{"id":6848,"date":"2015-11-16T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/the-problem-islam-or-a-construction-of-islam\/"},"modified":"2015-11-16T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T12:33:18","slug":"the-problem-islam-or-a-construction-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/the-problem-islam-or-a-construction-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem: Islam or a Construction of Islam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diana West<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Islamic society is whitewashed by pretending the dangers it poses to Western societies are non-Islamic (the Left with talk of "extremism"), or so outside the Islamic norm as to render Islam itself beyond debate, beyond concern (the Right with talk of "Islamism").<\/span><\/p>\n

Take a recent essay<\/a> on Paris by Andrew C. McCarthy. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAllahu Akbar!\u201d cried the jihadists as they killed innocent after French innocent. The commentators told us it means \u201cGod is great.\u201d But it doesn\u2019t. It means \u201cAllah is greater!\u201d It is a comparative, a cry of combative aggression: \u201cOur God is mightier than yours.\u201d It is central to a construction of Islam,<\/span>mainstream in the Middle East, that sees itself at war with the West. <\/strong>It is what animates our enemies. ['Construction' here means 'construal,' 'interpretation.']<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We are supposed to believe that "a construction of Islam, mainstream in the Middle East," is what animates our enemies — not Islam. <\/span><\/p>\n

Is that so?<\/span><\/p>\n

If this were ten, five, three years ago, I might ask what Koran, sunnas, and hadiths that this "construction of Islam" is based upon? I might break out the poll data that demonstrates strong Muslim affinity for sharia the world over. I might point to a 2013 study <\/a>of 9,000 Muslims in six European<\/em> countries which found that 65 percent say that religious rules are more important that the laws of the country in which they live.<\/span><\/p>\n

But is there a point? Fourteen years after 9\/11, Islam is spectrum-wide defended in the public square even as it destroys the public square, while the threat to the public square is usually identitied as coming from Europe's so-called "far right."<\/span><\/p>\n

But never fear. Memorial light displays are ready anywhere, anytime.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Diana West: Meanwhile, Islamic society is whitewashed by pretending the dangers it poses to Western societies are non-Islamic (the Left with talk of "extremism"), or so outside the Islamic norm as to render Islam itself beyond debate, beyond concern (the Right with talk of "Islamism"). Take a recent essay on Paris by Andrew C. McCarthy.  \u201cAllahu Akbar!\u201d … Continue reading “The Problem: Islam or a Construction of Islam?”<\/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":[119,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}