There are none so blind as those who will not see

By Ted Belman

We understand that Islam and the West Are Incompatible,

The problem for the West is that Muslims view sharia law as the word of Allah, an absolute and uncompromising truth that can never be modified. What makes the problem intractable is that Muslims accept the superiority of sharia law based on its foundation in faith rather than reason. Not only do Muslims believe that law must come from Allah, but they reject out of hand the possibility that the existing laws of sharia can evolve as societal conditions change or that any new legal principle can be entertained if it relies on mere reason.

There is, in short, an unbridgeable gulf between Islam and the West, a difference founded in principles and therefore a difference that brooks no compromise. Islam and the West are irreconcilable.

Unfortunately, many do not hold such views and in fact find such views as abhorent.

The anti-Israeli/pro-Palest and exculpating Muslims line certainly got worse after 9/11. The anti-Americanism and anti-white obsession was of course there from the late 60s on.

Edward Said’s book Orientalism took the college campuses by storm abd becmae feequire dreqdeins, even dogma for all Middle Esat studies Department. In it he blamed the problems in the ME on western colonialism.

Phyllis Chesler wrote:

I remember clearly that even among my undergrads in a Portuguese course totally unrelated to these things there were students (Jewish ones) who right after 9/11 started making excuses for Muslims, refused to believe the reports about Arabs celebrating, etc. The path had been laid, and reinforced, though not equally among all groups of students, of course. And don’t forget that identity politics was so well established that even right after 9/11 Bush felt obliged to distance Islam from Muslim terrorists. At the time I remember thinking: wow, everyone, even the president, has absorbed the lessons of identity politics and has to be careful of what they say!

The Guardian published a review of Hirsi Aly’s book Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

“she is loathed not just by Islamic fundamentalists but by many western liberals, who find her rejection of Islam almost as objectionable as her embrace of western liberalism.”

Anonymous wrote in his blog about the Brandeis disinvite of Aayan Hirsi Ali,

the faculty was shocked and appalled that she claimed that violence was inherent in Islam. but isn’t the intersectional analysis that oppression and racism are systemic (ie inherent) to the West.

It always amazes me how so many intelligent people (Bush, Obama, the Pope, Trudeau and many many others, are so quick to defend Islam.

Look at all the people and institutions who rail against a Muslim ban as proposed by Pres Trump. Look at all the countries that have criminalized critisism of Islam or Mohammed.

Whether due to ignorance or politics, it is truly frightening.