A New World Order?
So here's the story: Islamists, militant Muslim fanatics don't, it is true, represent Islam in its entirety. But they certainly represent a certain type of Islam, one most practising Muslims wouldn't even recognize, in its transposition from medievalism to the present and back again. Religions of the world were, as an intelligent and reasonable human construct, designed to connect people, to teach great congregations of geographic groups how to get along, to live together under a single canopy of peace and understanding, to practise certain morals integral to humane life, and the unifying principle was the recognition and praise and obedience to a higher order, a distinctly unhuman but all-powerful Guiding Spirit.Adherence to the religious ideology and worship of the God-figure was paramount to producing a unified and governable society. And then human pride and audacity being what it is, there is a wish among the religion's elite to throw a wider net, to capture the imaginations and loyalties of greater geographic groups; to exponentially spread the theocratic empire. The religion taught a way of life, social, cultural, religious, political; birth-to-death. Some world religions made small alterations in interpretations of the original holy texts to better fit with an emerging and ever-changing societal construct and as times changed so did the religion adjust, for a better fit.
Islam, the kind of Islam practised by millions of people world-wide, did the same, and many countries whose religious tradition came to be signified by Islamic rule accepted a modified model which fit well with their evolving situation, and which was also amenable to practise under a secular form of political governance. But in the cradle of Islam, orthodoxy demanded otherwise and an increasing movement toward a more 'pure' interpretation of Islam arose. Its adherents took to it so zealously that they began to reject all later, more futurist-amenable interpretations seen as disloyal to the original intent expressed in the Koran. The conflicting messages of charity and trust, peace and compassion expressed alongside that of military jihad and geographical conquest to spread Islam underwent a sea change.
Back to the original drawing board. The tribal-based, vengeful, bloodthirsty elements of the religion that reflected a time in history and landscape has been resurrected. The new surge of Islamofascists concern themselves with the idealization of jihad and conquest, the expendibility and slaughter of all those unwilling to accept the faith demanded by Allah in its purest, and very original forms. An ideology-driven, theocratic-political end-game. Puzzling in its purpose and intent to most practising Muslims, and threatening to them as it is to all others, considered infidels.
There is no appeasing fanatics, there are no half-way measures, no counter-measures, no reasonable discourse possible, nor accommodation other than like meeting like determination.
Labels: Political Realities
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, April 08, 2007
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