You speak to a fundamental problem: understanding the peculiar, subterranean doctrines that inform media and elite views. Partisans adopt a language unfamiliar to middle class Americans, and bludgeon us with subversive concepts difficult to grasp. It is a language of denunciation and repudiation that is so new, and so contrary to common values, that we fail to grasp what is happening. Please keep excavating and explaining it.
“…….I have put the word emerge in bold because I think that Islamic movements as we see them today in places like Belgium will end up purging those who joined them and become autonomous. Obviously…….”
Absolutely agree.
Islam and the Left initially cooperate because they share separate but operationally compatible Globalist visions, expressed in doctrinal terms.
Unfortunately, when access to the levers of power have been obtained through such a cooperation Sharia will supervene and the ideological niceties of the Left will be eliminated, along with the membership.
In the UK the Labour Party is feeling the harsh reality of this process as having served their purpose the Moslem block vote is being moved to the next bunch of ‘useful idiots’, the Green Party.
This also ties in with the Author’s perception that Global rather that domestic issues will in future drive political discourse. The fact Moslem MP’s were elected to the British Parliament at the last general election on a Gaza ticket seems to confirm that view.
Thank you, you are an execptional scholar! Coming yourself from a Third-World country, you understand so many phenomenoms mosly ignored by Amercan (for instance the "intellectual' connection between Obama and Frantz Fanon!l)
In my opinion, you are really trying to understand what has happened over the past forty years, what that has led to, what the consequences for the future are, and you dare to write about it. Consider that a great compliment! Samuel Huntington writes about the clash of civilizations. I think that the Islamic world, with its theocratic vision, and the Western Christian world clash because in the Christian Western world, God and man are equal to one another. We have separated church and state. In the Islamic world, God stands above everything and man is nothing. You say it yourself with 'Islamism in its doctrinal core demands a fully ordered society ruled by religious law — Sharia'. Perhaps I am being a bit too black and white, hmm... but still.
Added to this is the fact that in Western Christian culture, driven by its convictions, the idea has taken hold over the past fifty years that it must permanently atone for what its forefathers did in the past against – or, if you will, in – that Third World. Although many people in the West no longer adhere to the Christian faith, in my opinion, it is still deeply rooted in Western culture. In other words, Christian dogmas have been replaced by other dogmas. From the perspective of Western Christian culture, you have to believe in something, after all. Let it be the climate problem, or that we must help the whole world, or whatever else instead of ourselves.
I love your articles. Best new voice on the current state of affairs I've read. I think you're missing something here in re: U.S. citizens, of which I am one. I defer to your compelling understanding of these intellectual trends (colonialism, de-colonialism, secularism, laicite, islamism... etc.) and on the different projects various actors and provocateurs worldwide are undertaking to gain traction in support of whatever combo-platter of these they want to inflict on the rest of us (or us on them). You're also dead right, and even understate, the degree to which US universities are totally degraded and overtaken with this divisive and unproductive nonsense.
You're missing something though, and some of my colleagues here in the comments as well, about the great unwashed here in the US here in the US who elected Trump to break things and prosecute people: the average US citizen
1) wants the government to leave it alone, would be thrilled to have it be irrelevant in their daily lives,
2) cares abstractly about other countries and their citizens, but would be thrilled to have them be irrelevant in their daily lives (as they mostly are)
3) doesn't care about the religions of others, including their belief in Allah, Christ or the flying Spaghetti Monster, and if pressed by others about their passions would say, "Good for you, but shut the &#!k up about it," only more nicely than that, because their mothers would be mad at them for talking that way (including my own)
3) is not remotely antisemitic, to the extent that they probably don't even know that they know a few people who are Jewish, even among their friends
4) is abstractly uneasy about zealous Islamism and all other isms because the off color definition of "asshole" is someone who thinks they know better what others should do and wants to do something about it (primarily because the average US citizen does respect others, regardless of sex, race, place of origin, sexual orientation or religion (but keep those last two to yourself, thanks).
The big miss though, in your article and in some of the comments, is the US government and associated corrupt institutions are totally transactional. It's all about access to the power of the purse, full stop. Philosphy and morality's got nothing to do with it. To the US government, all the pettifoggery about philosophies and "isms" you mention are talking points to frighten, divide and distract so that the dealer can palm the pot in the middle of the table (the US economy). Thank god the US really isn't a country: it's a republic, and the folks out here want to keep it that way. If Trump falters in breaking things, the republic will falter, and the US may well be lost to the purely mercantile urges of its corrupt institutions. That would be bad for US citizens and for the world, regardless of whoever else thinks they are on first for whatever philosophical reason.
You say what you see, and you say it well.
