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Sea Sentry's avatar

Ayan gives us an excellent parting of the islamic curtain for Westerners to be reminded of the dysfunction they have imported from the vast sea of failed Islamic states, whose immigrants to the UK and Western Europe have brought their primitive tribal values and anti-civilization anger in their otherwise sparse luggage.

It won’t take an absolute majority for the influence of Islam to drag Great Britain, the country that gave the world the Magna Carta and so much else, back into the Dark Ages. In fact, the Brits are running out of time. Sweden’s own demographers say that country will be majority Muslim in 100 years.

To paraphrase Von Clausewitz, emigration is war by other means.

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Karen Bernstein's avatar

Please, Ayaan, when you talk about the foundations of Western culture, use the term Judeo-Christian. Please do not be one of those people erasing the Jews from all we have contributed to our shared culture and values. Using the term “Christian “ alone is simply not enough and also not historically correct. 🙏

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Gail VanDerVeer's avatar

Please never stop writing on these important issues! I so admire your courage!

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Brian McKibben's avatar

Thank you, as always, for a carefully written piece about a culture that should be terrifying to everyone in the modern world. The inhumanity in Islam is horrific. All westerners especially should be sympathetic to the plight of Muslim women.

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Eric Roth's avatar

Thank you for lucidly explaining the actual situation with revealing details and poignant comments. At some point, more Westerners will recognize that laws should be universally enforced - and child marriage harms girls - even if they are born into Muslim families.

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David Bethea's avatar

The thing that is so refreshing and enlightening about Ayaan’s pieces is that they explain things calmly and yet forcefully. HBA, polygamy, clannish behavior, sharia — out of all this comes the question, where is the love? Ayaan will be hammered in the left-leaning marketplace of postmodern intellectual discourse for referencing Christianity and the sanctity of motherhood, but she is of course 100% correct: a healthy society protects its women but is also in favor of women’s rights. In terms of what Darwin first defined as sexual selection in the animal world it is the female’s choice/receptivity that shows evolution happening (love). Thank you, Ayaan.

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Hazel Veronica  Pinto Cardozo's avatar

This is excellent Thank You. I too grew up in the Islamic World India Pakistan - Arab Coast East Africa. The UK British Influence did in fact have many accpet the Western Standards for Married women Monogamy and equality of partners, and encouraging education of owmen and their using their talents inside the home and out in the Community. We were happier children and respected all other ethnic peoples as well as Collaborating Allied Goverments.

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Erik F. Storlie's avatar

The violence in Christianity and Islam have their doctrinal roots in the violent and angry god of the Torah— who directed the ancient Hebrew peoples to destroy their enemies. Much complexity here. Bottom line—we must defend at all costs the mostly free world of North America and Europe.

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Thomas F Davis's avatar

This is historically incorrect.

First, the success of so-called Hellenized Jews who saw virtues in the Greco-Roman world while not losing their Judaic practices is evidence enough against this argument - in fact is evidence of a complexity that this comment does not begin to acknowledge.

Second, Christianity prior to the ascent of Islam and after the European conquest of the Islamic world shows little sign of organized violence when compared to the intervening years. Ancient Christianity was fairly tolerant, as seen in Ambrose's excommunication of two Catholic bishops who murdered an Aryan theologian, and his interceding to spare the life of an Aryan sentenced to death in Spain. The same is true with Modern Christianity, though it has on occasion been hijacked by secular violence (render wrongly to Caesar, etc). No, it seems that most historical violence by Christians has been perpetrated because they adopted Islamic methods and reasoning while under jihadist pressures.

And remember, self-defense is often justified, whether by Jews against oppressive Romans, Christians and others against Fascists and Communists, or just about everybody against Muslims.

Yes, let's defend the freedom of the West that Christianity bequeathed us.

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James Hawley's avatar

I cannot possibly agree with the writer’s assertion regarding the absolute requirement of violence in either faith. I acknowledge the utilization of violence by leaders of both religions but suggest that

The doctrines have been abused to enable some leaders to prevail for a time.

