tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post1448395446234523196..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : You Can’t Reform Islam Without Reforming MuslimsDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27227636454322777572015-12-10T20:40:45.383-05:002015-12-10T20:40:45.383-05:00Reforming Islam presents huge problems for muslims...Reforming Islam presents huge problems for muslims. There is only two basic ways to reform a religion that was formed by a person claiming to have (or be) a revelation from God. Method one is to return to the founders teachings. Method two is to change some of the founders teachings. the latter method is considered to be at least a corrupting of the founders teachings, if not apostasy. We dont want Muslims to return to their founders teaching because his final instructions were ones of violence against and forced submission of unbelievers wherever you find them. We want muslims to depart from Mohammads violent teachings, but that to a sincere muslim is a corruption of Islam as handed down by Gods last messenger, if not outright apostasy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8277910786716916362015-05-21T13:35:37.711-04:002015-05-21T13:35:37.711-04:00This is so depressing...Such barbarism, in the nam...This is so depressing...Such barbarism, in the name of God. God is always silent anyways...he only spoke in secret one last time to Mohammed and a whole bunch of people mindbogglingly believed his gossip..not only that, they did not even try to become worthy of finding this God and having God speak to them to confirm..Not even one!!!!!!!!! What a geniusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48015595338676120702014-10-30T04:14:43.990-04:002014-10-30T04:14:43.990-04:00Daniel Greenfield, well spoken!
There is a need of...Daniel Greenfield, well spoken!<br />There is a need of understanding the different social languages between our modern secularized western society and an at least 1.500 year old behavier!<br />We have been there! BUT it so loooong time ago, further than WW2 (which we now living of today seems not to remember) so which way do we take?<br />The way of '40 year in dessert' or the way of strategic marketing?<br />I missed the 'road sign' at your article!Matsinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09846804035602690259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-17271025119772970602014-10-26T17:54:34.784-04:002014-10-26T17:54:34.784-04:00Western civilization can spend the next decade ( i...<br /> Western civilization can spend the next decade ( if we last that long )<br />Trying to contain and defeat the Jihadist forces of Islam. <br /> We can keep struggling in the quest for the Democratization of Islamic states which we already did and failed at after investing billions in money and blood. <br /> We can try to strengthen the so-called 'moderate branches of Islam, if there is one. They're either being cowed Into silence or winking and nodding to their Islamist brothers.<br /> We can continue to use drones and special forces and police actions but so far That hasn't been effective. The violent Jihadists reproduce faster than we can neutralize them. <br /> We can try making nice with the organizations of 'Soft-Jihadists' who advance Sharia and Jihad through usually peaceful and legal<br />Means (like the Muslim Brotherhood Obama's been backing for<br />The last six years) but that backfired.<br /> The problem of violent Islamic Jihad is more widespread and virulent today than it was even at the height of its glory days when Hordes of Jihadists Advanced on Spain and other parts of Europe, something happening again even at this moment. For Over 1400 years of Jihadist violence, of murder and enslavement, forced conversions, and abuse Of women and children ...and yet still In this modern day and age Islam remains more a retro-sixth century ideology of bloody conquest than anything resembling a religion of peace and harmony.<br /> The world can't wait for this backward cult of Muhammad to somehow 'reform' itself.<br />Not when nuclear and chemical weapons of Jihad very soon will be within the reach Of religious psychopaths and end-of-days fanatics who yearn for martyrdom.<br /> When a beehive is burnt the surviving bees are disoriented<br />And dispersed. Certainly there are many angry bees initially but then they lose their ability to sting and just Disappear and scatter into the countryside and soon die.<br /> There's a lesson in this. The hive is in Mecca. It's called the<br />Kaaba. Or we can continue getting stung for the rest of history! <br /><br /><br />YoelarryUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02041748240040256241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-19007458293583510272014-10-26T17:53:51.804-04:002014-10-26T17:53:51.804-04:00Western civilization can spend the next decade ( i...<br /> Western civilization can spend the next decade ( if we last that long )<br />Trying to contain and defeat the Jihadist forces of Islam. <br /> We can keep struggling in the quest for the Democratization of Islamic states which we already did and failed at after investing billions in money and blood. <br /> We can try to strengthen the so-called 'moderate branches of Islam, if there is one. They're either being cowed Into silence or winking and nodding to their Islamist brothers.