[MD] Muslim Mechanisms

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All MOQ Discuss.
 I haven't given up on getting some grip on the Islam enigma. Khaled  
harps on the sociological, economical and colonial issues, all is 
somebody else's fault, but that can't be reason behind terrorism for 
instance, Saudi Arabia was never a colony - except under the Ottoman 
Empire and Bin Laden & Co. aren't exactly poor and huddled. Yet it is 
the Arabs who are the travelling emissaries of Islamism-as-terrorism. 
There are a few converts in this country - mostly women - one of them 
a university professor. She has just written a book "Muslims in new 
territories" where she proclaims an emerging "Euroislam" where 
women will be normally clad and have all the rights and worth that men 
have, she says that her mission is to work for such an Islam. If this 
includes dropping all other antics: Circumcision, halal-slaughter and 
the other rules and regulation the Koran demand from a devout 
Mualim I don't know. Yet, she was opposed by a fellow female "native" 
Muslim who doubted this development and pointed to second 
generation young Muslims who turned more pious than their parents 
and demanded all rules and regulations to be observed or worse 
decides to become martyrs like the London bombers..  There is also a 
Swiss - Tariq Ramadan - who predicts such a Euroislamic 
development and says that they must respect democracy and become 
normal citizens of their country. Only this shows the peculiar role the 
Muslim casts themselves in - uncannily like the Jews who never are 
Americans, Swiss, Norwegians ... whatever, but primarily remain Jews, 
this seems to be a fate to be repeated by the Muslims and proves my 
"Semitic" theory. This is very unlike nother immigrant groups. After the 
communist take-over a lot of Vietnamese came to this country and 
they clearly are of IndoChinese origin - their names and looks  tell - but 
no trouble, they may have an altar at home for all I know but no 
conspicuous signs of being "different". This goes for other immigrants 
from that region, Tamils, Thais, Burmese and Chinese. While the few 
Jews who are left are still primarily Jews. The Semites are 
unassimilable for the reason that the secular/religion schism is their 
EVIL The moment they become national subjects they are no longer 
themselves and if Islam is to evolve into the said Euroislam - become 
a mere faith - it has lost its power. Iit's the fate of Christendom in the 
West that scares the ... out of the Al Qaedians. And this is not the first 
time, around year 1000 - while Europe still was in the grip of he Dark 
Ages - there emerged Sultans and Kalifs who hosted  thinkers and 
scientists and because secularism -  thinking outside of religion  -  is a 
deadly danger there emerged the "Order of Asasssins" who eradicated 
the budding science and philosophy and sent the region back to 
square one. It looks as if each time secularism threatens, Islam 
spawns some movement that removes the danger. That all this is an 
intellectual value  versus social value struggle example  goes without 
saying . The South East Asians slipping so easily into other cultures is 
their having transcended both the social and intellectual levels and 
entered the Quality Stage is just as obvious. .  

Bodvar





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