I have spent a lot of time digesting the Paris news and wondering why the Left seems to be utterly incapable of seeing the true motivations of extremist Muslims.
It’s not like the jihadists don’t tell us exactly why they’re cutting off heads, even as they’re cutting off heads. It’s not like their holy books are not available on-line or like they and their opponents have not published numerous blogs, books, and movies about why they do these awful things.
So how is it that allegedly intelligent people can be so persistently obtuse that they could actually refer to terrorist attacks as “workplace violence” and “man-caused disasters”?
I saw “Not Without My Daughter” then read the book back in 1991. There was nothing in there about poverty or discrimination or unemployment or a lack of education driving this Muslim family to embrace jihad. There was only the story of an Iranian-born doctor who threw away his American medical practice and ultimately lost his family, so he could join his radicalized family back in the Ayatollah’s glorious new Iran.
Today I read a blog that showed me the reason Obama and co. are so damn dumb about ISIS.
What motivates ISIS and its supporters is a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately bringing about the apocalypse.
Actually, a better word than “apocalypse” would be “eschaton,” the end of the present age and the ushering in of what they consider to be the reign of Allah.
Since the secular westerners no longer believes in the Christian eschaton, they cannot even begin to understand the Islamic one.
[I have paraphrased to avoid a confusing wealth of ellipses and brackets. You can read the full article @ http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/28475%5D
Okay … now I get it.
polination.blog 
Exactly.
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