{"id":7823,"date":"2014-07-22T05:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T05:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/islam-as-a-gang-religion\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T05:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T05:06:22","slug":"islam-as-a-gang-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/islam-as-a-gang-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam as a Gang Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Kilpatrick, The Gender Confusion Challenge to Army Recruitment<\/a>.  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As usual, the mainstream media is all wrong about Islam. In FrontPage Magazine<\/em><\/a>, Daniel Greenfield points out that \u201clooting was the core of Muhammad\u2019s conquests.\u201d And it came with Allah\u2019s seal of approval. Numerous passages in the Koran and in the biography of Muhammad attest to the legitimacy of booty as the proper reward of fighting. Islam has no trouble with looting, says Greenfield, because it is \u201cinnately a gang religion\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

The gang \u2026 finds meaning in the ethos of the fight and in the comradeship of fellow gang members. That is why jihad is so central to Islam \u2026 Jihad is the gang culture of Islam. Its bonding rituals are central to Islam, whose original elements derive mainly from the raids of Mohammed and his companions\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Young men don\u2019t join gangs just for the booty, but also for the sense of brotherhood the gang confers, and, perhaps primarily, for proof of masculinity. Psychologists and sociologists have known for a long time that gangs are particularly appealing to fatherless boys because boys who lack the guidance of fathers are most likely to feel insecure about their masculine identity, and thus most likely to seek confirmation of it in the ultra-masculine activities of gangs. Social scientists were hardly the first to discover this basic fact of male psychology. From the earliest times, almost all societies developed special rites of initiation for males to assist them in the passage from boyhood to manhood, and to channel them away from anti-social activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

When boys grow up in communities without the guidance of fathers and elders and without established rites of initiation and confirmation, they tend to create their own initiation groups and rituals of passage. This is why modern urban areas with high concentrations of fatherless boys are the places where gang formation is highest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The epidemic of fatherless boys is a worldwide phenomenon and it spells more recruits for the Islamic jihad. The reason the jihad doesn\u2019t have a recruitment problem is that it appeals to basic masculine psychology. It promises action, male bonding, legitimate looting, a cause to fight for, subservient females in this world, and dozens more in the next. It\u2019s the reason Muslims have been extremely successful in recruiting prisoners to Islam both in Europe and America. As I noted in Christianity, Islam, and Atheism<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

In the United States, roughly 80 percent of inmates who find faith during their incarceration choose Islam. Many of these men are in prison in the first place because they were attracted to the masculine world of gangs. Now they\u2019re being offered the chance to join the biggest, most powerful \u201cgang\u201d in the world. We\u2019re seeing the beginning of a trend in the West: fatherless boys joining gangs, then ending up in prison, then coming out of prison as converts to Islam and the jihad. (p. 169)<\/span><\/p>\n

There seems to be no shortage of young men willing to join up with the warrior culture of Islamic jihad. How about our own warrior culture\u2014the U.S. military? The military still produces warriors, but the military culture is changing in ways that may make it less attractive to potential future warriors. Traditionally, the military has served, among other things, as an initiation into manhood. Past Marine recruiting campaigns, for example, were built around themes such as \u201cThe Marines Make Men\u201d or \u201cA Few Good Men.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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William Kilpatrick, The Gender Confusion Challenge to Army Recruitment.  Excerpt: As usual, the mainstream media is all wrong about Islam. In FrontPage Magazine, Daniel Greenfield points out that \u201clooting was the core of Muhammad\u2019s conquests.\u201d And it came with Allah\u2019s seal of approval. Numerous passages in the Koran and in the biography of Muhammad attest … Continue reading “Islam as a Gang Religion”<\/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":[180,119,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-islamism","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","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=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}