Ayaan is our undisputed guide on these topics. She has lived their ramifications. She places their dangers within a western pluralistic value system that is capable of being subverted, but also capable of being protected/restored, if our governments and our politicians think the IB’s stated goals and track record through to the end.
Excellent action items. I will research these topics on each candidate for elections moving forward. I would love to see a list of politicians who share these views.
But my question is - are there really peaceful Muslims who want to separate mosque and state? So far I haven’t seen that. If there is surely they would publicly condemn the excesses and violence of the Brotherhood? And tolerate Muslims who want to leave their religion and embrace Christianity?
In my country we see the rise of Muslim votes lobby groups and they justify that by telling us that there is a Christian lobby group like the Australian Christian Lobby and others. The Muslims pressure their moronic Labor government members to go soft on condemning Hamas and supporting Israel. There are no moderate voices to condemn when the Islamists rejoiced at the 7th October massacre and gathered and chanted, ‘gas the Jews’ ‘f… the Jews’.
Thank you, Ayaan Hirsi Ali for another sane and realistic perspective on radical Islam. I recently became a subscriber and only wish I had done so earlier. Please keep up your great and important work!
Dear me. Have you become so infected with the mind-virus of so-called 'reason' that you think laws are the obvious answer to global problems like the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood or the unstoppable mass migration of humanity? To me, your gaming of language, as every human being does in our need to survive, is simply pandering to popular fears and ideas about an unknown 'they & them,' that 'appear' to be the cause of the feeling that the world is going to hell in a handcart.
How can you believe that this is the best way to deal with ideological problems in the context of your newly discovered faith in the ideology espoused by Jesus, the Christ? Did he not say "love your enemy?" Perhaps, like your friend Jordan Peterson you're rationalist to the point of despising 'utopic' ideology and believe Jesus was just a naive Utopian Day Dreamer, and these days the 'good' practically realistic Christians of the West, know better now?
While experiential wisdom and science's ongoing revelations about the 'unseen' reality within the human body and our 'overwhelmingly' subconscious motivation, suggest that 'self-ignorance' is still the real enemy of humanity and we are profoundly confused about the nature of language and reality. Which is arguably the pragmatic reason for this historically reported utterance: "Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand," (Matthew 13:13).
May I suggest that 'love' is the answer and that people's of faith, whether that faith be predicated on Religion's ideas or Reason's ideas about reality, should consider the way the 'experiential' nature of wisdom trumps all forms of ideology, and Christian's in particular should consider the Nazarene's story as one that is meant to be 'experienced' not just believed.
While the same is no doubt true of other religious faith's when one seeks to go beyond a too 'literal' sense of words and desires an experience of what written words can only 'symbolize' as abstracted forms of reality. But I'm sure you'll carry on gaming language and Grifting well Ayaan, for the power of behavioral 'imitation' is not to be underestimated, as Iain McGilchrist point out, and is arguably matched only by the auto-suggestion power of memory, in the experiential phenomenon Peterson's college John Vervaeke suggests is the way all human beings are, "comprehensively prone to self-deception."
Is that what Jesus was talking about, do you think?
Honest and informative as usual! Thank You Ayaan!
Excellent article. ‘There are none so blind that will not see’…… until it’s too late!
Ayaan is our undisputed guide on these topics. She has lived their ramifications. She places their dangers within a western pluralistic value system that is capable of being subverted, but also capable of being protected/restored, if our governments and our politicians think the IB’s stated goals and track record through to the end.
Excellent action items. I will research these topics on each candidate for elections moving forward. I would love to see a list of politicians who share these views.
Excellent. Useful information.
But my question is - are there really peaceful Muslims who want to separate mosque and state? So far I haven’t seen that. If there is surely they would publicly condemn the excesses and violence of the Brotherhood? And tolerate Muslims who want to leave their religion and embrace Christianity?
In my country we see the rise of Muslim votes lobby groups and they justify that by telling us that there is a Christian lobby group like the Australian Christian Lobby and others. The Muslims pressure their moronic Labor government members to go soft on condemning Hamas and supporting Israel. There are no moderate voices to condemn when the Islamists rejoiced at the 7th October massacre and gathered and chanted, ‘gas the Jews’ ‘f… the Jews’.
Thank you, Ayaan Hirsi Ali for another sane and realistic perspective on radical Islam. I recently became a subscriber and only wish I had done so earlier. Please keep up your great and important work!
Dear me. Have you become so infected with the mind-virus of so-called 'reason' that you think laws are the obvious answer to global problems like the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood or the unstoppable mass migration of humanity? To me, your gaming of language, as every human being does in our need to survive, is simply pandering to popular fears and ideas about an unknown 'they & them,' that 'appear' to be the cause of the feeling that the world is going to hell in a handcart.
How can you believe that this is the best way to deal with ideological problems in the context of your newly discovered faith in the ideology espoused by Jesus, the Christ? Did he not say "love your enemy?" Perhaps, like your friend Jordan Peterson you're rationalist to the point of despising 'utopic' ideology and believe Jesus was just a naive Utopian Day Dreamer, and these days the 'good' practically realistic Christians of the West, know better now?
While experiential wisdom and science's ongoing revelations about the 'unseen' reality within the human body and our 'overwhelmingly' subconscious motivation, suggest that 'self-ignorance' is still the real enemy of humanity and we are profoundly confused about the nature of language and reality. Which is arguably the pragmatic reason for this historically reported utterance: "Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand," (Matthew 13:13).
May I suggest that 'love' is the answer and that people's of faith, whether that faith be predicated on Religion's ideas or Reason's ideas about reality, should consider the way the 'experiential' nature of wisdom trumps all forms of ideology, and Christian's in particular should consider the Nazarene's story as one that is meant to be 'experienced' not just believed.
While the same is no doubt true of other religious faith's when one seeks to go beyond a too 'literal' sense of words and desires an experience of what written words can only 'symbolize' as abstracted forms of reality. But I'm sure you'll carry on gaming language and Grifting well Ayaan, for the power of behavioral 'imitation' is not to be underestimated, as Iain McGilchrist point out, and is arguably matched only by the auto-suggestion power of memory, in the experiential phenomenon Peterson's college John Vervaeke suggests is the way all human beings are, "comprehensively prone to self-deception."
Is that what Jesus was talking about, do you think?
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