When Love Dies

The Consequences of Perverse Doctrines 

If ever the wicked underbelly of Islam is being exposed to adherents of that religion it is now.  They have witnessed decades of war between Islamic nations.  They have beheld the fanaticism and murderous acts of terrorist suicidal jihadis. More recently they have beheld the depredations of ISIS--its cruelty, bloodthirstiness, and its fervent commitment to raping and killing of innocents as a religious duty.  And now they are witnessing the cold indifference of Islamic nations to Islamic refugees.

Allah is a monistic god.  The One is ultimate.  And therefore there is only one way, one view, one perspective.  True followers of Allah cannot escape the constricts of this monism.  There are not two authorities in a family (father and mother) but one only.  There are not two equal sexes in the human race.  There is the male, who dominates all else in family life.  Male children carry more authority as they grow than mothers.

Another a consequence of monism within Islam is that theological and religious difference are intolerable.
  The "oneness" of Allah means that only one view can be right: Shi'ite and Sunni and other sects will be at ideological war, and given half a chance, actual war.  Those outside the one-true-sect are not regarded as true Muslims but apostates.  And, according to Muhammad's rendition of Allah's commands, they must be killed.

Sectarian wars in amongst Islamic sects and nations in the Middle East has resulted in displacement of people and much suffering.  The sufferers--Islamic believers all--could be expected to seek refuge in surrounding Islamic nations.  Not so.  They fail to be consistent with the One Way.  Apostates are not welcome.  Islam's brotherly love extends only to those within one's sectarian tent.  The Islamic "ummah" (the international, global Islamic community) is a fiction.


The Washington Post reports:

The world has been transfixed in recent weeks by the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, an influx of migrants unprecedented since World War II. Their plight was chillingly highlighted on Wednesday in the image of a drowned Syrian toddler, his lifeless body lying alone on a Turkish beach.

A fair amount of attention has fallen on the failure of many Western governments to adequately address the burden on Syria's neighboring countries, which are struggling to host the brunt of the roughly 4 million Syrians forced out of the country by its civil war.

Some European countries have been criticized for offering sanctuary only to a small number of refugees, or for discriminating between Muslims and Christians. There's also been a good deal of continental hand-wringing over the general dysfunction of Europe's systems for migration and asylum.

Less ire, though, has been directed at another set of stakeholders who almost certainly should be doing more: Saudi Arabia and the wealthy Arab states along the Persian Gulf.

As Amnesty International recently pointed out, the "six Gulf countries -- Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain -- have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees." This claim was echoed by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, on Twitter:

Kenneth Roth ✔ @KenRoth

Guess how many of these Syrian refugees Saudi Arabia & other Gulf states offered to take? 0

Kenneth RothVerified account ‏@KenRoth

The way that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states aid Syrian refugees: 

When you worship a monistic god, sectarian beliefs are ultimate; competing sects are an anathema.  Love is constrained to those who are comply, and even then there are "issues".  Behold the face of Islam.

Most violence against Muslims is perpetrated by fellow Muslims.  It will continue to be the case.  There are theological reasons why this is so.