Posted on 07/02/2018 9:48:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Or, to put it another way, is there such as thing as an unbelieving Believer? One of the great fallacies of Western Europe's multicultural fantasy is that the children of imported Musselmen will become less Muslim and that, eventually, their offspring will become more like their nominally Christian but in fact entirely secular hosts. Accordingly, the British and others now dealing with the consequences of their willfully ahistorical blindness regarding the true nature of Islam, have assumed that "radical" Muslims are the exception rather than the rule, and so have treated them as aberrational.
This, however, flies in the face of no less an expert on Islam than Turkey's would-be caliph, Recep Erdogan, who famously denied that any such thing as "radical" Islam exists -- because, to be a Believer, is to believe in the faith in its entirety. The idea of "cafeteria" Muslims, he has said, is totally wrong:
In a 2010 interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Obama referred to Turkey as a "great Muslim democracy." Obama should have seen that a democracy is a democracy -- without any religious prefix. He would see in later years the difference between a democracy and a Muslim democracy.
Seven years after Obama's pathetic diagnosis about the kind of democracy Erdogan brought to an otherwise secular country, the Turkish president said that "There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. There is only one Islam." Worse, he claimedthat the term "moderate Islam" had been fabricated by the West in order to weaken Islam. From the Muslim democracy to the former U.S. president, with love...
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More importantly — will America learn anything from the Brits?
I can tell you we aren't learning fast enough.
They got a 50 year civil war with the most barbaric savages on the planet. No certainty of any outcome, but you have to lay odds on the fanatics. And us Ancient Scot’s wont be lifting a finger for em this tome.
Mad Mo made it so
Bttt!
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