Critical analysis of Islam’s impact on society, freedom, and human rights worldwide.
Who Needs Islam?
Long answer: Not only does nobody need it, but the world would be better without it. Nowhere does Islam touch that doesn’t get worse. Nowhere does Islam conquer that doesn’t leave its inhabitants more oppressed. Nowhere does Islam “flourish” that doesn’t witness a new dark age in terms of freedom, education, and human progress. And nowhere does Islam reign that doesn’t unleash the darkest impulses of man’s insatiable desire for power.
Look around the world. Where are the trouble spots? In Nigeria and Sudan, Muslims are massacring Christians. In Israel, Muslims are massacring Jews. In India, Muslims are massacring Hindus. In Bangladesh, Muslims are massacring Buddhists. All across Europe, Muslims are massacring atheists.
And within majority-Muslim countries, Muslims are murdering women. Muslims are murdering gays. Muslims are murdering religious minorities. Muslims are murdering men whose beards aren’t long enough. Muslims are murdering young, unarmed protesters marching for the right to their own consciences.
And for practitioners of selective history who sniff that Islamic Spain was a far more tolerant and learned place than anywhere else in medieval Europe, I’ll remind them that this “tolerance” extended only insofar as Christians and Jews accepted permanent status as second-class citizens. The Islamic caliphate ran the most brutal slave trade on the entire continent, outdone only in later years by the Ottoman slave trade on the other end.
Not coincidentally, the only places in the world that chattel slavery still exists are in Islamic countries.
Now, I imagine that Muslims would counterargue that the vulgar terrorism and oppression and slavery aside, the point of religion is not to make your life easier, but to make you a better person. And they would argue that, to this end, the average Muslim lives a more austere, pious life than the average Western Christian.
And fair enough. One of my biggest peeves against modern Christianity in America is that too many so-called “Christians” simply church shop until they settle on some woke, easygoing, “you do you” church which tells them they’re fine exactly the way they are. The “Christian” then gets to feel spiritual and check a box every Sunday without ever having to do the hard work of self-betterment.
I’m not arguing for the beards and white dresses for all men, nor the bee suits for all women. But there is something to be said for cultures that value at least a little modesty, where tween girls don’t walk into the local Starbucks dressed like pole dancers, and where tween boys don’t slouch around in dirty basketball shorts while sporting those repugnant “llama” haircuts. There is fair criticism to be lodged against a culture that worships “choice” and then uses that “choice” to make the absolute worst choices available every single time in every walk of life. There is a human decency and maturity that resists the temptation to immerse oneself in lifestyles that value only the immediate gratification of the vulgar sensual pleasures.
But wishy-washy Christianity and materialistic atheism are still preferable to arrogant, sociopathic Islam. Living a more austere lifestyle is meaningless unless it results in making you a better person. How does Islam make you better? If it makes you a devoted father, a faithful husband, a merciful brother, and a humble neighbor, that’s great. But if it makes you an abusive father, a misogynistic husband, a genocidal brother, and a tyrannical neighbor, then Islam has made you far worse than you would have been without it. And it will not have mattered how much pork you avoided or how many times a day you prayed.
The Muslim who plows his truck through a Christmas market in Europe, who throws acid in the face of an uncovered woman in Pakistan, or who shoots fellow soldiers on an American army base is raging not against the unbeliever, but against his own impotency. And the same goes for their millions upon millions of Muslim sympathizers worldwide. The allure isn’t a desire for a relationship with God. The allure is control and revenge, with envy and resentment fueling it. Islam is toxic masculinity in its vilest form.
You don’t rage against the West because you think it’s God’s will. You rage against the West because we outperform you in every measurable metric of human achievement and success, and you hate us for it. And spare me the talk about the inherent mercy of your religion. Sure, you’re peaceful enough when you’re less than one percent of the population. But in every instance where enough Muslims amass to gain the upper hand over non-Muslims, you instantly turn on them.
Dearborn. Minneapolis. Paris. Ceuta. Marseille. Rotterdam. London. Malmo. Brussels. New York City. Rinse. Repeat.
This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. It is woven into, and inseparable from, the edicts of your religion. And if the entity you worship is commanding you to commit slavery, rape, and genocide against innocent people, I got some bad news for you. That’s not God you’re worshipping.
Source: Who Needs Islam? – PJ Media
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