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Friday, February 14, 2014

Islam’s Second Crisis: the troubles to come

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12 comments:

  1. Very interesting analysis.
    In response to your final comments: Is this opening a great vacuum of personal meaning/validity into which the anti-christ can slip, as the saviour?

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    1. I don't know about the antichrist, but certainly all sorts of things will be pulled in to fill the gap. E.g. some Iranians are reverting to the Zoroastrian religion.

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    2. Mark, why doesn't your link to "leaving Islam" work?

      I'm interested in reading the article.

      It doesn't work over at NER either, unfortunately

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    3. I have fixed this link now. Thanks for letting me know.

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  2. Really excellent article. Many thanks for drawing so much background together.

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  3. Alas what of the Islamization of at least Europe by demographic conquest? This seems the unseen/unknown Black Swan hideous insidious danger. Once a voting majority in a country, that's it for Western civilization's values?

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  4. Thanks for this highly analytic commentary on the most dangerous religion in the world today.

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  5. islam is great religion i love my religion.

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  6. An excellent article stating what I have been thinking myself for some time. My one criticism is that you underestimate the devastating impact of the information revolutions. Islam fhrived in centuries when books (and writings in general) were very rare due to lack of printing. So people were rarely well placed to study the actual texts which are effectively the only genuine definition of "genuine" Islam. And critical words could not be separated from beheadable heads.

    Islam tried to resist the growth of the printing press but subsequently even "worse" things happened in terms of cheaper printing and finally the blogosphere/commentosphere in which belief-threatening words become completely immune from decapitation. You can see that Islam is getting turned into a laughing stock in just about every forum on the internet, and that is a challenge which Islam has never encountered in all those preceding 1400 years. For this reason it looks to me like Islam is on its last legs and is not going to make it to its 1450th anniversary other than as a dead faith like the ancient Roman gods.
    A latest example is on the Islamophilic Guardian site here:
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/05/unite-defeat-isis-revolting-perversion-islam

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    1. fyi over 90% of Muslims are in touch w/ their faith on daily basis vs the same % percentage of christian who remember god only on Xmas eve which evidently the wrong day to celebrate as christ was not even born in December .i lived in the west for over 30 years i noticed that you have social problem up the yin yang largely due to the lack of religious values therefore producing a society of alchaholic and drug addicts,vds & not to mention high divorce rate .............ect ..........on.on.on

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  7. Further to my preceding.
    Re your comment of a spiritual vacuum being left by the shrinking of Islam.
    Apostates turn in a variety of directions. Some become atheists, others Christians, others other religions. I have heard of them expressing a loss of the community connections but not a loss in spiritual terms.
    Furthermore I think people fail to recognise the extent of triumph of Christendom over Islam in cultural terms. A high proportion of people who think themselves to be Muslims actually have strongly Christian values, just they are fooled into believing they are Islamic or "universal". (Interfaith people also have these illusions.) So these self-styled Muslims don't have to make any radical change of values in dumping Islam.
    Furthermore the huge cultural disembowelment of the Islamic world. Even in Iran, the concept of voting for a parliament of leaders is now treated as entirely normal even though it is an export from Christendom. The western science also has a heavy presence, jarring uneasily with the pre-scientific notions in the quran.
    The Greek-Roman gods lasted about 14 centuries then were supplanted by the superior Christianity. My own bet is that Christianity is now about to see off time-expired Islam too. Christianity has the strength that the Gospels have never promised paradise on earth anyway, rather the opposite.

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  8. I think another landmark was the reconquest of the Sudan and the end of the Mahdi's dervish empire in 1898.

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