Live Leak (18+) reference: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cbf_1376774737 – 8/17/2013 – a storning.

My response:

With regard to Islam in developing or failed states — e.g., Somalia, now Syria, certainly today unsecured northern Iraq — our chatyping class may not appreciate the investment in both evident lore, legend, and promise as well as underlying social formulas that have to do with the exercise of cruelty, force, and will. Some have difficulty leaving their own yesterday, and that thought may apply well to the sentimentality of many a modern Muslim otherwise discomforted by this display of barbarity that well may have been customary in Muhammad’s 7th Century experience.

While the Jews have worked against the infantile and tyrannical from Pharaoh and forward, a look-up of “Hillel and Shammai” — http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iraq-turmoil/helicopter-carrying-yazidis-crashes-iraq-report-n178681 — may tell that the Jewish navigation of an ethics and morality has entailed a long and enduring progressive intellectual evolution: we argue everything! 🙂

The renegade reading of “The Binding of Isaac” suggests that God’s test was not of absolute obedience (in the text of the Torah, God sets out to “prove” Abraham, but what he’s testing is not explicitly defined) but a test of conscience and courage _that Abraham fails_! Some believe Abraham should have questioned God and defended Isaac’s life.

Among the modern, if we are so, we may want to “come forward” of our own fixed positions and find our better way, now globalized, forward. Clearly, what the Muslim Botherhood groups do and what their counterparts among “malignant narcissists” is not the way any large population should wish to travel.

“Come forward” (of your previous fixed position) may become as much a trope here as “Muslim Botherhood”.

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