OPENING THE DOORS OF ISLAM
[This Monday’s Archive was first in TTP on December 21, 2006, almost 20 years ago. We need its message more than ever today. Please let me know what you think in the Comments or on the Forum. Thanks – JW]
TTP December 21, 2006
The threat of Islamofascism – whether in the form of murderous terrorism by such groups as ISIS, the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the Mullahs of Iran, or invasion of Moslem “refugees” orchestrated to Islamize the West and America – has become one of the gravest national security threats to Western Civilization.
Islamofascism is a barbaric ideology, motivated by a fear of the modern world and a desire to return to the medieval Dark Ages of the 7th century. Ultimately, defeating Islamofascism cannot be imposed upon Islam from without. The solution to Islamofascism or “Radical Islam” must be a competing ideology replacing it within Islam itself.
Thus it is argued that what Islam requires today is a Reformation with an Islamic Martin Luther. This is the absolute last thing Islam needs now, the triumph of faith over reason with resultant bloodshed and sectarian slaughter lasting over a century (ca. 1520-1648) and costing the lives of millions, almost half the entire population of Central Europe.
That horror was the Reformation. What Islam needs instead is an Enlightenment.
It turns out there is a term in Arabic for enlightenment, for analysis and interpretation through reason, that has an honorable tradition in Islamic jurisprudence and thought. Get to know the word, for it is the salvation of Islam: Ijtihad.
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a United States Senator from Wisconsin who rose to national prominence in the early 1950s because he dared to confront a reality that much of the American establishment preferred to ignore.
It’s no news to savvy TTPers that every year seems to bring some new miracle drug or nutrient or spice or combination thereof that is going to transform the life of everyone who can just be persuaded to try it.
