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A Correspondent’s Observation Regarding the Difference Between “Real” and “Radical” Islam

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

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I correspond off of Facebook as well (where do I find the time? It’s easy — I have no life), and this is what one from the anti-Jihad had to say about Islam in relation to the progress of the “Islamic State” (AKA “ISIS”, “ISIL”, “ISIS/L”) in Iraq and Syria:

I saw cars lined up. They were part of the death squads for Mosul. (Whilst perusing the jihad portal.) Now that we have rampant crucifixions and beheadings I await the public stoning of women. It is coming. M. allowed it. If it is good enough for him, it is good enough for them. I am determined to no longer reference these acts as “radical Islam”. They are the real Islam. This is real Islam, just as practised in the time of M. Radical Islam, would be an Islam that is moderate, philanthropic and kind. That is radical for Islam. What we are seeing, is the real Islam, based on texts, eyewitness accounts, primary source options from the era of the final Prophet.

With certainty, the entire Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda-type affiliates believe deeply that they are Muslims, never mind with what anomic and casual bents they kill others who believe they are Muslim too.  Of course, what my correspondent suggests with perhaps Christian insight is that those among the middle, mild, and moderate of Islam who stand up to terrorism and argue for a progressive modern society be considered the true radicals.

Why not?

What is it tumbling around in the Islamic Small Wars with a 1400 year old “road map” that tolerates no other instruction or thought but its own?

ISIS would call what it believes and pursues the true Islam, the only Islam, and bar the “radicals” from it.

So one may nod to the most radical of Muslims, “moderate, philanthropic, and kind”.

Related Reference

The Daily Star.  “Report: ISIS captures Syrian border town.”  July 1, 2014.

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Classic Brigitte Gabriel – From 2010

09 Sunday Mar 2014

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The doctor treated my mother before the Israeli soldier laying next to her because her injury was more severe.

Brigitte Gabriel supports Israel as the vanguard against Islamism – YouTube

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I saw this clip some time ago but am watching it now and appreciating it perhaps more than I did when first encountered.

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FTAC composed while listening to the above:

Without Judaism — and I believe without Hillel the Elder (look him up if you are not familiar with the rabbi) — I believe there would have been no Christianity or Islam. Mohammad appears to borrow directly from Hillel, who said, ” whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” I suggest only that we are more bound by our common humanity than by our will to destroy those who disagree with us; and that the Jews have been working on ethical and psychological issues — start with Pharaoh, that great malignant narcissists, start with Cain, that jealous brother — for 5,000 years. I know how you feel about the “poor Palestinians” but it might surprise you to know that Jews feel about the same way, but not so much about the PLO, PFLP, Fatah, or Hamas who exploit or keep their own in ethnic identification captive to the world’s oldest hate.

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FNS – Tawfik Hamid on “Brain-istan”

19 Thursday Sep 2013

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For more than a decade, the U.S. and the West have fought Islamic terrorism predominantly on the military front. Strategists have completely neglected to treat — or even address — the ideological and psychological foundations of the mind.

I call this battlefield “Brain-istan.”

Fighting Terrorism in ‘Brain-istan’, Tawfik Hamid, 9/18/2013

I sometimes feel alone with this blog when reflecting at lay level+ on relationships involving language, cognition, and behavior, i.e., the psychology of language or, I suppose “psycholinguistics”.  It’s therefore most heartening to see Tawfik Hamid similarly engaged, albeit with a different nomenclature.

Call it “Brain-istan” or “Intellectual Battlespace” (thanks, Tammy), reference “psycho-biological” or “psycholinguistics” we’re advancing together along lines addressing pervasive (also archaic and adverse) cultural programming.

Easy does it though.

Even though Hamid notes, “Islamic radicals force women to wear bland, shapeless and colorless dresses, and forbid the expression of any physical beauty,” I / you / we / they know that radicalism falls far short of adoption (on that, reference “Shimmer” around here).  For rather lovely pictures of colorful Islamic dress, web search images related to the breaking news “Nigerian beauty pageant“.

Related: Nigerian woman wins beauty pageant billed as Islam’s answer to Miss World | World news | theguardian.com 9/19/2013

One may hope for culturally convergent evolution to smooth over the rough edges of distinct cultures.  I’d rather witness global peaceful cultural co-evolution — and it’s needed with as many languages and ways intact and included as may be possible — than what’s been going down in Syria (but, hey, that’s just me).

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