You speak to a fundamental problem: understanding the peculiar, subterranean doctrines that inform media and elite views. Partisans adopt a language unfamiliar to middle class Americans, and bludgeon us with subversive concepts difficult to grasp. It is a language of denunciation and repudiation that is so new, and so contrary to common values, that we fail to grasp what is happening. Please keep excavating and explaining it.
“…….I have put the word emerge in bold because I think that Islamic movements as we see them today in places like Belgium will end up purging those who joined them and become autonomous. Obviously…….”
Absolutely agree.
Islam and the Left initially cooperate because they share separate but operationally compatible Globalist visions, expressed in doctrinal terms.
Unfortunately, when access to the levers of power have been obtained through such a cooperation Sharia will supervene and the ideological niceties of the Left will be eliminated, along with the membership.
In the UK the Labour Party is feeling the harsh reality of this process as having served their purpose the Moslem block vote is being moved to the next bunch of ‘useful idiots’, the Green Party.
This also ties in with the Author’s perception that Global rather that domestic issues will in future drive political discourse. The fact Moslem MP’s were elected to the British Parliament at the last general election on a Gaza ticket seems to confirm that view.
Thank you, you are an execptional scholar! Coming yourself from a Third-World country, you understand so many phenomenoms mosly ignored by Amercan (for instance the "intellectual' connection between Obama and Frantz Fanon!l)
A superb article! I especially enjoyed the section "Third Worldism in the US Context" and the quote from "L'Opium des intellectuels".
In my opinion, you are really trying to understand what has happened over the past forty years, what that has led to, what the consequences for the future are, and you dare to write about it. Consider that a great compliment! Samuel Huntington writes about the clash of civilizations. I think that the Islamic world, with its theocratic vision, and the Western Christian world clash because in the Christian Western world, God and man are equal to one another. We have separated church and state. In the Islamic world, God stands above everything and man is nothing. You say it yourself with 'Islamism in its doctrinal core demands a fully ordered society ruled by religious law — Sharia'. Perhaps I am being a bit too black and white, hmm... but still.
Added to this is the fact that in Western Christian culture, driven by its convictions, the idea has taken hold over the past fifty years that it must permanently atone for what its forefathers did in the past against – or, if you will, in – that Third World. Although many people in the West no longer adhere to the Christian faith, in my opinion, it is still deeply rooted in Western culture. In other words, Christian dogmas have been replaced by other dogmas. From the perspective of Western Christian culture, you have to believe in something, after all. Let it be the climate problem, or that we must help the whole world, or whatever else instead of ourselves.
I love your articles. Best new voice on the current state of affairs I've read. I think you're missing something here in re: U.S. citizens, of which I am one. I defer to your compelling understanding of these intellectual trends (colonialism, de-colonialism, secularism, laicite, islamism... etc.) and on the different projects various actors and provocateurs worldwide are undertaking to gain traction in support of whatever combo-platter of these they want to inflict on the rest of us (or us on them). You're also dead right, and even understate, the degree to which US universities are totally degraded and overtaken with this divisive and unproductive nonsense.
You're missing something though, and some of my colleagues here in the comments as well, about the great unwashed here in the US here in the US who elected Trump to break things and prosecute people: the average US citizen
1) wants the government to leave it alone, would be thrilled to have it be irrelevant in their daily lives,
2) cares abstractly about other countries and their citizens, but would be thrilled to have them be irrelevant in their daily lives (as they mostly are)
3) doesn't care about the religions of others, including their belief in Allah, Christ or the flying Spaghetti Monster, and if pressed by others about their passions would say, "Good for you, but shut the &#!k up about it," only more nicely than that, because their mothers would be mad at them for talking that way (including my own)
3) is not remotely antisemitic, to the extent that they probably don't even know that they know a few people who are Jewish, even among their friends
4) is abstractly uneasy about zealous Islamism and all other isms because the off color definition of "asshole" is someone who thinks they know better what others should do and wants to do something about it (primarily because the average US citizen does respect others, regardless of sex, race, place of origin, sexual orientation or religion (but keep those last two to yourself, thanks).
The big miss though, in your article and in some of the comments, is the US government and associated corrupt institutions are totally transactional. It's all about access to the power of the purse, full stop. Philosphy and morality's got nothing to do with it. To the US government, all the pettifoggery about philosophies and "isms" you mention are talking points to frighten, divide and distract so that the dealer can palm the pot in the middle of the table (the US economy). Thank god the US really isn't a country: it's a republic, and the folks out here want to keep it that way. If Trump falters in breaking things, the republic will falter, and the US may well be lost to the purely mercantile urges of its corrupt institutions. That would be bad for US citizens and for the world, regardless of whoever else thinks they are on first for whatever philosophical reason.
You have to try really hard to make the guy who would be a moderate in the developed world into a boogeyman 😂