<br /> We can continue to use drones and special forces and police actions but so far That hasn't been effective. The violent Jihadists reproduce faster than we can neutralize them. <br /> We can try making nice with the organizations of 'Soft-Jihadists' who advance Sharia and Jihad through usually peaceful and legal<br />Means (like the Muslim Brotherhood Obama's been backing for<br />The last six years) but that backfired.<br /> The problem of violent Islamic Jihad is more widespread and virulent today than it was even at the height of its glory days when Hordes of Jihadists Advanced on Spain and other parts of Europe, something happening again even at this moment. For Over 1400 years of Jihadist violence, of murder and enslavement, forced conversions, and abuse Of women and children ...and yet still In this modern day and age Islam remains more a retro-sixth century ideology of bloody conquest than anything resembling a religion of peace and harmony.<br /> The world can't wait for this backward cult of Muhammad to somehow 'reform' itself.<br />Not when nuclear and chemical weapons of Jihad very soon will be within the reach Of religious psychopaths and end-of-days fanatics who yearn for martyrdom.<br /> When a beehive is burnt the surviving bees are disoriented<br />And dispersed. Certainly there are many angry bees initially but then they lose their ability to sting and just Disappear and scatter into the countryside and soon die.<br /> There's a lesson in this. The hive is in Mecca. It's called the<br />Kaaba. Or we can continue getting stung for the rest of history! <br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02041748240040256241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-12228543881935464142014-10-26T11:40:29.792-04:002014-10-26T11:40:29.792-04:00Re: Eric the Red,
I probably wasn't clear. ...<br /><br />Re: Eric the Red,<br /><br /><br />I probably wasn't clear. I agree with you. <br /><br /><br /><br />This "strength" that my and our secular friends have in believing in nothing, depends on that tent pole, the narrative of freedom established in the Torah and therefore the bible. This is a contradiction that they are only too dimly aware of, even as they exploit the freedom to such extremes as they do. Believing in nothing is in itself a faith, and therefore those who are atheists, agnostics, secularists or liberals have their own religion. All metaphysics is religion. And all religions rest easy under the Judeo-Christian tent pole and the space it clears for us to exercise our freedom. The hard work to keep the tent pole in place is done by the people (the ultimate or preeminent tribe) selected by G-d (some chosen, others who choose) to do the hard work to keep it aloft. Others of us under the tent can exercise their freedom, even to the extent of flying their own freak flag. What our secular friends generally don't appreciate is the gratitude they are obliged to this narrative. <br /><br /><br /><br />How things have come to this in the West is worthy of exploring, and one source that I can point to other than our own esteemed Sultan is the Liberal intellectual Paul Berman, who wrote "Terror and Liberalism". I'm sure that Berman wouldn't agree with the tent pole argument, but he is rare in that he is alert to the fact that Liberals lack the will to fight for freedom in other parts of the world, even though they themselves indulge in the depths of liberty to the boundaries of libertinism and beyond. In this book, he tracks down the sources of extreme freedom that has soured into nihilism, all in the name of creative transgression. He traces the historical evolution of Liberalism's death wish, a death wish that mirrors that in radical Islam. It's a book I highly recommend. <br /><br /><br />Again, we can only fight a holding action until the Muslim world has their own modern reformation. In the meantime, we in the West need our own Liberal reformation, so that we can get our secular friends' mind right, where we all can finally get on the same page and press our will to live into battle against our collective foe's wish to kill and die. BillyTalleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11731812156816305835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-78411885487340467412014-10-25T07:39:30.089-04:002014-10-25T07:39:30.089-04:00Islamists are just like Christians as far as relig...Islamists are just like Christians as far as religion will take them to. They take responsibility for its content, where the priests and the mullahs put their autographs. And the same gies for the jews.Abu Garcianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-26601560451759605952014-10-24T20:58:00.013-04:002014-10-24T20:58:00.013-04:00There can be no discussion about reform of Islam w...There can be no discussion about reform of Islam without confronting the dinosaur in the room which is that half of the population, the females of all ages, are no more than cattle. They're bought and sold, beaten and stoned. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-71535048499492055122014-10-24T16:42:37.263-04:002014-10-24T16:42:37.263-04:00Anonymous FH-AM...
