The War Against Whiteness

Nah dude. It's rhetoric.

 

Maybe you could learn to take the win. Then again, when you're slipping. . . and only have one issue. . . .

Yeah, I get it.

 

It's weird. You're obviously not dumb, but then you go off on these really tangents, I'm assuming for political purposes, that undermine all of that. Political Correctness or specificity? There are Muslims who are just going about their daily lives while practicing Islam and then there are Islamists who seek to spread Islam - by force if necessary - to the rest of the world.

 

I have worked for several weeks in South Africa in the last 15 years. It is a scary and corrupt country, compared to the U.S. It's not surprising that some whites would want to leave. Of course, they were part of the problem during Apartheid when they refused to share power and wealth with the blacks in the country. They were also part of the problem when the white police refuse to protect and serve, and focus more on traffic infractions to collect bribes (most people hire private security to protect their homes, because police do not answer the call for help). There are a lot of countries like this in one way or another. Why would we want to start rescuing groups of people from around the world while complaining that there is too much immigration into the U.S.? Or is it just brown immigrants that we should object to?

 

About 10-12 years ago, my kid was a competitive golfer, played the Jr "tour" around the Southeast. Played in college. The only people who watch that sport are college coaches and parents. One kid was paired with my kid 2X in two different tourneys in FL. The parents were white Afrikaners. The reason they left and went to Orlando was interesting.

It had become so dangerous that when the Mom went shopping, drove with a pistol in her lap. Got to store and walked in w/ gun concealed. They moved to Orlando because in haste the only city they knew in USA was Orlando due to coming once to Disney.

The stories of crime, anti white, etc. was horrid. Daily Fear! Daily, even though their neighbors were also Afrikaners. As a bit of humor I asked them to talk that lingo, it was very hard, if not impossible to understand "Africanise".

I learned a lot about other countries from parents all over the world...what else one going to do walking for 5-6 hours 2-3 days in a row with 1 or 2 other sets of parent(s)?

 

I challenge this point because I know propaganda tactics and leftist word-smithing when I see it.

By what standard do you know that the people you refer to as Islamists don't practice the religion of Islam?

 

Interesting, because I'm probably right of you. Oh, my bad, forgot you define everything through social issues (very emotional) and mythical grievance.

 

I think what you are failing to see is politics and worldview drive the defining of words as we know them. If the worldview driving the redefinition of the words in the dictionary is false, then there are legitimate grounds to challenge the legitimacy of the words as they are defined. The idea that Islamism is not Islam is suspect. Underneath this is a philosophical conflict over whether words can have definitions that are tethered to historical facts and historical realities. Self definition of one's own identity and religion irrespective of how that self-definition relates to historical realities and historical facts implied by the words being employed seems to be part of the leftist 10 commandments...except when political correctness demands the suspension of the rules of engagement (i.e. Islamic terrorists).

Islamism is the counter example that shows the absurdity, the incoherence, and the contradictory nature of the left's philosophy. It shows the active and intentional suppression and opposition to the truth that leftists actively participate in to produce their worldview. I reject this philosophy in totality because I see it for what it is in all of its absurdity, incoherence, and contradiction.

I instead embrace a view that is grounded in truth: Islam is defined by a person that is historically known as the Prophet Mohammad. It is defined by the written works of the Quran and the Hadith. And it is defined by the way Mohammad and his contemporary followers interpreted and applied the teachings of the Quran and the Hadith. If Islamism captures the core elements of the way Mohammad and his followers believed and applied the Quaran and the Hadiths, then Islamism can properly understood to be Islam. There is nothing political or dishonest about that. That is the honest way to go about framing the question of whether or not Islamism is Islam.

 

Who's suggesting it's not Islam? You guys and these cartoons in your heads. Four paragraphs that does nothing but prove the point I made in the previous post. Literally every issue viewed through the prism of pointless social issues.