The real problem isn't Islam or Muslims but Western Marxists
Before dinner I wrote:
I'd be quite happy if civilized Mahomedans would simply distance themselves from the more primitive aspects of the Koran just as enlightened Jews and Christians have done so with the less savory aspects of their scriptures for nearly five hundred years.
That will happen eventually and jihadism will be seen as just a blip on the screen of history. Meantime we're stuck with the fact that the majority of Muslims are semi-literate peasants. Yes, there is a large Muslim middle-class but it is a fake middle-class only recently created by oil wealth. Too many boy- and goat-fucking peasants became too rich too quickly. They are half-baked. Their education is skin-deep. Their big-mouthed imams are basically madmen.
The problem isn't Mahomedans. The problem is the literal interpretation of primitive "scriptures" by a small bunch of raving religious lunatics. Of course that is compounded by the fact that Western communists have exploited Muslim rage at Israel.
And that brings me full circle to my contention that the real problem isn't Islam or Muslims but Western Marxists who only love peasants when they are revolting.
I propose that those followers of Mahomed who wish to be accepted as Americans should start by calling themselves Mahomedans. That way they distance themselves from fanatical Islamists in the same way as those of us who call ourselves "cultural Christians" distance ourselves from organized Christianity.During dinner the three merry men were talking about this and I realized that the phrase "organized Christianity" is incorrect. It's more about "cultural Christians" distancing themselves from scriptural literalism which some call "fundamentalism." Even Jews have distanced themselves from certain passages in the Old Testament. I don't know any Jews or Christians who stone adulteresses and homosexuals to death nowadays. But I do know quite a few Christians (and even Jews) who eat shrimps and pork now that we have refrigeration.
I'd be quite happy if civilized Mahomedans would simply distance themselves from the more primitive aspects of the Koran just as enlightened Jews and Christians have done so with the less savory aspects of their scriptures for nearly five hundred years.
That will happen eventually and jihadism will be seen as just a blip on the screen of history. Meantime we're stuck with the fact that the majority of Muslims are semi-literate peasants. Yes, there is a large Muslim middle-class but it is a fake middle-class only recently created by oil wealth. Too many boy- and goat-fucking peasants became too rich too quickly. They are half-baked. Their education is skin-deep. Their big-mouthed imams are basically madmen.
The problem isn't Mahomedans. The problem is the literal interpretation of primitive "scriptures" by a small bunch of raving religious lunatics. Of course that is compounded by the fact that Western communists have exploited Muslim rage at Israel.
And that brings me full circle to my contention that the real problem isn't Islam or Muslims but Western Marxists who only love peasants when they are revolting.
posted by Joubert at 6:47 PM
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