Islam Must be Repudiated
Reader comment on item: The Real Meaning Of The Term 'Islamist'

Submitted by Edward Cline, Feb 28, 2013 12:31

I think it's fool's gold for Muslims, here or in Britain or anywhere else, to embrace a "more self-critical approach" to Islam and Islamists, nor do I think it would, in the long-term, be profitable for anyone, Muslim or non-Muslim, to subscribe to the notion that Islam can be watered down to become a benign religion that tolerates other faiths, ideologies, and non-believers. Islam is, fundamentally, a political ideology whose secondary identity is a theocratic one. Should all the violent, belligerent verses and content be excised from the Koran and its companion texts, there would still remain in the background that defining nature of Islam. Remember that the later verses abrogate the earlier, and it's the later verses that define Islam and Islamism, not the later. Just as one can excise all the socialist, authoritarian premises from Progressivism and Marxism and Nazism, and make either of them seem like a collection of inoffensive, feel-good homilies, one cannot excise the aggressive diktats from Islam by hiding them from sight and not expect them to reemerge over time. They will always be there, and will, over time, work themselves back into the forefront and become the nemeses they are.

Philosophy can't be toyed around with by simply saying "It isn't so, we don't really mean that." A head-to-toe philosophy such as Islamism must be repudiated root and branch. That is the task which faces the Quilliam Foundation in Britain and its sister organizations, wherever they may be found. 'Well-intentioned" Muslims who boycott mosques where Islamism and jihad are preached seem to want to have their cake and eat it, too. It can't be done.

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