Category: Islamism
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What Explains the Left’s Toleration of Militant Islam?
From 1789 on, a defining characteristic of the Left has been hostility to religion, especially in its institutionalized forms. This goes together with a commitment to such Enlightenment values as individual liberty, belief in reason, and equality, including equality among the races and between the sexes. Thus the last thing one would expect from the…
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Do Communists Lie?
I just now found this at the CPUSA website: Communists are not against religion. We are against capitalism. A communist who is not against religion would be like a Catholic who is not against atheism or a teetotaler who is not against drinking alcoholic beverages. What we have here is further proof that truth is…
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Islam is not Islam!
Jeff Hodges just now apprised me of a post of his featuring the following bumpersticker: My take is as follows. Just as tautological sentences can be used to express non-tautological propositions, contradictory sentences can be used to express non-contradictory propositions. Consider 'It is what it is.' What the words mean is not what the speaker…
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And Yet You Insist that Islam is no Threat to Our Values?
Berkeley's Jihad Against Bill Maher It's a funny world in which conservatives are the new liberals (old sense!) and liberals (new sense!) are the new fascists.
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Why the Left Will Not Admit the Threat of Radical Islam
My philo cronies and I were discussing this over Sunday breakfast. Why don't leftists — who obviously do not share the characteristic values and beliefs of Islamists — grant what is spectacularly obvious to everyone else, namely, that radical Islam poses a grave threat to what we in the West cherish as civilization, which includes…
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When Will Liberals Tell the Truth about Islam?
Presumably never since the reality-denying Left, which includes many in the Catholic hierarchy, does not care about truth but about being politically correct. Now read this. Related articles It's Time to Take the Islamic State Seriously
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Bill Maher and Sam Harris Hammer Ben Affleck
A lively 'conversation' about Islam. Affleck outs himself as a perfect idiot while getting slaughtered by the Maher-Harris tag team. Around 2:05 he starts to quote the Declaration of Independence (second paragraph) and the line about all men being endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and then 'corrects' himself substituting 'forefathers' for 'Creator.' …
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Islam and the Perils of Psychological Projection
I have found that it is dangerous to assume that others are essentially like oneself. Psychologists speak of projection. As I understand it, it involves projecting (etymologically, throwing outward) into others one's own attitudes, beliefs, motivations, fears, emotions, desires, values, and the like. It is classified as a defense mechanism. To avoid confronting an unsavory…
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Obama: “ISIL is not Islamic”
What's the reasoning behind Obama's statement? Perhaps this: 1. All religions are good.2. Islam is a religionErgo3. Islam is good4. ISIL is not good.Ergo5. ISIL is not Islamic. This little argument illustrates how one can reason correctly from false/dubious premises. Are all religions good? Suppose we agree that a religion is good if its contribution…
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A Warning From the Archbishop of Mosul
Armenian Orthodox church in Raqqa, Syria, now an ISIS office Source (emphases and minor corrections added) Our sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western Christians, will also suffer in the near future. I lost my diocese. The physical setting of my apostolate has been occupied by Islamic radicals who want us…
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The Religion of Peace or the Religion of Beheading?
Jeff Jacoby, Why Beheading? Excerpt: There is more to the Islamist passion for decapitation than psychological warfare and a hunger for notoriety. There is also Muslim theology and history, and a mandate going back to the Koran. In a 2005 study published in Middle East Quarterly, historian Timothy Furnish quotes the famous passage at Sura…
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The ‘9/11’ Prescience of Hillaire Belloc
C. John McCloskey writes: After 9/11, no one should be surprised to learn that Islam is turning the West’s superiority back on itself. What is surprising is that a lone historian saw this coming in the 1930s. [emphasis added.] The great Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc, friend of G.K. Chesterton and a prolific historian, was prescient…
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First the Saturday People . . .
. . . then the Sunday people.
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If Islam is the Religion of Peace . . .
. . . why is its prophet a warrior?
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Protestant Prelates Oppose Force Against ISIS
Disgusting! Suppose you were a Christian living in an Iraqi village about to be conquered by ISIS, and you’ve already heard about your co-religionists murdered at the conquered village up the road. You have the choice between fleeing to a just arrived team of U.S. church pacifists trained in “interpersonal conflict transformation.” Or you could…