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During a brief stroll through my Alma Mater, CUNY, I was shocked to find enthusiastic attention and admiration for Islam. I picked up the monthly schedule of events to find it packed with lectures devoted to Muslims and Islam. The emphasis is on the unfair perceptions in the West coupled with talks about “understanding” the Islamic viewpoint. Critical examination is missing not because Islam is another culture—there is a critical talk on Hindutva—but nothing similar about Islamic culture.
In the Graduate Center’s magazine, Folio, there is a forum on “Immigration and Islam: How will Western Europe cope with its growing and restive Muslim population?” We find that the current revival of Islam among Muslims in the West is blamed on … the West!
Let me leave the absurdity of this notion aside for the moment and focus on something very telling in Modood’s exposition. Notice how he refers to Iraq and Afghanistan. Why would a so-called moderate Muslim be upset with the removal of the Taliban from Afghanistan? Why would a “moderate Muslim” be upset with removing Saddam and ending the civil war in Iraq between al Qaeda and fundamentalist Shiites? Modood clearly see Muslims identifying with the so-called fundamentalists. This only makes sense if there is only one Islam: fundamentalist Islam.
Given the propaganda for infidels, that there is supposed to be a moderate Islam and a few extremists that don’t represent true Islam, we should see vast Islamic support for the defeat of the extremist "hijackers" of Islam. However, here we see the truth coming out … Muslims see fundamentalists as authentic Muslims. No one in this academic forum questioned the implications because these assumptions are tacitly assumed despite the overt disclaimer.
Why the love for such a fundamentalist, barbaric, and oppressive creed? It isn’t just multi-culturalism—note the critical examination of Hindutva. There is truly a love fest for Islam in academia.
See also, today’s article on Front Page Magazine.
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Academia's Love Affair with Islam
During a brief stroll through my Alma Mater, CUNY, I was shocked to find enthusiastic attention and admiration for Islam. I picked up the monthly schedule of events to find it packed with lectures devoted to Muslims and Islam. The emphasis is on the unfair perceptions in the West coupled with talks about “understanding” the Islamic viewpoint. Critical examination is missing not because Islam is another culture—there is a critical talk on Hindutva—but nothing similar about Islamic culture.
In the Graduate Center’s magazine, Folio, there is a forum on “Immigration and Islam: How will Western Europe cope with its growing and restive Muslim population?” We find that the current revival of Islam among Muslims in the West is blamed on … the West!
“The eagerness with which many young Muslims in Britain embrace their Muslim identity would seem to mirror the way Europeans have come to identity these immigrants,” states Prof. Jose Casanova. Prof. Tariq Modood says, “… among Muslims, the younger they were, the more Islamic they were …” According to the author of the report, Modood attributes this trend “to pressures British Muslims have come to feel after the terrorist bombings and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.”The fact that Muslims, worldwide, have been returning to the original practice of their religion (Salafi) over the past 30 years has nothing to do with it according to these academics. They are become serious about Islam because of the West!!!
Let me leave the absurdity of this notion aside for the moment and focus on something very telling in Modood’s exposition. Notice how he refers to Iraq and Afghanistan. Why would a so-called moderate Muslim be upset with the removal of the Taliban from Afghanistan? Why would a “moderate Muslim” be upset with removing Saddam and ending the civil war in Iraq between al Qaeda and fundamentalist Shiites? Modood clearly see Muslims identifying with the so-called fundamentalists. This only makes sense if there is only one Islam: fundamentalist Islam.
Given the propaganda for infidels, that there is supposed to be a moderate Islam and a few extremists that don’t represent true Islam, we should see vast Islamic support for the defeat of the extremist "hijackers" of Islam. However, here we see the truth coming out … Muslims see fundamentalists as authentic Muslims. No one in this academic forum questioned the implications because these assumptions are tacitly assumed despite the overt disclaimer.
Why the love for such a fundamentalist, barbaric, and oppressive creed? It isn’t just multi-culturalism—note the critical examination of Hindutva. There is truly a love fest for Islam in academia.
See also, today’s article on Front Page Magazine.
- Well, Well, Well......
Hillary Clinton: I'll say the words 'radical Islamism'Now that the presumed nominee for the Democratic Party has ben dragged kicking and screaming in to reality, it's time to clarify the enemy. As I proposed in a few posts below, we should...
- Asra Nomani Is A Feminist Muslim And Terrorism Is Saudi Arabia's Fault
Asra Nomani, in an interview with Bill Maher, recently said that she’s a “Liberal, Feminist Muslim”. She also claimed that there is an “ideology” in Islam that is violent and basically insinuated that Saudi Arabia is more or less responsible...
- Moderate Islam Is Our New Religion
Moderate Muslims Are All The Rage From Daniel Greenfield: There is no moderate Islam in the mosques or in Mecca. You won’t find it in the Koran or the Hadiths. If you want to find moderate Islam, browse the newspaper editorials after a terrorist attack...
- Shocking News: Muslims Drawn To Islam.
As many of us argued over the years, there is no moderate Islam. There is just Islam and degrees of practicing this religion. What is known as the Islamic Revival is the return to a full practice of the religion as created by its founder. This trend has...
- Enabling Extremism
Please read Ami Isseroff's take on the controversy surrounding the lecture of the Pope and more in general, the problem of contemporary Islam. Ami takes on Rami Khouri, a moderate Muslim, who wrote this article for the Daily Star. Khouri, in short,...