polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 30
th, 2018 at 6:33pm:
Frank wrote on Nov 30
th, 2018 at 5:19pm:
If the Pakistanis who come here abandon Islam, fine, I believe your point. Otherwise no. If they continue to stand for Islam then they are like these 'Islamists'
Thats just lunacy.
You are seriously saying that muslims who come here, integrate perfectly well, work, contribute to society and have nothing but disdain and condemnation for the notjobs who scream for blasphemer's blood that they moved away from - are literally no different to the nutjobs they condemn and want nothing to do with?
Do you even acknowledge the simple undeniable fact that there are devout muslims who integrate perfectly well into our society? Probably not
I can well imagine the over-45s, the quiet lifers, who are 'spiritual' and sit in cafes andd say their prayers and harm no-one to be harmless. I can also imagine that they are put out to pasture and make absolutely no difference to islam's direction.
The young ones - i would not trust them for a minute unless they have made some obvious sacrifice to modernity. Talk is cheap and I would not take a Muslim at his word considering their taqiyya.
On the whole I do not believe Muslims when what they say is not backed up by their actions. Your landscape of morality, truth, honourableness, dignity, etc, are very different to Western notions of these things. Islam is an alien, eastern civilisation, like the Chinese, Hindu, Buddhist, and many others. First principles are not shared and cannot be assumed to be shared. Subsequent talk goes off the rails because of that. You inhabit a reality I do not share and do not want to share because what I see of it from my perspective it is a hideous violation and degradation of most of my first principles. As a Muslim adherent to the Koran you live in perpetual revolt against my first principles. You have no other reason to be a Muslim but to revolt against me (christian, western, atheist, secular, other-godly, godless, flippant, unpious, etc, etc) . That's what Islam is - a revolt of the pious. That's all you have, piety. It's idiotic, rigid, mechanical piety. Inhumane, robotic, stark staring piety. it's a lot easier to be a robotic, non-thinking dogmatic than to make yourselves open to criticism and to
make yourselves vulnerable to refutation.
Islam is an honour culture and making yourselves vulnerable and open to criticism is not an option. Any criticism and exposure of your vulnerability drives you, Muslims, to murderous rage.
You are emotional cripples who have never grown up. The BIBI protest in deeply unhappy Pakiland show that. You are stunted because you are locked into a world that disappeared 1400 years ago and you want to return to the ideals of that long-gone time and place. Islam is a misunderstanding of pretty much everything. That's why it is in perpetual revolt against whatever IS.i