The Party of Knowledge and the Party of Ignorance
January 14, 2011
There is a false dichotomy about Islam. Some think that only conservatives
are critical about Islam and the liberal/progressives/Democrats/leftists are
supportive of Islam. But there are very conservative Christians who admire Islam
and stand up for it. There are left-of-center types who abhor Islam because
of its doctrine and treatment of women. There are people from both camps who
support and condemn Islam.
Islam has little to do with left/right and liberal/conservative split. Islam
is another axis and does not share the normal political divisions. Now it is
true that the Democrats are the current benefit of Islamic support, but during
Bush’s first election, Muslims in Florida claimed it was their support
that tipped the election to Bush. Muslims have voted for both parties.
Although there are more conservatives who are critical of Islam than liberals,
the correlation is not so strong as to be useful. There is another political
axis that predicts whether someone supports or criticizes Political Islam. That
axis is knowledge, knowledge about the doctrine and history of Political Islam.
Whether a Kafir (non-Muslim) supports or criticizes Islam is not classical
left/right politics, but knowledge. There are two separate Kafir parties—the
Party of Knowledge and the Party of Ignorance.
The Party of Knowledge has learned about the political doctrine and political
history of Islam and knows about words such as jihad, Sunna, dhimmi and Kafir.
Members of the Party of Knowledge know that the Koran is a dualistic document
and contains "good" and "bad" verses that are both true.
The Party of Knowledge also knows that the biggest key to understanding Islam
is knowing Mohammed, not the Allah of the Koran.
The Party of Ignorance draws its arguments from what Muslims say about Islam.
They use the voice of Muslims to repeat apologies for Islam. The Party of Ignorance
is always attacking the members of the Party of Knowledge with insults, put
downs, mocking tones and allusions to the Party of Knowledge being bigots and
hate-speechers. In short, the Party of Ignorance repeats what Muslims say and
uses personal attacks against the members of the Party of Knowledge. Knowledge
is evil; ignorance is good.
The true foundation of the Party of Ignorance is that they absolutely refuse
to read any of the biography of Mohammed, the Sira, nor his traditions, the
Hadith. The Party of Ignorance holds the Koran in high esteem, but no one in
the Party of Ignorance has any understanding of it. Since it is impenetrable
it must be profound. Since it is not understood, it can mean anything you want
to project onto it.
What are we to call the members of these two parties? Derivative names such
as Knowers and Know-nothings suggest themselves, but there is already a classical
set of names taken from Islamic doctrine. Members of the Party of Knowledge
are Kafirs and members of the Party of Ignorance are dhimmis. Naturally the
Kafirs know who they are and the dhimmis have not clue as to what their name
means. Poetic justice?
A dhimmi is a creature created by Mohammed when he subjugated the Jews of Khaybar.
Dhimmis can live under Sharia law, because they have agreed to never publicly
oppose Islam and practice their beliefs in private. Today, the name dhimmi refers
to an uncritical apologist of Islam.
How does this play out in real life? Here is the language of the Kafirs: Koran,
Sira, Hadith, and Sharia. Their language uses terms like Sunna and abrogation.
Kafirs use details about the history of jihad and the dhimmi.
Dhimmis quote a Muslim or an apologist professor. But the favorite dhimmi talk
is about how Kafirs are stupid and evil. Dhimmis always move away from the subject
of Islam as soon as possible and start deprecating/trashing Christians and Western
culture. Dhimmis tend to never use technical words such as jihad, but use words
such as terrorist. Just as soon a terrorist is mentioned, then comes the example
of that Christian terrorist, Timothy McVey. Of course, he was a self-avowed
atheist, but that matters little to a dhimmi. The only Islamic history the dhimmi
knows is a censored version of the Crusades and the fabricated Golden Age of
Islam.
Analytic thought brings up the question of a Muslim being in the Party of Knowledge.
There are two types of people in the Party of Knowledge—Kafir and Muslim.
How do we distinguish them from each other? Simple, how does a Muslim and a
Kafir react to Kafir suffering? One fine day, Mohammed sat beside his 12 year
old wife and watched as jihadist beheaded 800 male Jews. For a Muslim, this
was as day of joy and triumph. The Kafir sees the deaths of 800 Kafir Jews as
a war crime and an act of evil.
There are two types of people in the Party of Knowledge, but only one kind
of person in the Party of Ignorance. If you are confused, then you are a member
of the Party of Ignorance.
Bill Warner, Director, Center for the Study of Political Islam
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