The Islamic Way To Do Everything

Submitted by Marci (United States), Sep 26, 2007 at 13:00

Kuran concludes that "the significance of Islamic economics lies not in the economy but in identity and religion." I would suggest that it is something more than that, something that does not reinforce identity and religion, but rather results from the hatreds that identity and religion promote. Islamic economic theory, like that of National Socialism in Germany is not based on any known principals, but rather is concocted from whole cloth and cloaked in mysticism and occult semantics. It stems from a desperate repudiation of the methods of those they hate and promoted with deadly zeal, even if it means disaster.

Case in point: German science--and most academic pursuits--was wholly compromised by the shared hatred of the Jew; consequently entire swaths of thought were removed from the curricula if they were suspected to be the product of Jewish thought. Most notably, relativity was eschewed as the evil lies of the Jew, Einstein. "Jewish science," "Jewish philosophy," and "Jewish music and art," were forbidden.

These prohibitions did little to strengthen Nazi identity or philosophy; rather, they were tantamount to cutting one's nose to spite the face. German hatred of Jews ran so strongly that brilliant scholars and artists willingly abandoned what the Nazis said was Jewish. So too, Islam abandons what the Mullahs say are products of the Jewish and Christian world....not because they want to strengthen Islamic identity or Islam itself, but because underlying all of Islam is a profound and enduring hatred for Jews and Christians and the modern world those two religions help create.

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