Eventually, the sun always shines through

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Sep 27, 2017 at 17:46

Hi, Dhimminomore.

"But the reality is the truth never goes away and it is Islam is a political system not unlike communism and this is what has to be addressed"

You made two good points, in just this sentence.

First of all, it is true that the truth always triumphs in the end, though the lie might cause much damage along the way. Hitler and Goebberls knew you could TEMPORARILY suppress the truth, by shouting it down with a big enough, oft-repeated enough lie. But the truth cannot be utterly wiped outk because the whole universe is built upon it. As a perfect example, we have Hitler and Goebbels both having to commit suicide, and their doctrine is now reviled and ridiculed.

The second point, is a comparison between Islam and Communism. I remember when I first read Marx. I noticed that he did not teach an "academic" study of history and society, wherein one tried to understand it. Instead, he preached the need for violent action to transform it: rabble-rousing, in other words, in place of true academics. Marx's window-smashing, free-speech-denying devotees in Berkeley are true copies of the original.

Islam is similar; and by "Islam", I mean "Qur'an". When I first read that book, I noticed that it was more of a political and military tactical manual, than a book about God. In this, it largely resembled another quasi-"religious" book I carried around in those days, namely, "The Thought of Chairman Mao Tse Tung".

Naziism, Communism and Islam all require a great deal of energy, violent energy, to maintain themselves against the continuing, unrelenting opposition posed against them by truth and reality. Those evil doctrines try to keep fires burning, to enshroud the world with smoke; but eventually, the fires burn out and the sun shines through.

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