By Prof Paul Eidelberg, President, Israel-America Renaissance Institute
Part II. A Transnational Study of Islam
This installment will review what ancient and modern scholars of diverse nations have said or written about Islam. We shall now show, inter alia,
(1) that the reigning Ash’arite school of Islam, which rejected the rationalist tradition of classical Greek philosophy, has been engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Western Civilization since the ninth century;
(2) that Muhammad, the founder of Islam, did not purge this creed from the polytheism and paganism of pre-Islamic days;
(3) that Islam, cloaked in the veneer of monotheism, is not consistent with the discoverer of intellectual and moral monotheism, the Patriarch Abraham;
(4) that Islam, which now holds sway over some 1.5 billion Muslims, is utterly opposed to Judeo-Christian civilization;
(5) that Islam is fundamentally irrational, which is why it was rejected by one of the greatest Muslim philosophers al-Farabi, a disciple of Plato and Aristotle, who, to avoid punishment or death, was a Muslim in dress only;
(6) that countless scholars in the West have sacrificed their intellects by obscuring the true nature of Islam and its existential threat to Western Civilization, indeed, to civilization per se; and
(7) that the Western notion of Muslim ‘moderates’ is an escape from reality; and (8) that Islam cannot undergo a reformation without denying it as a revelation of God.
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