Your exposition almost makes se...Anonymous FH-AM...<br />Your exposition almost makes sense, but you end up saying two contradictory things..<br /><br />On the one hand, you state that freedom is the gift from God to humans, encompassing a narrative that is central to the Torah, and as far as you can tell, can only be found there. Of course, it is also found in the Bible, and expanded upon in the New Testament. You state that you consider this to be the tent pole of Western Civilization, and every other aspect of it depends on this central precept, in part because there is now but one perfect "tribal chief" to which all can belong without getting enmeshed in local and therefore flawed substitutes here on earth. In part I agree with you, as well as directing you to the inescapable conclusion that without it, there is no such thing that is recognizable as Western Civilization. <br /><br />However, next you state that the secularists among you believe you have found strength in believing in nothing (BTW, simply a form of nihilism), which is a direct contradiction to and elimination of that 'tent pole' of civilization you cited earlier.<br /> <br />You can't have it both ways... either the former is a superior model and the cornerstone of Western Civilization to which all its direct inhabitants must embrace, or else secularism without an objective morality from God is now the way to not only be 'progressive' but also to be on the 'right side of history' (a somewhat laughable leftist meme), such that even the backwards barbarian Moslem can transfer his loyalties over to it. Based on this current essay from Sultan Knish, I seriously doubt that is going to happen, but meanwhile, you need to re-think your contradictory and somewhat cognitively dissonant positions. Eric the Rednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-44634520528168091792014-10-24T14:56:46.284-04:002014-10-24T14:56:46.284-04:00You may not be interested in war but war is intere...You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-48869369826106572612014-10-24T13:43:36.538-04:002014-10-24T13:43:36.538-04:00(continuation of my comment, above) used as a rel...(continuation of my comment, above) used as a religiously approved means of spreading the faith.R. Steinbergnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-59019542856416788112014-10-24T12:18:53.583-04:002014-10-24T12:18:53.583-04:00You are apparently unfamiliar with Islam's Pri...You are apparently unfamiliar with Islam's Principle of Abrogation (naskh), which states that Mohammed's earlier revelations are abrogated by later ones. So passages in the Koran which appear to promote tolerance of, say, Judaism and Christianity, and forbearance of violent responses against Muslims' enemies, are in effect invalidated by<br />historically later passages which are far more bellicose. Naskh derives from at least one<br />passage in the Koran itself, which declares<br />that Allah can change his mind and replace a<br />verse with a better one if he so chooses. This<br />dualistic, contradictory feature of the Koran,<br />and hence Islam itself, is often used as a tool<br />by Muslim representatives receiving media<br />coverage to fool, confuse, and at the same<br />time reassure fearful non-Muslims that Islam<br />teaches peace and tolerance, and those who<br />act otherwise in the name of Islam<br />demonstrate a misunderstanding of Islam's<br />true, peaceful nature. Islam not only<br />mandates warfare against and subjugation of<br />non-Muslims, it also endorses lying, which is R Steinbergnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-44401485240002581552014-10-24T11:58:43.995-04:002014-10-24T11:58:43.995-04:00Sufis do not reject the jihad component of Islam. ...Sufis do not reject the jihad component of Islam. Throughout history, prominent Sufis upheld the mandate to spread Islam by the sword.R. Steinbergnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7253709354381849642014-10-24T11:52:58.536-04:002014-10-24T11:52:58.536-04:00Islam is beyond reform, being inspired by a book t...Islam is beyond reform, being inspired by a book that was inspired by a demon, or by satin, himself. If in doubt, remember what Jesus said of satin: "He is a lier and a murderer." and then look at the evidence so clearly displayed around the world today.<br />Islam, in all of its forms must be defeated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-55747494485989777802014-10-24T11:16:04.887-04:002014-10-24T11:16:04.887-04:00Having watched the killings in Canada and now NYC ...Having watched the killings in Canada and now NYC none of this makes sense without a paid and trained fifth column made up of both leftists and Moslems.<br /><br />When you know the immediate playbook, that someone on the left will immediately step up after the killing and do what they do every single time and you can predict it you are not just looking at individual opinions within a general ideology.<br /><br />I am not a conspiracist. A conspiracist make claims according to what he needs the facts to be and different outcomes than he predicts only prove the conspiracy. <br /><br />Nothing is hidden here. The oil producing Moslem states are rich. The killings are in the open and the apologists need to be heard in the media and produce a state of confusion and paralysis. The roles of all are repetitive and predictable. Islamic apologists have a well defined role. They act immediately and the same way all the time. Its money behind it all. Not ideology. Leftist ideology is just the cover.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-24641067052877273422014-10-24T11:05:20.567-04:002014-10-24T11:05:20.567-04:00I am sure that you all know how difficult it is to...I am sure that you all know how difficult it is to change even one persons mind about anything .... how can we hope to change the minds of well over a billion thoroughly brain washed muslims who are want to take over the world and are in fact ... winning!