Our reader and commenter Whitewall has brought to our attention an excellent article, by the blogger and columnist Daniel Greenfield, on the modern West’s dreamy image of Islam. The gist is this:
Islam never became enlightened. It never stopped being ”˜medieval’. Whatever enlightenment it received was imposed on it by European colonialism. It’s a second-hand enlightenment that never went under the skin.
Read the whole thing here.
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/why-the-iraq-offensive-will-fail-115356.html
(That Flynn feller again.)
It is also interesting that Greenfield states “colonialism” benefitted the Islamic world, and that world curses the West because of colonialism. Ironically, during the early phase of the Cold War, the Soviets used European colonialism to attack the West and proclaim Communism(totalitarianism)to be better. If Islamism isn’t totalitarian then it isn’t anything.
Greenfield’s piece would also cause “liberal heads to explode”. Speaking calm reasoned truth does that.
JK, I mean’t to thank you for that link from “that Flynn feller”. He mentioned a war effort like WW2 or the Cold War. He is correct as a religious centered ideology is the hardest to overcome. With that said, I believe the effort will more closely resemble the Cold War.
Malcolm, thanks for bringing that article by Greenfield forward. I have reread it and it gets better.