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The Key Strategic Question
2006-03-02
Is Islam compatible with a free society?

This is the key strategic question of our day.
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A 'yes' answer offers a far different set of strategic imperatives than a 'no' answer.

To say yes to our question, one assumes that there are aspects of being Muslim and faithful to Islam, that can coexist peacefully with liberty, tolerance, and equality. The strategy that follows is one of identifying the groups and sects within Islam that adhere to these notions of their religion, and then encouraging them, favoring them, propagating them, and splitting them off from the elements of Islamic practice that are all too incompatible with the portions of modernity that invigorate men's souls: free inquiry, free association, free commerce, free worship, or even the freedom to be left alone.

To answer no, one states that Islam itself is fundamentally irreconcilable with freedom. This leads to a wholly different set of tactical moves to isolate free societies from Islam. They might include:

-detention of Muslims, or an abrogation of certain of their rights;

-forced deportation of Muslims from free societies;

-rather than transformative invasions, punitive expeditions and punitive strikes;

-extreme racial profiling;

-limits on the practice and study of Islam in its entirety

And even some extreme measures if free societies find the above moves to be failing:

-forced conversion from Islam, or renunciation;

-colonization;

-extermination of Muslims wherever they are found.

These last are especially ghastly measures. But a society that thought Islam incompatible with freedom might in the long term slip towards them.


Not news to us, but a good rendering; read the whole thing.
Posted by:Glenmore

#5  not to mention the thobes, turbans, and curly-toed shoes
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-02 22:52  

#4  I agree 3dc: You destroy a religion by perverting it, seducing it members, making it irrelevant to life and embarassing to belong to. Silly works too.

That's exactly what Ali Sina said here in a long polemicinterview. It was posted on the 'burg here.

Here's a choice quote:

Muhammad was an idiot, a psychopath, a crackpot. He needs to be laughed at not disproved. What is there to disprove about splitting the moon, climbing the seventh heaven riding on the back of a horse with human face and meeting dead prophets who tell him to bargain with God to reduce the number of prayers from 50 to 5 times per day? Is God stupider than his prophets? The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

Posted by: xbalanke   2006-03-02 22:07  

#3  Paging Isabella of Castille, paging Isabella of Castille ...
Posted by: DMFD   2006-03-02 22:05  

#2  It demands a separation within Islam between the religion and the body politic to survive as a religion.

The question cannot be answered by infidels. To even pose the questions risks riots.

Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827   2006-03-02 21:07  

#1  The extreme measures are not imaginative enough. They are too straight laced, and black and white. They, also, show a lack of understanding of religion and how it goes away. The suggested actions might just make it stronger.

You destroy a religion by perverting it, seducing it members, making it irrelevant to life and embarassing to belong to. Silly works too.

So when ways are mentioned to accomplish this in a non-violent but invasive manner the religous supporters of this war blanch as they know many of the techniques are portable to their reality. Therefore, we must follow the blockhead courses..

Posted by: 3dc   2006-03-02 10:40  

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