Comments on: How To Make Sense Of ‘Islam Is A Religion Of Peace’

By: Contemplationist

Contemplationist — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 20:01:09 +0000

Well, to be technically correct, ‘Islam’ means ‘submission’ not ‘peace.’

By: Hadley Bennett

Hadley Bennett — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:50:18 +0000

Never connected the dots on those two before. Very interesting.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:48:46 +0000

“Islam is a religion of peace.” What does that even mean?

It’s actually a play on Arabic words: ‘sl’m means “peace”. Like shalom or salaam.

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:45:44 +0000

The delusion of Religion as Doctrine leads to constant bafflement in the public sphere, particularly in response to the idea that if Christianity has some public policy privilege This is a massively important insight. The reason Progism sees religion this way is that it is genetically descended from forms of Christianity that saw THEIR religion this way. In my Baptist University, we all took a junior level 2-semester battery of "Systematic Theology". (It seemed really sciency at the time.) This is a case of classic Anglophone projection: They are like us, except we disagree on doctrine. No. No. No. No. No. No. The very place of doctrine in their way of life is totally foreign to you. (And this goes for the Prot/Cath debate as well.)

By: Hadley Bennett

Hadley Bennett — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:57:22 +0000

It doesn’t matter if you call it conservative, it doesn’t matter if you call it reactionary. It isn’t universalizable to the west. It’s foreign, and it’ll always be foreign. Progressive Islam is–more often than not–just a cover so that islam can operate silently in the background and subvert the West–see, muslims don’t tend to drive strong distinctions between the degenerate west and the good west.

All must be subservient to Allah, and that’s why Islam and islam must go.

By: CEO of Troll, Inc

CEO of Troll, Inc — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:47:35 +0000

You are assuming that the various non-establishment forms of islam would actually approve of the event at Sydney. Islam, as traditionally understood, is conservative and reactionary (given the bias of this site, this should be a good thing), and therefore is at odds with the form of Islam promoted by the Western establishment, but that translates to most religious Muslims supporting law and order, subservience to authority, and general conservatism, not to supporting terrorism

By: David Grant

David Grant — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:27:22 +0000

“Islam is a religion of peace.” What does that even mean? Does it mean that most Muslims are basically peaceful people? That’s true, but so are most Christians, Hindus, Zoroastrians, and Satanists. You lose points for having an especially violent people; you don’t win any for being much like everyone else in that respect.

All this phrase does is signal that one believes the religious motivations of Muslims in committing atrocities are to be ignored. There is no actual thought behind it; it is simply an item of Progressive doctrine. Islam, because it is not Western, is morally superior to Christianity. That’s all there is to it.