ISLAMIC REFORMATION A STILLBORN IDEA……..

Here’s a question to pose to people demanding a reformation of Islam.

In light of the Christian (Catholic Church) reformation which was the catalyst for the Enlightenment, how can we expect Muslims to embrace something, which in hindsight, they know can only lead to the same liberalism (classical sense) that’s enjoyed (but shrinking fast) by the West?

My point being, the overwhelming majority of Muslims around the Islamic world (Pew report, Bostom elucidating on the report here.) believe in highly illiberal ideas, and will reject any kind of artificial shift from Islamic orthodox teachings. That’s the dilemma and conundrum I keep facing when I mull this over time and again.

It’s like trying to convince that Hamas will one day recognize Israel when in doing so strips legitimacy from their movement founded upon the idea of destroying Israel. I have yet to find anyone willing to tackle that conundrum as well.

The problem is that, the Christian reformation was actually the reforming the Catholic Church, which meant not having to reinvent troublesome scriptures. The same can’t be said for Islam, where the koranic edict of abrogation causes the later violent and intolerant verses to be the more valid ones to be followed. This is not my understanding, this is de facto Islamic teaching, Abrogation is discussed here by an expert on the subject.

The death sentence for apostasy coupled with the doctrine of jihad are the two most important underpinnings of Islam, steeped in 1400 years of Islamic jurisprudence, any lone voice or small cadres of them are easily silenced by the two doctrines just mentioned. Again, we are not talking about a Sunni or Shiite reformation, but an entire rewrite of Islam itself, and that just isn’t going to happen, especially in an age of political correctness and ”multiculturalism”, where the West is entirely incapable of asserting its superior cultural values assertively. Even if Islam could be reformed (highly doubtful for all the reasons just given) who in the West is going to bear pressure, especially when so many of those Muslims defending the status quo of Islam, reside in the West?

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By Gene Feb 17, 2015

The Christian reformation was, at least in part, an attempt to get back to the original form of the religion. (Whether they succeeded or not is not the issue.) With Islam the reformation has already happened (i.e. wahabism), but the problem is that any attempt to get back to the “true” Islam, will go back to Muhammad. That results in what we are seeing through out the Muslim world today. Evil, murder, mayhem, rape, slavery, destruction, etc. That is the face of Islam. It cannot be changed because Muhammad is the perfect example of how to live. If Islam cannot be reformed to be peaceful, then one has to choose whether to surrender, die, or fight it. If we refuse to fight it now and control it, we will eventually be forced to destroy it. Time will inevitably give atomic weapons to Islamic terrorists, and we will have to respond with such weapons as well. If we want to avoid that, we will need to act now and force the Islamic world to reform. It’s a choice of bad or much worse.

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There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right

Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local—none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is.

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War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.

Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

“Ecrasez l’infame,” said Voltaire (crush infamy) — the infamy to which he referred being not just the Church but Christianity, which he wanted to replace with the religion of reason, virtue and liberty, “drawn from the bosom of nature”.

Perfecting society

But this Enlightenment did not remove religion so much as pervert it. It took millenarian fantasies, the idea that the perfection of the world was at hand, and it secularised them. Instead of God producing heaven on earth, it would be mankind which would bring that about. Reason would create the perfect society and “progress” was the process by which utopia would be attained.

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“I think that we should correct the vocabulary that we use, and call a spade a spade. It is all about Jihad, the Islamic effort to spread Islam globally”:

Terrorist attack – should be called Military Jihad.

Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

Building mosques, Islamic education institutions – Cultural Jihad.

Halal food – Dietary Jihad.

Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

Activity of MSA – Academic Jihad.

Activity of CAIR – Political Jihad / Public Jihad.

Collecting money for Islamic “charities” – Financial Jihad.

Political correctness – Submission to Jihad.

J Street, Peace Now, JVP and their likes – Jewish Useful Idiots who Serve Jihad.

Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.

Here’s a question to pose to people demanding a reformation of Islam.

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