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Missing a Bigger Opportunity than in Iran in 2009?

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Submitted by Ron Thompson (United States), Jul 3, 2013 at 17:55

This comment is also in response to Dr Pipes immediately preceding message discussing his mystifying conclusion that Islam can be reformed, a position which seems to have generated almost unanimous disagreement by more than 40 responders.

There is fairly wide agreement that President Obama flubbed a huge opportunity to undermine and perhaps overthrow the theological autocracy in Iran when he refused to express support for the massive street demonstrations against the regime in June, 2009. In looking back, I am surprised that the issue was not framed by any prominent figure supporting the demonstrators as opposition to Islam itself, or to Political Islam in general, but only to Khomeni's particular theocracy.

Perhaps that means, one can hope, that the next round of opposition to Islamic rule in Iran will be more broadly based.

Now Obama, and the rest of active Public Opinion have an equally fundamental opportunity to express opposition to Political Islam by supporting the even more massive protests in Egypt calling for the removal of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. (As I write, I hear the Egyptian military has just accomplished that!)

I refer to Political Islam rather than "Islamism" for the reason that I believe if it is discredited, then Islam itself must take a huge and perhaps fatal blow. In other words, one doesn't have to get into this arcane and distracting argument of whether, as Dr Pipes suggests, 'Islamism' is not inherent in Islam and therefore needs to be distinguished from it (even if there is not now anywhere, socially or politically, any Muslim society based on an explicitly 'moderate' Islam)

If one makes the judgment that if Political Islam in all its forms - hostility to democracy, to women's rights, to free speech, to freedom of religious allegiance, to 'man-made' law, etc - is defeated, then one doesn't have to attack the religion directly. Because one may conclude that Islam itself will be formidably weakened, perhaps fatally, by its political defeat as a credible form of government or, through Sharia, as a constitution for any viable Muslim society.

I don't understand why we would shrink from contemplating what a titanic event in World History it would be if this 1,400 year old creed of hatred and intolerance should follow the defeat and discrediting of the 74 year old creed of Soviet Marxism and just ….. collapse. Is it something about the age of the creed, or the apparent number of its adherents that somehow immunizes it from contemplation and open discussion by non-Muslims that it might be on the brink of systemic collapse?

Wouldn't this be a world-liberating event every bit as profound and welcome as the political collapse of Communism?

I say apparent number of adherents because, with the death penalty for leaving the creed in majority-Muslim societies – apostasy - who can know the number of true adherents? Especially when the leaders of all non-Muslim societies, despite being hated in principle by devout Muslims, rigidly - I am tempted to say pathologically - censor themselves from criticizing the belief system itself.

Everybody was surprised when Soviet Communism, after Gorbachev instituted Perestroika and Glasnost, reforms intended to reinvigorate Communism, instead within half a decade experienced a total and irreversible collapse of credibility (even if skeleton institutions of repression have remained)

Could that follow the defeat off Political Islam in Turkey or Egypt? (which, again, appears to have just happened in Egypt!)

History saw the collapse of the classical ancient world's Polytheism.

The Western world saw the rather violent collapse of the 'Medieval Synthesis', the authoritarian unity of One Church and religious belief system allied to States supposedly subservient to it, called the Middle Ages.

A century or two later the Divine Right of kings, the principle of legitimacy of all European States at one time or another, and totally alien to any belief in Democracy, began its long drawn out collapse, from 1689 to 1918.

Successive waves of technological change and industrialism have wrought additional revolutions, even if they don't always have clear-cut names and dates.

Why should we now hold ourselves back from calling, loudly and clearly, for the downfall of Political Islam - a virulent totalitarian creed which has successfully resisted decisive change for over 1200 years - and for letting Islam take its chances at being a power in Muslim countries in some other way, while simply refraining from any support for the creed itself.

I will confess that I was completely, and most pleasantly, taken by surprise at the strength of the opposition to Political Islam in Turkey and Egypt. I underestimated the desire for Freedom in these populations, dispiritedly thinking they were terminally docile and likely to accept the chains of an ever more politicized Islam fastened onto their bodies and minds.

It is therefore an ironic spectacle that even as Political Islam in European States gets much more aggressive and closer to political violence, the leadership and elites of these formerly great States are showing the docility and passivity I previously expected in the Muslim populations (although, ominously, there is no detectable rebellion against Political Islam among the Muslim communities in Europe)

Indeed, as the shameful Appeasement toward numerous and accelerating Muslim demands has gone on apace in European Capitals and in Washington, even as the indigenous publics of Europe get more and more restless at the encroachments of Political Islam, this rebellion of Muslim populations in the Middle Eastern heartland of Islam is the most hopeful sign I've seen since 9/11, when those vivid and painful events largely failed to educate the West, or at least its leaders, about its new mortal enemy.

And so I would ask Dr Pipes, entirely apart from any side discussion about a "moderate" Islam, are you opposed to Political Islam?

Ron Thompson

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I am unalterably opposed to political Islam.

