Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump has gained a mass following by calling for a blanket ban on all muslims till America can figure out why seemingly ordinary Muslims turn to terrorism.
What follows is an attempt to help answer the question that many Americans are struggling with "Why do they hate us?"
Americans continue to struggle with this question. Trump has recognized this fear of the unknown and cut through political correctness to attack the heart of the issue.
But for those of us who have experienced Islamic intransigence the answer is rather obvious.
To much of the world Hitler was an atheist who perpetrated the worst genocide in Human history.
Hitler's so called atheist antecedents fail to explain his Jew hatred. What victors of WW II have successfully whitewashed is the fact that the holocaust was a culmination of 2000 years of Jewish persecution sanctioned and encouraged by the Catholic church.
For centuries Catholic indoctrination came with a heavy dose of Jew hate. Jews being blamed for betraying Christ which led to his eventual crucifixion.
This bit of history was used to paint an entire group of people as 'evil' and their rights curtailed and severely restricted.
Jewish ghettos and anti-jewish pogroms were a regular occurrence across Europe much before Hitler's rise in Germany.
It was this swamp of hatred which allowed/encouraged the rise of Jew-hating Hitler. The leap from Jewish persecution and hatred to the Holocaust was short and swift. The ground had been prepared over centuries.
It was only in the post WW II era that the western world and the catholic church curtailed their Jew hatred. Even as late as the 60s and 70s America harbored Country clubs where Jews were banned.
Islam represents a very similar dynamic today. But instead of hating Jews, Muslims from a very early age are taught to hate all things non-Islamic.
This hate takes two forms:
a) the obvious - other religions/doctrines - Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism.....Communism, etc.
b) Practices which are considered unIslamic - Music, free mixing of sexes, free speech, etc.
In addition, loyalty to faith above all else is enshrined as a central tenet and preached through very subtle but highly effective channels.
The practice of nurturing an animal during the month of Ramadan and slaughtering as tribute to Allah servers multiple purposes. It teaches Muslims to sacrifice something they naturally will come to love (an animal they have nurtured) and teach the average Muslim to wield a saw to butcher an animal.
Children as young as 4-5 are taught to enjoy the spectacle of ending an innocent life.
Furthermore, Muslim children are fed on a heavy dose of Islamic supremacy and apocalyptic predictions of the eventual triumph of the Islamic way of life.
Defeat of Islamic forces whether at the hands of the Crusaders or the Marathas are either glossed over or explained as temporary setbacks.
I have known highly westernized, educated Muslims who in an occasional bout of candor have confessed to this self-belief "Triumph of Islam is inevitable".
These combined practices and carefully nurtured beliefs serve to create an primordial soup of hate and disdain for the 'other'.
The 'other' being anyone who does not follow Islam or chooses to stray from its prescribed path.
Much as Hitler was primed to make the leap from Jewish persecution to the Holocaust, Muslim terrorists have been fed on a healthy diet of hatred and supremacy to take the plunge toward martyrdom.
Without understanding and addressing this correlation, combating Islamic terror is impossible.
For the so called moderate Muslim has been exposed to the same levels of toxic hate ideology and detecting the tipping point from hate to terror is impossible.
To fight Islamic terror we must first attack the source of the hatred. The Islamic Supremacist doctrine.
What follows is an attempt to help answer the question that many Americans are struggling with "Why do they hate us?"
Americans continue to struggle with this question. Trump has recognized this fear of the unknown and cut through political correctness to attack the heart of the issue.
But for those of us who have experienced Islamic intransigence the answer is rather obvious.
To much of the world Hitler was an atheist who perpetrated the worst genocide in Human history.
Hitler's so called atheist antecedents fail to explain his Jew hatred. What victors of WW II have successfully whitewashed is the fact that the holocaust was a culmination of 2000 years of Jewish persecution sanctioned and encouraged by the Catholic church.
For centuries Catholic indoctrination came with a heavy dose of Jew hate. Jews being blamed for betraying Christ which led to his eventual crucifixion.
This bit of history was used to paint an entire group of people as 'evil' and their rights curtailed and severely restricted.
Jewish ghettos and anti-jewish pogroms were a regular occurrence across Europe much before Hitler's rise in Germany.
It was this swamp of hatred which allowed/encouraged the rise of Jew-hating Hitler. The leap from Jewish persecution and hatred to the Holocaust was short and swift. The ground had been prepared over centuries.
It was only in the post WW II era that the western world and the catholic church curtailed their Jew hatred. Even as late as the 60s and 70s America harbored Country clubs where Jews were banned.
Islam represents a very similar dynamic today. But instead of hating Jews, Muslims from a very early age are taught to hate all things non-Islamic.
This hate takes two forms:
a) the obvious - other religions/doctrines - Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism.....Communism, etc.
b) Practices which are considered unIslamic - Music, free mixing of sexes, free speech, etc.
In addition, loyalty to faith above all else is enshrined as a central tenet and preached through very subtle but highly effective channels.
The practice of nurturing an animal during the month of Ramadan and slaughtering as tribute to Allah servers multiple purposes. It teaches Muslims to sacrifice something they naturally will come to love (an animal they have nurtured) and teach the average Muslim to wield a saw to butcher an animal.
Children as young as 4-5 are taught to enjoy the spectacle of ending an innocent life.
Furthermore, Muslim children are fed on a heavy dose of Islamic supremacy and apocalyptic predictions of the eventual triumph of the Islamic way of life.
Defeat of Islamic forces whether at the hands of the Crusaders or the Marathas are either glossed over or explained as temporary setbacks.
I have known highly westernized, educated Muslims who in an occasional bout of candor have confessed to this self-belief "Triumph of Islam is inevitable".
These combined practices and carefully nurtured beliefs serve to create an primordial soup of hate and disdain for the 'other'.
The 'other' being anyone who does not follow Islam or chooses to stray from its prescribed path.
Much as Hitler was primed to make the leap from Jewish persecution to the Holocaust, Muslim terrorists have been fed on a healthy diet of hatred and supremacy to take the plunge toward martyrdom.
Without understanding and addressing this correlation, combating Islamic terror is impossible.
For the so called moderate Muslim has been exposed to the same levels of toxic hate ideology and detecting the tipping point from hate to terror is impossible.
To fight Islamic terror we must first attack the source of the hatred. The Islamic Supremacist doctrine.
