The Scimitar and Scalpel

Giraldus Cambrensis posts a talk from the German publication Welt Online:

You will not find the true face of Islam at the German Conference on Islam. You find it in countries like Pakistan. This Islam turns against all who don't live by the rules of the Koran - against democrats, against atheists and above all, against women. And the world watches in paralysis.

Koran and violence: Do they belong together?

Even if most Muslims do not admit it, terror belongs to the core dogma of Islam, it comes directly from the Koran. It turns against all who do not live and act according to the rules of the Koran, that is democrats, western inspired thinkers and scientists, against agnostics and atheists. And above all, it is directed directly against women. Islam is a tool in the hands of male traditionalists who strive with all might to prevent women from attaining equal rights and to free themselves from the yoke of the centuries.

[The true Islam, like you find it in countries like Pakistan], has started a world war. But the world behaves as if it knows nothing about it. Modern people are aware some conflict exists far away in the "back yards of Turkey". Unfortunately, in our modern networked world there is no "far away backyards" any more. There is only our "front door", and that's the place where things happen. The totalitarian intent of the Taliban and the terror cells is probably worse than that of fascism, it is not the result of a civilizing process. It exists in an environment where even the memory of civilized progress has ceased to exist. Read all …

The writer sees the rough outlines of two aspects of the primitive Sacred encased in cultural Islam: (1) the use of prohibitions to accrue new sacrificial victims for cultural and psychological renewal; and (2) the subjugation of women. One might argue that both these characteristics are post-lapsarian effects of Original Sin; the former observable in all conventional cultures, the latter an outgrowth of Genesis 3,16.

Post-modern Western culture is no better, as Mark Gordon observes recently in his Big Brother, Eh?. Insofar as the West is hellbent in its effort to cast out the effects of the Gospel in history, it has created a void into which is rushing the two-prong expressions of the primitive Sacred, dionysiac paganism and Islam. Feminism has not relieved subjugation of women, only replaced that of traditional societies with a newer, insidious version of it replete with child sacrifice.

It is yet to be seen if the consequential judgment that Israel faced and was warned of by its Prophets will be the fait accompli of the West.