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If you have ever tried to tell friends and family about the dangers of Islam (and I certainly HOPE you have!) you've probably run into what seems to be a brick wall, at least occasionally. People seem to deliberately refuse to understand what you mean. Why?
In an article at Political Islam, Bill Warner has a great list of what's getting in the way of people really listening to you. He says, "Once you understand the doctrine of political Islam, there is a question that naturally arises. Why doesn't everyone know about this? ...It is not only that we don't know, we have also developed a systemic social theory of why we will not learn."
Those of us who want to reach the people who do not yet know what we know (and I should think that includes all of us) better clearly understand what this brick wall is made of, so we can fashion ways over or around it.
I think Warner's list is good. Probably a few more things could be added to it.
His list is (he explains each in more detail in the article):
1. Inertia
2. What will we have to do?
3. I know this Muslim and he is nice.
4. Afraid of being called a bigot.
5. Islam cannot be worse than Christianity, so why learn?
6. It's too hard; non-Muslims cannot learn Islam.
7. Fear.
I would add that you sometimes see a look in someone's eyes that says, "I think you're one of those nutballs who gets obsessed with some obscure paranoid threat, and I don't know if I should encourage this by listening."
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Why Won't People Listen?
If you have ever tried to tell friends and family about the dangers of Islam (and I certainly HOPE you have!) you've probably run into what seems to be a brick wall, at least occasionally. People seem to deliberately refuse to understand what you mean. Why?In an article at Political Islam, Bill Warner has a great list of what's getting in the way of people really listening to you. He says, "Once you understand the doctrine of political Islam, there is a question that naturally arises. Why doesn't everyone know about this? ...It is not only that we don't know, we have also developed a systemic social theory of why we will not learn."
Those of us who want to reach the people who do not yet know what we know (and I should think that includes all of us) better clearly understand what this brick wall is made of, so we can fashion ways over or around it.
I think Warner's list is good. Probably a few more things could be added to it.
His list is (he explains each in more detail in the article):
1. Inertia
2. What will we have to do?
3. I know this Muslim and he is nice.
4. Afraid of being called a bigot.
5. Islam cannot be worse than Christianity, so why learn?
6. It's too hard; non-Muslims cannot learn Islam.
7. Fear.
I would add that you sometimes see a look in someone's eyes that says, "I think you're one of those nutballs who gets obsessed with some obscure paranoid threat, and I don't know if I should encourage this by listening."
- The Longest War
Dave Rubin recently interviewed Dr. Bill Warner about Islam. It's one of the most civil and straightforward talks about Islam I've ever heard. The most insidious and, in my view, critical part of Islam is discussed at 13:50 in Part I. Also, at...
- Statistical Islam
An Anonnymous commenter left this important comment: Bill Warner, at the Center for the Study of Political Islam, has written a pamphlet called "Statistical Islam" (see page 4 of pdf) which reveals 60% of Islamic doctrine (trilogy Hadith, Sira, koran)...
- A Response To Ms. D
By the Anti Jihadist Despite our obscurity here at our divisive, racist, hate-mongering Islamophobic blog, despite being blocked by Muslim governments in the UAE, Malaysia and probably elsewhere, occasionally the Mohammedans find us and leave us comments....
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Answers to Objections When You Talk About Islam An excellent post from Citizen Warrior:BELOW IS a list of responses you are likely to get when talking about the terrifying brilliance of Islam to someone who knows little about it. Most of the responses...
- Andrew Bostom On Fpm
Andrew Bostom provides a summary of Islam’s imperialist roots in another of his comprehensive articles. In the 1930s we had a decade to learn about Nazism. By the time of the communist conquest of Eastern Europe we had three decades to learn about the...