Posted on 12/18/2007 11:37:23 AM PST by BGHater
It is. The full title is “The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West”
We lost over 200,000 soldiers fighting those tyrants tooth and nail, and ended up fire-bombing and killing their cities (including many, many civilians in them caught up in the struggle) to the point where not only their armies were defeated, but the PEOPLE WHO HAD SUPPORTED THOSE ARMIES WERE ALSO ABJECTLY DEFEATED and wholly ready to surrender unconditionally.
Some people do not like it when I say it, but, in essence, we made "good" Germans and "good" Japanese out of those peoples and it has largely endured to this day.
It's time we made "good" Muslims out of the radical Islamics and all who support them.
IF that's what you believe, then you wont mind me telling you to go to hell!
Right is right, wrong is wrong. Good is good, evil is evil. Truth is truth, lies are lies.
IF you cant/wont distinguish the difference between them you are either a clueless idiot, or a tool of evil.
Here’s a funny thing to think about... well, not funny really.. but, if the United States (and most other countries) suddenly ceased to exist in it’s current form, let’s say due to a major, global disaster (Asteroid hitting the planet for example).. the world would be reduced quickly to small, surviving enclaves of humans who would effectively save themselves as best they could and most likely would NOT adopt something like “Federalism” and a Constitution to continue to exist.
In short, they’d kill anyone trying to take their survival benefits (food, land or whatever) and it would be... golly, tribalism. And they’d survive just fine without Congress wouldn’t they?
No "perhaps" about it. Islam is just a cult which sanctifies all the ugly tendencies of tribal patriarchal pastoral-nomadic culture by cloaking them in a sham "religion." It's Jim Jones' People's Temple on an immense scale. Polygamy, genital mutilation (to keep the young subjected to the chieftains), slavery, brigandage, etc. All ancient traditions among pastoral nomads of the Arabian region.
They’re also called ‘liberals’
Hmmm... perhaps we should note that not all tribal systems are created equal. Islam doen’t equal tribalism and tribalism doesn’t equal islam. And none of it can stand up to nationalism, ask the Scots or the amerinds.
There's a guy I know from Iraq who says that Saddam Hussein decreed that all existing last-names were void, and would be replaced by the person's father's first name, in an attempt to weaken extended families.
That’s the elephant in the living room that virtually no one wants to see. But it is the undeniable and logical conclusion at which we must arrive if we want to save our own civilization.
I just received this book. Every page contains gems.
That's like the old Irish and highland Scots (definitely tribal or clan societies) with their O'- and Mac-Somebodies. Russians have their patronymics, and Scandinavians their -sons or sens. Tribalism is deeply rooted, but has been suppressed in the West by Christianity, the rule of law, and capitalism. Even so, peoples as similar racially as Flemings & Walloons, or Czechs & Slovaks, cannot get along.
Yep. See #34...just finished posting. What a coincidence, lol
It is important to differentiate between anthropological/sociological descriptions of human behavior and their philosophical sources. Indeed, one of the great philosophical failures of the 20th century has been an overemphasis on sociological models as normative instead of merely descriptive. That sort of mistaken emphasis is what has given rise to class analysis and the attempt to deal with human intercourse purely on the basis of power relationships between collectives. That is how an outsider might suspect we behave by appearance and in the absence of better information, but (1) there are no outsiders (short of God) and (2) there is better information.
That the source of political rights resides within the individual and not within a collective is one of the deep truths of the Enlightenment that was the inevitable consequence of that individual's relationship with his or her God, whatever form the latter might take. It is one of the foundational characteristics of what we term Western civilization. The challenge to that composed of the denial of God and the supremacy of the collective has led us down the pathway of tribalism largely because in the absence of the structure of Western civilization the survival mechanisms kick in. It is not a superior set of cultural behaviors, it is a primitivism that is clear evidence of the failure of those alternate behaviors that pretended to be superior.
Tribalism may be transcended by such structures in that way, and in fact only in a healthy society is this possible. Where, for example, a member of an ethnic group may consider himself or herself primarily an American and still maintain that ethnic identity, this is not a sign of a misplaced loyalty but a sign that where the repository of political rights is in the individual, that individual is free to apportion those loyalties as he or she chooses and not at the behest of the demands of the collective. This is not simply a transference of subordination to a larger collective. What is significant is the individual's ability to decide.
Excessive tribalism in American politics is, ultimately, un-American. It strikes at the very foundations of the overall social structure and imposes the claims of the collective. It is useful for those who who wish to control individuals through the demands of the collective. These are chains.
All IMHO, of course.
Besides all those primitive blood-line clan names, it’s struck me that many English (and other Euro) surnames are vocational; they denote an occupation or craft: Cook, Clark (clerk), Miller, Smith, Wright (Wheelwright, Wainwright, Cartwright, etc.), Carpenter, Fuller, Weaver. I think this is evidence of settled, civilized society with lawful market exchanges of services, over a period of many centuries. I doubt there is anything like that in Arab or other nomadic-tribal-brigand cultures.
Islam is far too large and disconnected to be destroyed militarily. We need to destroy it by not being afraid to offer its children better options than the imams do. And that means we must be an example of that better option, and not the increasingly corrupt welfare state we are morphing into.
Good point. Although the name Khayyam means “tent maker” in Arabic....that’s as advanced as they got.
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