excuse it, please.”
He climbs into his neighbor’s garden,
And smiles, and says, “I beg your pardon”;
He bows and grins a friendly grin,
And calls his hungry family in;
He grins, and bows a friendly bow;
“So sorry, this my garden now.”
-Ogden Nash
Bump!
Islam is a religion that practices human sacrifice. All the killings in its name proves that. It should be banned in America.
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