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James Hawley's avatar

These messages, from this thoughtful writer who has bridged several cultures (religious, Middle Eastern and language), must be read widely; thus, they must be republished ( with permission) by someone whose reputation is more recognized.

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Sea Sentry's avatar

You underestimate the author's reputation and reknown.

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Brian McKibben's avatar

I'm wondering if you can refute or clarify a phrase that I have seen more than once in writings about Islam. It's something like "all non-muslims must die." That sounds insane, possibly just yellow journalism for specific audiences. But the history of countries in the Middle East, especially in relations with Israel seems to reflect something like that sentiment.

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Emilia Vanderwerf's avatar

Ayaan, I'd be curious to hear what you think about Andrew Yang's Forward Party. I was very excited about the Forward Party a few years ago, with their hopes of bringing open primaries & ranked-choice voting to the US. The goal is to move the parties from the extreme back to the middle. Likely, this system would result in a multi-party system.

Now when I see Muslims creating their own party, I think about the fact that it is advantageous to have a 2-party system where a "Muslim party" wouldn't have much voice. But yet, if the democratic party starts catering to the Muslim voting base, it could be all the more disastrous.

My other comment to this piece is: what do we do about the Islamization of politics? I know you are writing Restoration to address that, but please start pelting us with action items! :) Maybe we need to have more babies. Maybe we need to start giving more money to our churches. Maybe we need to support AHA Foundation, Free Hearts Free Minds, or other foundations that help Muslim free thinkers.

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Richard Dawson's avatar

Thanks so much for your courage and clarity. It is so refreshing.

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MD's avatar
Oct 7Edited

In vertebrates, and most higher invertebrates, the females are the organisms which generate large sessile haploid gametes (eggs). These are specialized for accumulation and storage of materials and energy needed for the growing the fertilized embryo.

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Erik F. Storlie's avatar

Your knowledge of this long history is deeper than mine. Nevertheless, Jehovah in the Torah is a jealous God, ready to destroy any who worship other Gods. Further, he commands the destruction of Jericho in Joshua V-VI and all therein except Rahab and her family, for she had hidden the spies who entered the city. All others were killed, along with the livestock, although God did insist that the gold and precious metals be kept. I see a root of the violence of the Crusades and conversion by the sword of Islam in God's demand that Abraham sacrifice his own son--which he will do to prove his fealty. Yes, God spares Issac, but the message is clear. If God commands killing, the faithful must and will do it.

Edward Conze, a scholar of Indian Buddhism, argued that the constant religious wars in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (the Abrahamic religions), came from the core demand that "my" God alone must be worshiped--and infidels punished. Conze suggested that the wars in Asia were wars of territory and conquest, but not often rooted in concern for the "true" God. Buddhism arose in India and died away--not through persecution but because a believer was welcome to add the Buddha to his or her shrine. Yes, in this long history, there were periods of both Christian and Islamic toleration. The Jews were perhaps tolerant in historical time because they were overwhelmed and marginalized by the Greeks, Romans, Christians, and Muslims.

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Daniel J. Arbess's avatar

Finish the thought please: Where does Christianity come from? Encourage you to take some time studying Torah (the “Old Testament”) and its history of Rabbinical interpretation (Talmud).

We are all children of the same God and patriarchs/matriarchs. People and power politics have driven us apart: Christians believe Jesus is the messiah; Jews don’t know. Mohammed @ Medina in 7th C, AD (3,000 years after Moses received the Torah at Mt. Sinai), wrote the book on violent coercion to Islam (“lesser jihad”) and much else that you have documented.

We will all find out when the redemptive process that seems to have started with the present world chaos progresses further. Humankind now has access to the knowledge, technical capacity, and abundant resources to feed, house and extend the lifespan of everyone on the planet. We may soon face a challenge that might make it imperative to transcend our failing politics, learn to share with justice and grace.

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