On Communism and Islam
February 5, 2006
Rusty Shackelford has a longish post about the similarities between Islam and Communism. He compares Marx with Muhammed and Totalitarianism with Terrorism.
Many of us would like to think that Islam is just another religion. That sentiment comes from a good place. Most Americans want to believe that about our fellow Americans. In fact, I would argue that America has always had a national ecumenical spirit. But such thinking is also ignorant of Islam as it is, and not as it should be. I would like Islam to be just another religion which asks only for the soul of the Muslim and not his political fealty, but that is not the case.
As the vast majority of Muslims will readily admit to you, Islam is not simply a mode of worship, it is a total way of life that demands every aspect of a person’s being. In other words, there is no render unto Ceaser that which is Ceaser’s. There is no assumption of the separation of individual duty to God, and a society’s duty to God. Thus, it proscribes not only what I should do as an individual, but what we should do as a society.
As such, it is not, strictly speaking, a religion. It is also a coherent socio-political system.
The old line the muslims like is:The enemy of my enemy is my friend. This applies to the current situation.I myself believe the communist and the islamofaciast are working together for the demise of this country.The russians are giving the iranians nuclear technology as the chinese are supplying them with weapons to defeat us in iraq/afganistan.The chinese is growing at about 10 to 12% a year and to do this ,it needs oil. They’ve made new deals with the saudis for oil. The communist are using us against us by selling us cheap goods at first and then more essentual products later with the help of our greedy congress to look good in the eyes of the american people. Then they can stay in washington way past their usefulness.