In 1949, sociologist Jules Monnerot described Communism as 20th century Islam.\u00a0 To which I add:\u00a0 Islam is the Communism of the 21st century. Like Communism, it is totalitarian with tentacles reaching into every aspect of the lives of those it subjugates.\u00a0 And like Communism, it is internationalist in its aspiration and projected reach.<\/p>\n
My second sentence is more clever than accurate. It is not as if Islam has displaced Communism in the 21st century. They are both up and running\u00a0 as serious existential threats to the West and its values.\u00a0 They are of course each antithetical to the other despite\u00a0 their similarities, which include being totalitarian, internationalist, and anti-liberty.\u00a0 The main difference is that Islam is theist, Communism atheist.\u00a0 Their competition, however, does not rule out\u00a0 collusion and collaboration which\u00a0 gives rise to\u00a0 a noxious fusion form, Islamo-communism. In the USA,\u00a0 Islamo-commie fusion is\u00a0 promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America,\u00a0 an outfit that has infiltrated and now controls the once-respectable Democrat Party.\u00a0 Its old guard, one of whom is the Jewish (!) Charles\u00a0 Schumer of New York, has abdicated.\u00a0 The main advocate of the DSA-driven fusion is is Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan who is running for seat in the U. S. Senate.<\/p>\n
Some say that Islam is a political ideology masquerading as a religion.\u00a0 I don’t go that far. I say it is<\/em> a religion.\u00a0 If so, it is not<\/em> a religion disguised as something else.\u00a0 It is the worst of the great religions.\u00a0 Its holy book, the Koran<\/em>, Schopenhauer described as “The saddest and poorest form of theism.” At the present time, among the great religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), Islam is the sole religious source of terrorism.<\/p>\n Nor is Islam a Christian heresy. If it is a religion, then it is not a heresy.\u00a0 There is a distinction between a religion and each and all of its heresies.\u00a0 Think of all the Christian heresies: Sabellianism, Marcionism, Patripassionism, Applinarianism, Nestorianism, Donatism, Arianism, and so on. Do you want to say that each is a religion unto itself? I hope not. Islam is a religion unto itself.<\/p>\n I view Islam as a hybrid ideology in which religion and political ideology are inextricably combined.\u00a0 It make no provision for mosque-state separation parallel to our church-state separation.\u00a0 Malcolm Pollack quotes<\/a> Edward Feser on this point.\u00a0 \u00a0As making no such provision, full-strength Sharia-based Islam ought not be tolerated in the West, and not just because of its vicious hostility to Christianity and other genuine<\/em> religions of peace.<\/p>\n But wait a minute! Doesn’t the very first of the amendments to our\u00a0 constitution guarantee the right to the “free exercise of religion”?\u00a0 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . .” That is\u00a0 what Amendment I\u00a0 in the Bill of Rights says, but like anything in any document, it is subject to interpretation. This is a large topic, of course, but to me it is blindingly evident that the Founders could not have wanted to protect\u00a0 any religious ideology whose core principles are antithetical<\/em> to the founding principles of our great republic.\u00a0 The Founders we not suicidally empathetic or toxically tolerant.<\/p>\n Is a reformed Islam possible, one that is respectful of American values and principles? The moderate Muslim\u00a0 Zuhdi Jasser thinks so, but he is in a tiny minority.\u00a0 Maybe someday Islam will join the civilized world. Until then a moratorium on Muslim immigration is a wise course.<\/p>\n The trouble with the Muslim world is that they never had anything like our Enlightenment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1949, sociologist Jules Monnerot described Communism as 20th century Islam.\u00a0 To which I add:\u00a0 Islam is the Communism of the 21st century. Like Communism, it is totalitarian with tentacles reaching into every aspect of the lives of those it subjugates.\u00a0 And like Communism, it is internationalist in its aspiration and projected reach. My second … Continue reading “What is Islam?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,119,137,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-islamism","category-political-theology","category-political-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14576,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575\/revisions\/14576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}