Islam is an ideology that is less about faith than it is about governance. This combination of Western trappings and Islamic interior will doom the West because Islam is an ideology that is less about faith than it is about governance. Unlike their Western liberal patrons, Muslims do not recognize any distinction between church and state. Which means they are bent on imposing their religion on the state. Western liberals believe that most Muslims are moderate. Most Muslims, however, believe the remedy for all social political and moral ills lies in Islam.
A believing Muslim, whether Westerners consider him an extremist or a moderate, will believe Islam and he Koran have the solution to society’s ills. Social problems are caused by a lack of Islam. In his worldview, Muslim countries can only repair their problems through Islam. And non-Muslim countries in the Dar al Kufr (Realm of the Infidels), Dar Al Harb (Realm of the Sword) are bound to be even worse off because they don’t follow Islamic Law. Which ultimately means their only solution is Islam.
In such a scenario, Sharia is inevitable because, as Western liberals think of social reforms in terms of added government control, Muslims think of reform as added clerical control. This makes Muslims and Socialists seem like natural allies, at least for a time, because both confuse reform with centralization that takes individual liberties. Meanwhile, the Western liberal is deluded enough to think that any application of Sharia law will be moderate, when in fact it will be no such thing, as the Muslim understanding of the world is radically different than the Western understanding of the world.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York based writer and freelance commentator. He maintains a blog at Sultanknish.blogspot.com Daniel can be reached at sultanknish@yahoo.com.
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