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62867604975647723392014-10-24T08:29:00.390-04:002014-10-24T08:29:00.390-04:00.....converted to anything but Islam...............converted to anything but Islam..........mindRiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160934421830568737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-65724946802824144562014-10-24T03:49:22.032-04:002014-10-24T03:49:22.032-04:00Edward, the Sufis, and those who know the Sufis, w...Edward, the Sufis, and those who know the Sufis, would disagree with you. They'd be entirely right to do so, and it would probably be done as a joke that pointed to religious truths. Which may be the best way I've ever seen for securely encoding religious lessons in an indestructible format.<br /><br />"Islam can produce "tribes," but it's basically a non-philosophical ideology based on an eclectic bag of concretes (Mohammad did this, Mohammad did that, and that's what we should do, too) which Muslims can emulate in various degrees of thoroughness (from passive "moderate" to active homicidal) because the ideology does not require thought or reasoning or questioning."Joe Katzmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917754785464014034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-71339519144563151532014-10-24T01:40:57.104-04:002014-10-24T01:40:57.104-04:00The Koran is duplicitous. In one part it teaches ...The Koran is duplicitous. In one part it teaches acceptance of non-Muslims. In another part, it teaches members to smite the unbelievers without mercy. This is convenient for Muslims depending on their population base within a society.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14391133218362735591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5056086491034148452014-10-23T15:28:24.886-04:002014-10-23T15:28:24.886-04:00the issue is not whether we can go to war with a r...the issue is not whether we can go to war with a religion, but whether a religion is at war with usDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-944869169311759992014-10-23T15:17:28.744-04:002014-10-23T15:17:28.744-04:00We can't "go to war" with a religion...We can't "go to war" with a religion; it's not feasible. If the West decided a war was necessary, they would have to decide a new way of war, not on a Country, the traditional way of war, which is usually decisive.<br />It is far easier to war on Leaders who lead their followers to "kill you and enslave your children".<br />Regards,DenisOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-32106956243749375112014-10-23T14:53:58.825-04:002014-10-23T14:53:58.825-04:00Radical muslims want to kill you and enslave your ...Radical muslims want to kill you and enslave your children, moderate muslims want radical muslms to kill you and enslave your children. We have two choices: 1. Go to war and kill many, many muslims until they are totally defeated/broken. Not go to war and allow the muslims to kill many, many of us until we are defeated/broken. Most are not ready yet to make that tough choice. In time they will change their mind. Hopefully that will not be after it is too late.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-59372483199324921362014-10-23T10:02:31.194-04:002014-10-23T10:02:31.194-04:00Who knew ? It seemed logical, imo, that jihadists...Who knew ? It seemed logical, imo, that jihadists would arise from the class of unemployed, under-educated, and underfed. This article says otherwise, which makes them even more despicable, if that is possible.<br /><br />sophieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-9454072655222285832014-10-23T09:38:48.130-04:002014-10-23T09:38:48.130-04:00Why is the example of the 'progressive' mo...Why is the example of the 'progressive' mosque the one which favors 'gays'? The homosexuals are also evil, just in a different way than the Moslems. Why should we normal people use the PC attitudes as our base in criticizing the evil of Islam?fsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-47979673620366669962014-10-23T08:25:26.391-04:002014-10-23T08:25:26.391-04:00My mother is a Filipina, my father an American. M...My mother is a Filipina, my father an American. My maternal grandfather was the tribal chief of his family, he never accepted the presence of the Yanqui in the clan. I grew up wanting to embrace both but ultimately had to choose because the former identity was exclusive and the latter inclusive. While there are probably many other examples of tribal families that are benign or positive, the example set by my grandfather was negative. He was conditionally loving, overbearing, often cruel and arbitrary. Often I would consider the question while I was young: if he loved us, why is he so cruel? Later, I understood that freedom was a threat to him, like solvent dissolves glue, the presence of the Yanqui meant the eventual dissolution of the family.<br /><br />Every tribe needs a chief, and chiefs are always insecure. Gifts are given and thus incur obligations. Many gifts are needed to keep the glue strong. <br /><br />Over the years, I have come to appreciate the gift of freedom from G-d to mankind, a narrative that is central to the Torah, and as far as I can tell, can only be found there. I consider this to be the tent pole of Western Civilization, every other aspect of it depends on this central precept. As the first monotheism, it seems to me to be the export of the concept of the tribal chief to "the heavens", and a civilizational release from the scalar limitations of tribalist fetters. Freedom is as scary as it is exhilarating or gratifying. I think that the development of Islam is atavism incarnate, a claw back to patriarchal mores where the dudes are once again the cock of the roost. <br /><br />The world has been accelerating into modernity, and the recent collapse of space made it so that there are no obscure regions in the world to hide from the modern future. The tribalists have their backs to the wall, and they are fighting a last stand. They have found strength in belief and the secularists among us believe we have found strength in believing nothing. Ultimately, Islam needs a modern reformation so that it too can come into the future with us. Indeed, we can only fight a delaying action until modern Muslims gear up to fight atavist Muslims. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com