Friday, March 16, 2018

Sarsour, Ashrawi, and Palazzi

Sar Shalom

A popular explanation for Arab and Muslim vitriol against Israel is that Islam, through the Koran and Hadiths, commands such vitriol. However, this explanation fails to explain certain things. To start, consider Linda Sarsour who is secular and only wears a hijab as a matter of cultural identification and because that cultural identification transformed her, as she claims, into a "person of color." Given her religious sensibilities, one would expect such Koranic injunctions and Hadiths to have as much influence on her as Leviticus 11 has on the average American Jew's diet. Yet, Sarsour is as vitriolic against Israel as any imam from Hamas. If she demonstrates a willingness to deviate from religious dictates, why would she be so fastidious to that dictate?

Yet, one could argue that she picks and chooses what aspects of sharia she observes. She might not bind herself with her religion's dictates on permitted and forbidden foods, as a possible example, but she does bind herself to her religion's dictates of holding onto Dar-al-Islam. If that is so, why is Hanan Ashrawi equally vitriolic towards Israel? For those who don't know, Ashrawi is Christian and thus any religious dictate of Islam would have no authority over her.

Yet, one could argue that Ashrawi is motivated by proleptic dhimmitude and thus indirectly influenced by Islamic dictates. However, how does Abdul Palazzi, the leader of Italian Islam, fit the claim that Islam prohibits acceptance of Israel? Palazzi is someone who unambiguously supports Israel, going so far as to interrupt a visit in New Haven in order to join Avi Weiss for a protest at the Palestinian UN Mission, support the Jewish community of Hebron, and support for Jews on the Temple Mount. He is someone who takes any religious requirement of Islam seriously, and indeed writes that Islam requires recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.

I am not going to suggest an alternative theory for vitriol aimed at Israel from the Islamic world because the source of that vitriol is unimportant. Whether this vitriol stems from religious decree, culture, or brainwashing from fake news, all that is important is that it is real and that it is not based on anything that liberals would recognize as a casus belli. However, attributing it to religious dictate advertises that your objection is not to their racism directed at us, but to who they are. Doing that turns away potential allies, and for what gain? If you're not dealing with how to turn people away from opposition to Israel, just ignore their motives.

9 comments:

  1. "this explanation fails to explain certain."
    Certain what? Certain exceptions?

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    1. The items it fails to explain were listed after that. In short, it fails to explain why non-observant Muslims and non-Muslims fall in line with the alleged sharia requirement. Finally, it fails to explain Muslims, included religious authorities, support Israel.

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  2. It's a plan of absolute total unfettered unreasoned resistance to everything. Turn on the TV, open a newspaper. You see it in American politics everyday. The administration could appoint Hillary Clinton herself to lead the FBI and the Supreme Court at the same time and media would scream and pout that its an evil thing to do....and not enough. Muslim and Arab hatred of Jews is a foundational belief. It's a pillar of their entire being. Not even they need to understand why their own hatred exists. The PLO didn't invent the 'Three No's' at the Khartoum Conference. They were merely expressing the normal exchange of what Arab and Muslim though IS. They were explaining who they are, for our benefit not theirs.

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    1. Every single day we see concrete examples of Islam's hate; moral people should condemn it and demand change. Instead,the world makes excuses for the louts.

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  3. you're basically telling us why its bad PR to say the truth about Islam vs. Israel. I understand.

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    1. Are you claiming that Abdul Palazzi is a fiction? Unless he is, any narrative that does not account for him is not the truth.

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  4. Sar Shalom, the Islamic world has not become secularized to the same extent as American secular Jews or Israeli secular Jews. Jews become completely secularizes, but Muslims seem to become only partially secularized.

    One of Islam's beliefs, which is NEVER MENTIONED in America's 100%-pro-Islam mainstream-news-media, is that Muslims are the best and finest people in the world, while Jews are the worst and most evil people in the world.

    When Muslims see that Jews have greater achievements than they do, this shakes their entire belief system and it shakes them emotionally. It is a crisis of faith for them.

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    1. If what you assert is accurate, explain how there are figures like Abdul Palazzi and Maajid Nawaz.

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    2. "When Muslims see that Jews have greater achievements than they do, this shakes their entire belief system and it shakes them emotionally. It is a crisis of faith for them."

      That is true for many of them. The test for whether it is for any individual is not anything in the Koran or Hadith, but each individual's pattern of behavior.

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