"Islam is more than a religion. It is a political system."
This statement was made to me by a Syrian student at UT who converted to Islamic Fundamentalism while we were there. He was searching for answers to the failings of his country and the failings of societies throughout his part of the world. Well, someone came along and literally brainwashed him with the belief that the true culture of his society was altered long ago...by...Western influences. He came to believe that his culture was not really inferior, that it contained the answers suppressed for centuries...to the world's problems all along...Islam...more than a religion...a political system! It was as if a light went off in his head that blinded all other thoughts. He reminded me of those who swallow Marxism hook, line, and sinker...in the belief that all of the world's problems could be solved with a proletariat revolution. Only the Islamist Fundamentalists, like other religious fundamentalists, want to go back in time to solve the world's problems, back to the good old days. Islam is a highly evolved theocracy, a political system which rejects secularism and our Constitutional belief in the separation of church and state.
Can Islam evolve and adapt to modern life and democratic government? That is their challenge, but I do not think that it should become America's challenge. Before we accept Muslim people into our country, we must realize that their religion is more than a religion. It is a political system.
This statement was made to me by a Syrian student at UT who converted to Islamic Fundamentalism while we were there. He was searching for answers to the failings of his country and the failings of societies throughout his part of the world. Well, someone came along and literally brainwashed him with the belief that the true culture of his society was altered long ago...by...Western influences. He came to believe that his culture was not really inferior, that it contained the answers suppressed for centuries...to the world's problems all along...Islam...more than a religion...a political system! It was as if a light went off in his head that blinded all other thoughts. He reminded me of those who swallow Marxism hook, line, and sinker...in the belief that all of the world's problems could be solved with a proletariat revolution. Only the Islamist Fundamentalists, like other religious fundamentalists, want to go back in time to solve the world's problems, back to the good old days. Islam is a highly evolved theocracy, a political system which rejects secularism and our Constitutional belief in the separation of church and state.
Can Islam evolve and adapt to modern life and democratic government? That is their challenge, but I do not think that it should become America's challenge. Before we accept Muslim people into our country, we must realize that their religion is more than a religion. It is a political system.
