Andy McCarthy Islam Islam 101

ANDY MCCARTHY: ISLAM IS ISLAM AND NOTHING MORE…….

 

This is a must read, especially for all of you who have your own social sites. Scoop up a portion of the text, include a link, and give your own thoughts about it, but most importantly, spread this around far and wide. I would even go so far as to say print out some copies and leave them on park benches and subway seats. Andrew McCarthy nocks this one out of the park.

NOTE: I’ve long been on record stating that any “enlightenment/reformation” of Islam is a fools errand. The Muslims will never allow it, especially when they have the hindsight of the Western enlightenment and where it has led, they’ll reject any attempt by some to steer Islam in that direction.

*Picture taken by the TT in Old City of Stockholm

‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’ 

The Arab Spring was not hijacked 

BY ANDREW C. McCARTHY

The tumult indelibly dubbed “the Arab Spring” in the West, by the credulous and the calculating alike, is easier to understand once you grasp two basics. First, the most important fact in the Arab world — as well as in Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other neighboring non-Arab territories — is Islam. It is not poverty, illiteracy, or the lack of modern democratic institutions. These, like anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and an insular propensity to buy into conspiracy theories featuring infidel villains, are effects of Islam’s regional hegemony and supremacist tendency, not causes of it. One need not be led to that which pervades the air one breathes.

The second fact is that Islam constitutes a distinct civilization. It is not merely an exotic splash on the gorgeous global mosaic with a few embarrassing cultural eccentricities; it is an entirely different way of looking at the world. We struggle with this truth, which defies our end-of-history smugness. Enthralled by diversity for its own sake, we have lost the capacity to comprehend a civilization whose idea of diversity is coercing diverse peoples into obedience to its evolution-resistant norms.

So we set about remaking Islam in our own progressive image: the noble, fundamentally tolerant Religion of Peace. We miniaturize the elements of the ummah (the notional global Muslim community) that refuse to go along with the program: They are assigned labels that scream “fringe!” — Islamist, fundamentalist, Salafist, Wahhabist, radical, jihadist, extremist, militant, or, of course, “conservative” Muslims adhering to “political Islam.”

We consequently pretend that Muslims who accurately invoke Islamic scripture in the course of forcibly imposing the dictates of classical sharia — the Islamic legal and political system — are engaged in “anti-Islamic activity,” as Britain’s former home secretary Jacqui Smith memorably put it. When the ongoing Islamization campaign is advanced by violence, as inevitably happens, we absurdly insist that this aggression cannot have been ideologically driven, that surely some American policy or Israeli act of self-defense is to blame, as if these could possibly provide rationales for the murderous jihad waged by Boko Haram Muslims against Nigerian Christians and by Egyptian Muslims against the Copts, the persecution of the Ahmadi sect by Indonesian and Pakistani Muslims, or the internecine killing in Iraq of Sunnis by Shiites and vice versa — a tradition nearly as old as Islam itself — which has been predictably renewed upon the recent departure of American troops.

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3 Responses

  1. How true, as the troops leave Iraq Muslims we revert to what they do best, killing other Muslims for the slightest fault, offense, real or perceived or even belonging to the wrong sect. 1400 years of brainwashing since birth, preached by wicked Imams and enforced by ‘religious police’ will take another 1400+ years to change even slightly. It has been alleged that most Mosques have ‘enforcers’ using gangster tactics and intimidation to keep the ‘faithful’ from straying from the ‘teachings of the prophet’.

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