By Paul Weiser
Islam, as presently practiced, is incompatible with the peace of the civilized world. Civilization is thus bound to break Islam of its dangerous characteristics - an operation for which it has several instruments, some kinder than others.
We could just kill millions of the worst Muslims and leave the rest living in ruins. This worked with Japan and Germany, which were viciously fanatical in much the same way. But science, which provides ballistic missiles and thermonuclear warheads, likewise places subtler but more devastating tools to hand - against which Islam hasn’t even a martyr’s defense.
We have the “higher criticism,” close textual analysis under which Christianity once wilted and seemed to shrink - the microscope of archaeology and comparative religion. Our Jesus stood revealed as mere man, who mixed Essene mysticism with a respectable form of mythical deities having their way with mortal women - whose followers, not He, generated most of the doctrines in political give-and-take. It’s all in the texts, even the modern ones (though such artifacts as the Dead Sea Scrolls assist) - all you need do is analyze.
For Islam the Koranic texts are available, as is tradition and the annals. Far less than Christianity can it bear analysis, for Mohammed was transparently a synthesizer and gangster with no inspiration of his own - only a run of warlord’s luck that took his followers to the gates of Vienna and the Pyrenees (as well as, disastrously for the inhabitants, into Africa).
Christianity survives the higher criticism by adapting and citing its good works; Islam must adapt or die, for its medieval good works are past. The West must perform the analysis and publish it to the Prophet’s followers - soon to be reduced, in ridicule, to laughingstock status with snake-handlers and Holy Rollers. They’ve earned it.
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