{"id":6193,"date":"2016-09-24T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/24\/the-islamization-of-knowledge\/"},"modified":"2016-09-24T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T05:49:14","slug":"the-islamization-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/24\/the-islamization-of-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Islamization of Knowledge’"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have heard me say it before.  There is a deep link between the Left and Islam in respect of the assault on reason and the substitution of narrative for truth. This linkage helps explain the otherwise puzzling Islamophilia of leftists.  Leftists hate religion except for 'the religion of peace.'<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew C. McCarthy<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The most consequential organization in radical Islam is the Muslim Brotherhood. Laying the groundwork for its American network, the Brotherhood gave pride of place to an intellectual enterprise, the International Institute of Islamic Thought. The IIIT\u2019s explicit, unapologetic mission is the \u201cIslamization of knowledge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not a slogan or an idle phrase. The mission traces back to the ninth century. Its purpose was to defeat human reason. In this fundamentalist interpretation, Islam is a revealed, non-negotiable truth. Reason, rather than hailed as mankind\u2019s path to knowledge and salvation, is condemned for diverting us from dogma. Knowledge therefore has to be Islamized \u2014 reality must be bent and history revised to accord with the Muslim narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

But with the demise of reason comes the demise of progress, of the wisdom that enables us to solve problems. That is why Islamic societies stagnated, and why the resurgence of fundamentalism has made them even more backward and dysfunctional.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is this way with every totalitarian ideology. We\u2019d be foolish to assume it can\u2019t happen to us. Slaves to narrative are fugitives from reason. Their societies die.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You have heard me say it before.  There is a deep link between the Left and Islam in respect of the assault on reason and the substitution of narrative for truth. This linkage helps explain the otherwise puzzling Islamophilia of leftists.  Leftists hate religion except for 'the religion of peace.' Andrew C. McCarthy: The most … Continue reading “The ‘Islamization of Knowledge’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","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=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}