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ANDREW BOSTOM REVIEW’S ANDREW MCCARTHY’S LATES BOOK: SPRING FEVER THE ILLUSION OF ISLAMIC DEMOCRACY……..

 

Absent of the West’s enlightenment which produced the concept of the civil society, and the Islamic world’s insistence of the collective over the individual, the ”Arab Spring” could never be counted on to produce anything resembling pluralistic democracy. The so called ”democracy” of the former Soviet Union and Iran is the closest model to what’s transpiring in the ME.

NOTE: Also worth mulling over is the fact that the Muslims know where the Christian enlightenment led, individualism, personal freedom, the right to voice one’s own opinion and the freedom to choose ones own lifestyle. That alone is enough to dash the hopes of ever influencing change within Islam, Muslims see the past and reject it for their future.

H/T: Fjordman

Spring Time for Sharia in Araby

A review of PJM columnist Andrew C. McCarthy’s timely and essential Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy.

by ANDREW G. BOSTOM

September 17, 2012 – 12:00 am

The release of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy’s brilliant, evocatively written jeremiad, could not be more timely.

As Americans solemnly commemorated the 11th anniversary of the cataclysmic acts of jihad terrorism on September 11, 2001, jihadists in Egypt and Libya were besieging our government buildings in these Muslim countries, eventually murdering U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. officials.

By Friday, September 14, 2012, violent masses of Muslims were rioting in Israel, Gaza, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Kashmir, and beyond, using a very questionable American film, which purportedly insulted Islam’s prophet Muhammad, as an alleged pretext.

McCarthy’s remarkably compendious analyses make plain that these dangerous phenomena illustrate, graphically, the corrosive impact of the delusive misconceptions about Islam promoted by U.S. policymakers. This profound bipartisan U.S. failure of imagination — and resultant failed policies — abetted the Orwellian-named “Arab Spring” uprisings for “democracy,” in reality a mass, popular Muslim movement rooted in Islam’s timeless jihad imperative to impose its totalitarian quintessence, the Sharia, or “Islamic law.”

Marshalling his full armamentarium of prosecutorial skills, McCarthy makes his arguments with meticulous documentation, thoughtfulness, and trenchant wit. What follows are five of the most salient points McCarthy establishes, irrefragably, for the edification of all readers of this indispensable primer — policymakers, media pundits of various ilks, and, most importantly, concerned U.S. citizens.

(I) Hurriyya Versus Freedom: There is a yawning gap between Western and Islamic conceptions of freedom — the latter being “hurriyya” in Arabic. Hurriyya is, as Ibn Arabi (d. 1240), the lionized “Greatest Sufi Master,”  expressed it, “perfect slavery.” And this conception is not merely confined to the Sufis’ perhaps metaphorical understanding of the relationship between Allah the “master” and his human “slaves.” Following Islamic law slavishly throughout one’s life was paramount to hurriyya “freedom.” This earlier, more concrete characterization of hurriyya’s metaphysical meaning, whose essence Ibn Arabi reiterated, was pronounced by the Sufi scholar al-Qushayri (d. 1072/74).

Let it be known to you that the real meaning of freedom lies in the perfection of slavery. If the slavery of a human being in relation to God is a true one, his freedom is relieved from the yoke of changes. Anyone who imagines that it may be granted to a human being to give up his slavery for a moment and disregard the commands and prohibitions of the religious law while possessing discretion and responsibility, has divested himself of Islam. God said to his Prophet: “Worship until certainty comes to you.” (Koran 15:99). As agreed upon by the [Koranic] commentators, “certainty” here means the end (of life).

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2 Responses

  1. Having read the PJ column, I was not surprised to find the overlaps and clear echoes of my own thoughts (and those of other non-PC thinkers, such as yourself) translated there.

    1) Hurriyya as the mindnumbing slavery of all people through total worship of Allah (Tawhid)

    2) Islam as a Totalitarian Theo-Political Ideology, enforcing total compliance of Muslims and infidels alike + the rejection of all infidel thoughts on how to structure civilized societies, in keeping with the al wala wal bara precept, designating the infidel as oozing immorality from every pore.

    3) Sharia Without Camouflage…and Its Muslim Contents : The inception of a purist vision of Islam becoming increasingly mainstream all over the place (both in Muslim-dominated societies and the West)

    4) Neo-Ottoman Turkey as the resurgence of a new dominant Caliphate in the ME.

    5) The futile attempts of self-proclaimed Western elites trying to project Western values on Arab Spring movements in order to deny the ugly truth that Islam is decidedly universalist and unrelenting by nature.

    This HAS to be a must-read for sure.

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