How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda
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Andrew C McCarthy. How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda
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Trapped in the Western progressive’s hedonistic infatuation with personal fulfillment, today’s opinion elites miss the essence of Islam. It is a corporatist doctrine, determined to control the individual’s life down to its granular details not for his sake but for the flourishing of the ummah, the notional Islamic Nation. In fact, as Islamists beguile Western intellectuals with odes to “freedom” and “democracy,” it is critical to remember that Islam and the West proceed from different assumptions. The Islamic concept of freedom is nearly the opposite of ours, connoting perfect submission to Allah. When Islamists laud freedom, that is what they mean. The late Sayyid Qutb, radical Islam’s most consequential modern theorist, stated the matter this way: “Islam began by freeing the human conscience from servitude to anyone except Allah, and from submission to any save Him.” (Emphasis added.) Similarly, when Islamists praise democracy, they refer not to a culture of governance for self-determining people but to a potential means of imposing sharia by popular vote.
In Islamist ideology, the ummah thrives when the state enforces sharia, the perfect, immutable system personally bequeathed by Allah for the government of all creation. Understood this way, the apologists are quite correct in maintaining that jihad need not involve improvised explosive devices and hijacked jumbo jets. Whether pursued by forcible or nonforcible methods, jihad is always and everywhere the mission to implement, spread, and defend the advance of sharia.
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