Objective Islam, Subjective Islam
December 20, 2010
You can sort the written and spoken words about Islam into two categories--negative
and apologist. Closer observation shows that the negative camp and the apologist
camp use different logic, as well as come to different conclusions.
An easy way to see this is to go to a reporting source on the web such as a
newspaper that has an article about Islam. Read the comments. The negative comments
tend to be more based on ideas taken from the Islamic source material from the
Koran and Mohammed. Or they quote a jihadi, a poll or a historical fact.
The apologist comments tend to quote a Muslim friend or establishment expert
and attack those who criticize Islam. Critics are called bigots, neo-Nazis,
Islamophobes or some other cruel name. In essence, having negative comments
or judgments about Islam is labeled as evil. The term hate speech is even bantered
about. The critic of Islam is a failed sinner who is shamed and morally condemned.
It is all very personal and very much about feelings.
A good apologist will have a second attack on the problem of, "Is Islam
good or bad"? Islam must be supported by something besides an attack on
the person. There must be with some facts about Islam from other apologists,
mainly Muslim scholars and academic types. These experts are authorities who
can deliver judgment from on high. But, many times they don’t have facts,
only opinions.
If you are to base your arguments on what some expert says, then what "expert"
do you ask? What imam or what professor? If you quote a Jew-hating Saudi imam
found on MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) you fail the criteria
of the expert the apologist needs, because the "expert" must be a
moderate, at all costs. So that fire breathing Palestinian jihadi just won’t
do.
If you turn to Google, you can wind up at sites like ReligionLink,
a website for reporters. This looks very official, very authoritative; surely
you can trust them, but if you are knowledgeable, there are organizations on
the site that are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, such as ISNA, which
should raise a flag to the knowing.
It is interesting to take the ReligionLink site as an example of how the Islamic
information war works. Go to what seems like a very solid choice of experts
recommended on the site: a Naval Academy professor, Dr. Brandon Wheeler. Get
his advice on Sharia law and when you line up what he says against what the
current Muslim Brotherhood position on Sharia in America today, they match exactly.
Dr. Wheeler says that Sharia is vague, not really law, an old idea, very adaptable
and no country really follows Sharia. Move along, there is nothing to see here,
says the apologist professor peddling the Muslim Brotherhood line.
The facts are that as far as the Kafirs is concerned, the Sharia is very clear.
It is also unimportant that Sharia is not an exact analog to our laws. So far
as being an old idea, the Koran and the Sunna are even older and held to be
absolutely true. It is true that no nation uses the Sharia for 100% of its rule,
but the law is so ruinous to women and Kafirs that any application of Sharia
is not humane. And all 57 of the Islamic countries use it to some degree.
If you cannot trust a Naval Academy professor of Islamic Studies, then how do
you evaluate the source of information? How can we know the true nature of Islam?
Are there actual facts that nail everything down?
Islam is supremely logical. Every Muslim agrees that Islam is the doctrine found
in the Koran and the Sunna of Mohammed. (Mohammed is the perfect Muslim and
his words and actions have been recorded in detail.) All of Islam is founded
on Allah and the pattern of Mohammed. Allah is found in the Koran and Mohammed
is found in the Hadith (the Traditions of Mohammed) and the Sira (his biography).
All of the doctrine of Islam is found in the Koran, the Sira and the Hadith
(the Trilogy). If it is in the Trilogy, it is Islam by definition.
The Trilogy is not only an objective source of Islamic doctrine, but it is also
the measure of all statements about Islam. We have an objective measure of experts.
We don’t need to see what institute gave them the authority to speak as
an expert. We need to compare their comments to what is in the Trilogy. If the
comment agrees with Mohammed, it is true. If it disagrees with the Trilogy,
then it is false.
The question is: why even ask the experts? Why not ask Mohammed and Allah and
quote them? Quote the doctrine. Skip the experts and find an objective answer.
The beauty of objective Islam is that you get the same answer no matter who
does the work. The subjective method gives any answer you want. So you ask the
expert who gives the answer you want. Subjective Islam is garbage Islam. Objective
Islam is Islam.
The problem is that no one knows there is objective knowledge about Islam. Everybody
has been lied to by the media, the schools, the religious leaders and all those
who listen to opinions of experts and do not know a single objective fact about
Islam, i.e. doctrine. We have a choice: learn about the Koran and Mohammed or
be the fools listening to a good lie told by "experts".
Bill Warner, Director, Center for the Study of Political Islam
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