Muslims in the West
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:26 pm
The West is currently destroying the Middle East - and has murdered people there on a genocidal scale - and it's ongoing. In recent history it was the US along with its followers who went into Afghanistan to kill Osama. This bled into Iraq - the war on terror - and other countries followed - Libya - etc. Syria right now is a raging inferno of horror - it is the West (USA) who has designs on totally transforming the Middle East - a continuation of imperialism (which it does to keep itself and its followers in the money and therefore in power).
The 5 countries the West is currently destroying and warring against are the same countries that Trump has banned from the US. Makes sense in a way - the people you are destroying - perhaps the last thing you want is to have them on your home soil. But then of course the West already has people from all over the world living there - this is one aspect that makes it great - it is secular, in that you can, worship who you want. Though must follow the rule of law and respect to a degree the customs and values of the place. To show that you can get on with everyone under the common banner of capitalist consumer society where we are all put in the same boat of getting the best job we can find (today has to mean most money) and wanting a better future for our children - this works better in the US because the US is a powerful ideology itself - rather than just being a nation-state it is first and foremost, an idea. Which being as powerful as it is - enables persons from diverse backgrounds and cultures to assimilate (at least outwardly) under the banner of (for want of a better phrase) the American Dream. The West itself is a beacon of light in terms of being a place where a person might live a possible prosperous life when it is compared to other places on the globe. Though it smashes and destroys elsewhere the West if you can get yourself into it is a better place to be than possibly most.
So as the West wages war (either itself or through third parties) the people of those destroyed war torn countries see the West as a possible place of refuge. To live in the destroyers homeland is safer than being outside it. The great influx of people from the war torn countries of the Middle East and parts of Africa are fleeing, on the whole, for their and their families lives, naturally. This I think is understandable. But in the West the influx of people is seen differently by - for want of simplicity - two major camps: the so-called Left and the so-called Right. In a way both camps are two sides of the same system. A correcting mechanism where one is required to 'correct' the trajectory of the other. So that the system as it stands and goes into the future, is able to continue as strongly as it has - if not stronger - moving forward. In simplistic terms the Left see the influx from a humanitarian position of added diversity, whereas the Right see it as a problem of national identity if not cultural and political existence itself. The Right speak of statistics where in the future, as things continue, the West will be unrecognizable at best and (perhaps somewhat sensationally) under Sharia Law at worst. On this the Right see the Left (liberals) as being blind or blinded by their liberalism or humanity, if we can equate the two. The Left see this position (at worst) as a possible pre-cursor for Fascism and a possible new Third Reich.
So two major sides of the same system are in conflict and the election of Trump as the president to the Superpower USA is a great victory for the Right and (as many would agree) the so-called Far-Right. They have begun to unveil (for all to see) the weaknesses of a once solid and accepted position through attacking so-called Politically Correct thinking, ideas of simulation and diversity (multiculturalism), and attacking culture itself as being both debased and debasing.
We now have, fuelling the fire for both camps (along with re-shaping society itself) - terror attacks at home in the West (and further afield). Since 9/11 - terror attacks in the West have been portrayed to have been carried out by followers (extremist) of Islam or simply that the perpetrators of these atrocities have been Muslim. The narrative behind this though complex could be broken down to the notion of retaliation and revenge. That some (extremist) Muslims would bring the war home.
To be continued...
The 5 countries the West is currently destroying and warring against are the same countries that Trump has banned from the US. Makes sense in a way - the people you are destroying - perhaps the last thing you want is to have them on your home soil. But then of course the West already has people from all over the world living there - this is one aspect that makes it great - it is secular, in that you can, worship who you want. Though must follow the rule of law and respect to a degree the customs and values of the place. To show that you can get on with everyone under the common banner of capitalist consumer society where we are all put in the same boat of getting the best job we can find (today has to mean most money) and wanting a better future for our children - this works better in the US because the US is a powerful ideology itself - rather than just being a nation-state it is first and foremost, an idea. Which being as powerful as it is - enables persons from diverse backgrounds and cultures to assimilate (at least outwardly) under the banner of (for want of a better phrase) the American Dream. The West itself is a beacon of light in terms of being a place where a person might live a possible prosperous life when it is compared to other places on the globe. Though it smashes and destroys elsewhere the West if you can get yourself into it is a better place to be than possibly most.
So as the West wages war (either itself or through third parties) the people of those destroyed war torn countries see the West as a possible place of refuge. To live in the destroyers homeland is safer than being outside it. The great influx of people from the war torn countries of the Middle East and parts of Africa are fleeing, on the whole, for their and their families lives, naturally. This I think is understandable. But in the West the influx of people is seen differently by - for want of simplicity - two major camps: the so-called Left and the so-called Right. In a way both camps are two sides of the same system. A correcting mechanism where one is required to 'correct' the trajectory of the other. So that the system as it stands and goes into the future, is able to continue as strongly as it has - if not stronger - moving forward. In simplistic terms the Left see the influx from a humanitarian position of added diversity, whereas the Right see it as a problem of national identity if not cultural and political existence itself. The Right speak of statistics where in the future, as things continue, the West will be unrecognizable at best and (perhaps somewhat sensationally) under Sharia Law at worst. On this the Right see the Left (liberals) as being blind or blinded by their liberalism or humanity, if we can equate the two. The Left see this position (at worst) as a possible pre-cursor for Fascism and a possible new Third Reich.
So two major sides of the same system are in conflict and the election of Trump as the president to the Superpower USA is a great victory for the Right and (as many would agree) the so-called Far-Right. They have begun to unveil (for all to see) the weaknesses of a once solid and accepted position through attacking so-called Politically Correct thinking, ideas of simulation and diversity (multiculturalism), and attacking culture itself as being both debased and debasing.
We now have, fuelling the fire for both camps (along with re-shaping society itself) - terror attacks at home in the West (and further afield). Since 9/11 - terror attacks in the West have been portrayed to have been carried out by followers (extremist) of Islam or simply that the perpetrators of these atrocities have been Muslim. The narrative behind this though complex could be broken down to the notion of retaliation and revenge. That some (extremist) Muslims would bring the war home.
To be continued...