{"id":3504,"date":"2013-07-16T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/fighting-the-ideological-war\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T21:17:26","slug":"fighting-the-ideological-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/fighting-the-ideological-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting the Ideological War"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an essay by Stephen Ulph, Islam and Totalitarianism: The Challenge of Comparison, <\/em>in, Fighting the Ideological War<\/em>, ed. by Katharine C. Gorka and Patrick Sookhdeo, 2012.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A conspiracy requires the existence of a constant enemy<\/em>. If for Nazi Germany the role was filled by the Jews, in the case of the Islamists it is actually more than merely the Jew, it is the ewige Kafir<\/em>, the eternal infidel. If the “enemy” defines those with an unclear sense of their own identity in the modern multi-faith pluralist environment, Islamist ideologues make ample use of the device to force the message of an eternal plot of disbelief against Islam. Beyond Jews, Christians and imperialists luring Muslims away from the true faith, the roster of enemies expands to the more sinister, internal conspirators: these are the liberal Muslim thinkers and the secularists. The al Qaeda affiliated al-Neda<\/em> jihadi website provides us with the list and the commentary on elements that pull Muslims away from the true faith:<\/p>\n

The Threat to Islam from Muslims<\/em>
\n“Sometimes a hundred times worse than the hatred of the enemies of the nation, the Jews and the Christians” emanating from the leaders of Islamic countries and the clerics who serve them.<\/p>\n

The Secular Threat<\/em>
\n“One of the greatest threats to the hegemony of Islam and the dominance of Shari’a<\/em> is the American secularism that will be imposed forcefully on the region… The Islamic world will change from dictatorship to democracy, which means subhuman degradation in all walks of life.”<\/p>\n

The Threat of Those Who Abandoned the Islamic Tradition<\/em>
\nSince secularism will be rejected by a large section of Muslims, the Zionist-Crusader coalition is encouraging major spiritual groups such as the Sufis, “who are mostly infidels” and believe in monism, pantheism, and re-incarnation and observe “conscience, inspiration, and other endless falsehoods.” Orders such as the Sufis “oppose Jihad<\/em> and do not oppose the infidels.”<\/p>\n

The Threat of the Rational School<\/em>
\nA “deadly seedling that maintains that Islam is not opposed to atheism, and that Islam must get close to the infidel and coexist with him.” A school of thought, planted by British imperialism and “established by Muhammad `Abduh and which maintains that logic takes precedence over the text [of the Quran].” This school “may become the first stepping stone to secularizing the region, because it is a mixture of secularism and Islam.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More intensive than Fascism, the plot in this case is nothing less than machinations of Satan against the Truth, and his exploitation of the enemies of Islam within<\/em> the Islamic world for this purpose.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No matter how you slice it, Obama fits multiple infidel threat categories.\u00a0 Turns out it was never reasonable to expect he could become a peacemaker between Islamism and America.<\/p>\n

B_Imperial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an essay by Stephen Ulph, Islam and Totalitarianism: The Challenge of Comparison, in, Fighting the Ideological War, ed. by Katharine C. Gorka and Patrick Sookhdeo, 2012. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A conspiracy requires the existence of a constant enemy. If for Nazi Germany the role was filled by the Jews, in the case of the Islamists it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,135,54],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fascism","7":"category-islamism","8":"category-obama","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}