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2What does the word Islam mean? [661 words]dhimmi no moreAug 3, 2014 11:20216458
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2Spot the mistake in the book of Allah [180 words]dhimmi no moreAug 8, 2014 08:48216458
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4Why did Muslims invaded India? And how come Allah is silent about the Hindus? [196 words]dhimmi no moreAug 15, 2014 07:24216458
1The Qur'an says in Q9:60 that Muslims should bribe non Muslims so they would convert to Islam [788 words]dhimmi no moreAug 15, 2014 08:25216458
1Q9:60 says that Muslims have to bribe non Muslims so they can convert to Islam [554 words]dhimmi no moreAug 15, 2014 13:04216458
1Our dear Mazhar did not answer my questions [90 words]dhimmi no moreAug 15, 2014 13:10216458
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1Our dear BA agrees that there is indeed the looting verse in the Qur'an [325 words]dhimmi no moreMay 19, 2014 07:47214095
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2More nonsense [39 words]dhimmi no moreJul 9, 2013 10:27207524
3Much more nonsense [31 words]dhimmi no moreJul 9, 2013 10:29207524
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2i read this as you have no answers [197 words]dhimmi no moreJul 11, 2013 06:38207524
1Ahmadiyyat/ True Islam/Love for All hatred for None. [248 words]Shahnaz LatifJul 11, 2013 14:52207524
The True Islam [100 words]Guardian of DeenJul 12, 2013 10:01207524
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3Teaching Arabic to wannabe Arabs [300 words]dhimmi no moreJul 27, 2013 08:00207524
3No it is terrorized by Islam and the Quranic terrorism verse [237 words]dhimmi no moreAug 4, 2013 13:02207524
1According to your prophet. . . [71 words]DavidMay 6, 2014 20:29207524
1My prophet? [188 words]dhimmi no moreMay 10, 2014 07:15207524
3What do revered Muslims say about al-Ahmadiyya? It is not very pretty [321 words]dhimmi no moreMay 10, 2014 11:33207524
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1Islam cannot be reformed in the next 200 years! [102 words]JustinJul 2, 2013 13:05207519
1Islam is at its top form [68 words]Guardian of DeenJul 4, 2013 07:28207519
1Islamism is an epic failure and a degradation of human intellect [134 words]TomJul 20, 2013 11:09207519
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1Allah and Q14:4 and he leads us kuffar astray! What a disaster [225 words]dhimmi no moreAug 4, 2013 12:45207519
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RichardJul 2, 2013 11:37207512
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1France has not done enough but has done something. [25 words]RichardJul 4, 2013 14:44207512
Will France continue this progress? [27 words]John in Michigan, USASep 15, 2017 22:11207512
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3Going to Mars. [97 words]Manelis AngelakisJul 2, 2013 10:36207509
7Islam Cannot be Reformed [150 words]Stephen BlantonJul 2, 2013 10:19207508
1Islamic reform is a Pipe dream [181 words]LorthogJul 3, 2013 21:14207508
Reform Muslims not Islam [159 words]guardian of DeenJul 4, 2013 07:42207508
Islam Cannot be Reformed [110 words]Stephen BlantonJul 6, 2013 11:10207508
1misleading the people [1154 words]Guardian of DeenJul 9, 2013 03:31207508
3A question or two. [94 words]
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Jon MCJul 2, 2013 09:29207507
Wow [70 words]john W. McGinleyJul 2, 2013 09:20207505
1A good non-spiritual analysis [78 words]David FergusonJul 2, 2013 06:55207497
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Misleading [60 words]
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2Islam can never be reformed!! [99 words]JaladhiJul 2, 2013 16:08207491
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1Constitution and Quran [238 words]Porky's2istanJul 3, 2013 05:32207487
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1New synthesis? How? [237 words]Jason PappasJul 1, 2013 23:01207483
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1Yes, but in my life time? [57 words]infosiftingJul 1, 2013 21:53207480
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You could not be more wrong [78 words]Duard HammJul 1, 2013 20:51207477
1Can Islam incorporate The Golden Rule [89 words]Brett McSweeneyJul 1, 2013 20:09207476
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1Can emerge [139 words]
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Henk TwerdaJul 1, 2013 19:26207474
Pipes an optimist [135 words]Christopher GameJul 1, 2013 19:17207473
... Aliceism? [412 words]TL WinslowJul 1, 2013 18:48207472
2How I Think the Modern Synthesis Differs from the Medieval One [306 words]
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AlexJul 1, 2013 18:48207471
4Reforming Islam [106 words]CarlJul 1, 2013 18:31207470
So why is it still called Christianity and Judaism [31 words]AJJul 3, 2013 09:07207470
Islam can not be Refromed [34 words]Robin RosenblattJul 1, 2013 18:14207469
1where is modern Islam to be found? [20 words]
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cvtJul 1, 2013 14:07207464
Alarming positive points [695 words]Guardian of DeenJul 1, 2013 10:24207460
1Can Islam Be Reformed? [48 words]TomJul 1, 2013 01:47207455
One on the many things I don't get [59 words]ValinJun 30, 2013 21:34207453
5Islam and ayat al-sayf [89 words]
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dhimmi no moreJun 30, 2013 17:26207450
I don't think so, Dhimmi [123 words]Ali BabaJul 3, 2013 01:13207450
1Ayat al-sayf and abrogation [252 words]dhimmi no moreJul 3, 2013 10:58207450
1Who will abrogate ayat al-sayf?? [62 words]JaladhiJul 4, 2013 07:04207450
3Muslim logic at its best [588 words]dhimmi no moreJul 4, 2013 20:13207450
2You make a good point [43 words]dhimmi no moreJul 5, 2013 06:59207450
6Islamic/islamist/sharia Reform an Oxymoron [360 words]Domenic PepeJun 30, 2013 16:35207449
2Indeed Islam and reform are oxymoron together!! [103 words]JaladhiJul 2, 2013 20:28207449
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4What about murder? [126 words]A6Jun 30, 2013 14:38207446

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