Andrew Sullivan: I think it’s time to a…
I think it’s time to acknowledge what we are increasingly learning: the base of the GOP – aided and abetted by what’s left of their elites – want a religious war abroad and at home not on Jihadism, but on Islam itself. And a vote for the GOP is a vote for this agenda. It is a vote for global warfare and domestic division.
shams is discussing.
shams 9:07 am on August 12, 2010 Permalink
wallah, Abu….both the Bush Doctrine and COIN (COIN is the Bush Doctrine scaled down for villages) are just attempts to proselytize judeoxian/western culture in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bush’s “war on terror” was never anything but a war on Islam.
Unfortunately for the Bushites, al-Islam has been immunized against xian proselytization.
Do you understand why the Bush Doctrine and COIN can never work?
Because of evolutionary theory of games (Maynard-Smith’s book on this is great.)
Consider the evolution of the big three monotheistic religions, and how they represent CSSs (culturally stable strategies).
Christianity evolved from Judaism, and evolved proselytizing as a method of increasing reps over being born jewish. Islam evolved from both Judaism and Christianity, and evolved defenses against christian proselytization, included the sacred texts of the older religions, and absorbed the congregants of the two older religions with the doctrine of People of the Book and the doctrine that all humans are born muslim. thus removing the exclusivity of jewish genetic lineage or the necessity of being “saved” by accepting christ.
But of the three, Islam is the most recent, and has evolved counter strategies to the original jewish and christian reproductive and conversion strategies.
So Islam is more progressive in that it is more inclusive.
Christianity evolved proselytization to convert jews and pagans, and then islam evolved to be proselytization proof.
That is another reason interfaith is very difficult between xians and muslims……christianity evolved to proselytize, and Islam evolved to be proselytization proof.
shams 9:11 am on August 12, 2010 Permalink
short version– when muslims are empowered to vote, they will vote for shariah.
Ali Eteraz told me that before i ever reverted.