Beautiful + Strong Reaction to Islam by passionately knowing what we are FOR, instead of only AGAINST

Submitted by Demsci (Netherlands), Jan 9, 2016 at 12:38

Great post, it resonated much with me. Yes, look at our sworn enemies; how well they know what they are FOR + how much they want to fight for it. Then look at Westerners, in general
- "neutral", consumerist, divided + quarreling, or
- counterjihadist, but then primarily pointing to what they are AGAINST; Islam.

Positive Psychology says that people should not only want to REDUCE the "bad deviations from the normal", in this case Islam is seen as bad deviation from normal standard societal system + mindset,

but should want to identify what they see as a "positive exception from the normal", in this case our great constitution, democratic system etc as being hardly ever promoted in our minds, conversations, schools, media, politics + if so, without much passion, motivational power.

Muslims have Most Important Guiding (MIG)Texts, Quran-Sira-Hadiths, we could identify ours too, like our constitution or texts of great thinkers.
We now go against Muslim's doctrines, it would be nice to see them going on against ours for a change. Let them be afraid of us!
We have a big advantage; our MIG texts need not be seen as coming from God, and thus can be updated, to make them so much clearer than the antequated MIG-texts of the Muslims. We can then compare + mock these texts for their lack of clarity, completeness + updates in cases of alleged massive misunderstanding of them.

With you I hope for a much more positive, beautiful + strong reaction to encroaching Islam.

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