{"id":8837,"date":"2013-04-23T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/23\/the-lessons-of-boston\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T05:56:09","slug":"the-lessons-of-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/23\/the-lessons-of-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lessons of Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learn Ralph Peters'  lessons of Boston<\/a>, or there may be a pressure cooker in your future.  <\/span><\/p>\n

As for the moral equivalency of Christianity and Islam, Bill Maher, certainly no friend of religion, achieves the right tone<\/a>, "That's liberal bullshit."  When some academic leftist says something that is plainly<\/em> false, his pronouncement should not be treated with respect as if worthy of calm consideration.  Call it what it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Are all Muslims terrorists?  Of course not, and no one said so.  Most are not.  But most terrorists are Muslims.  That<\/em> is the point.  <\/span><\/p>\n

There an important distinction that ought to be observed.  Someone who is a 'Christian' in a merely sociological sense of the term might commit a terrorist act such as blowing up a federal building, it being quite clear that no support for such a deed is forthcoming from Christian doctrine.  But your typical Muslim terrorist is not just a punk from a Muslim land; he is someone whose actions flow from Islamist doctrine.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been told that there are a few  'Buddhists' who are also terrorists.  But if you know anything about Buddhism, you know that there is no support for terrorism in the Buddhist sutras and shastras.  So a 'Buddhist' who is also a terrorist is only a Buddhist in some loose and accidental sense of the term  — he happens to be a native of a Buddhist land or has acquired some Buddhist acculturation — but there is no connection between his terrorist activities and Buddhist teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Islam is unique among the great faiths in that it is as much a political ideology as it is a religion.  In respect of the former, it is like communism, and, like communism, bent on world domination.  Islam is the communism of the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Learn Ralph Peters'  lessons of Boston, or there may be a pressure cooker in your future.  As for the moral equivalency of Christianity and Islam, Bill Maher, certainly no friend of religion, achieves the right tone, "That's liberal bullshit."  When some academic leftist says something that is plainly false, his pronouncement should not be treated with … Continue reading “The Lessons of Boston”<\/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-8837","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\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}