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| ‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’ |
| 2012-01-29 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna The tumult indelibly dubbed “the Arab Spring” in the West, by the credulous and the calculating alike, is easier to understand once you grasp two basics. First, the most important fact in the Arab world — as well as in Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other neighboring non-Arab territories — is Islam. It is not poverty, illiteracy, or the lack of modern democratic institutions. These, like anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and an insular propensity to buy into conspiracy theories featuring infidel villains, are effects of Islam’s regional hegemony and supremacist tendency, not causes of it. One need not be led to that which pervades the air one breathes. The second fact is that Islam constitutes a distinct civilization. It is not merely an exotic splash on the gorgeous global mosaic with a few embarrassing cultural eccentricities; it is an entirely different way of looking at the world. We struggle with this truth, which defies our end-of-history smugness. Enthralled by diversity for its own sake, we have lost the capacity to comprehend a civilization whose idea of diversity is coercing diverse peoples into obedience to its evolution-resistant norms. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Moreso given ... * FREEREPUBLIC this AM > THE USGS MONITORS EARTH'S MAGNETIC SHIELD TO PREPARE CITIZENS FOR MAGNETIC STORMS. 2013 - ??? * GUARDIAN.UK > SUN CHANGES [weak Sun] UNLIKELY TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING, SCIENTISTS SAY. SOLAR ACTIVITY due to weak Sun = at or near the 1822 Dalton Minium. "The Great/Mighty Slushy" indeed. Heres the fun part, thanks to on-going INTERNATIONAL/UNIVERSAL GOVT, PERT CONSENSUS THAT THERE IS NO CONSENSUS > "MAGNETIC/SOLAR STORMS" = "Changes may be heralded by significant Solar Booms/Explosion(s) of unknown or uncertain, Pert-subjective or magnitude or intensity. NOT TOO COLD OR FROZEN FOR JIHAD. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-29 19:07 |
| #2 As per FREEREPUBLIC + DRUDGEREPORT, Study says Global Warming ended circa 15 years ago - MINI-ICE AGE = "THE GREAT/MIGHTY SLUSHY" LOOMS. Well, Camels + Bedouin tents etc. are meant for the desert or arid steppes, not the Cold. Whats the betting pool that RADICAL ISLAM EITHER REFORMS, OR ELSE GOES ON WID WORLDWIDE JIHAD??? Good anti-Ice Migration/Diaspora = Good Jihad??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-29 18:55 |
| #1 Hate Speech; arrest the writer and publisher. Wish I was joking - it would be true even in some Western countries. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-01-29 08:34 |