Conflicted Religious Identity - West Does Not Need Islam to Interfere

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jul 26, 2021 at 11:40

The arguments of whether Islam needs to conform to a Western model of 'governance' are actually empty and baseless for a variety of reasons, many of which have been debated in this forum under the good graces of Dr. Pipes, who for reasons of measured academia, studied the affirmations and the rejections of religious influences that have plagued the Middle East for millennia and have yet to reach any confirmed sense that Islam in its original settings of the Dark Ages is anything else than a replacement theosophical ideology intended to thwart the message of the Messiah as He had commissioned His disciples to teach around the world, only to be breached from within by less than faithful followers that infiltrated Christianity as was predicted nearly two thousand years ago.
Islam, in its basest form, cannot, will not be conformed to 'Western ideal's' for one very fundamental reason: it is adversarial at its core.
More to the point, in spite of the specialized intentions of trying to make Islam a 'moderated' religious aspiration, to do so violates that very basest core precept and it cannot be called Islam any more; Muslims who are seeing that Islam does not seek their common good and seek relief from the religious subjugation (like Dr. Pipes' is reporting with observations of countless souls seeking spiritual relief); these are not looking for 'Western societal models' to be their salvation, but they are seeking the Messiah (who by the way, does not teach 'Western societal models') who has promised freedom of the spirit to worship Him that is the source of spiritual freedom. The 'Western' model of Christianity is compromised by Gnostic (and some cases, somewhat anti-Semitic) strangulation of the truth about Yeshua, Jesus; and if one needs further proof of that, try to defend the government of America's former dependence on Divine Providence in its continued attack of religious freedom by the current administration; the adversary laughs.
In the final analyses, Islam IS its own model of governance; its struggles are with the truth of its own failing to understand the frailty of the human conscience. Mankind in its humanity, after all, is fallen already and needs to find and choose the right Savior to understand the truth of life. Neither occidental nor oriental societal models are able to accomplish that; it is superseded by the original model; but who is searching for that?

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