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Anonymous Fri Oct 30 22:22:17 2020 No.16688445 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone here read Roger Scruton's, "The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat"?

>Organizations like Hamas and the Islamic Jihad take their inspiration from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hizbullah. They do not work through diplomacy or negotiation, but through violence, and suicide bombings are now their principal device. In these circumstances it is almost impossible for Israel to form a coherent policy towards the Palestinians.

>If we see the Palestinian conflict in this way, we shall be led to reject the currently fashionable view that the terrorist threat to America comes from America’s support for Israel. On the contrary. It is Israel’s relation to America that makes Israel the target of militant Islam.

In his book "The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat", the famous trad philosopher Sir Roger Scruton asserts Islam is fundamentally incompatible with western values and their hatred of freedom is what has triggered their jihad against America. For example he says it is completely opposed to freedom of speech which we regard as a fundamental human right, he gives pornography as an example. He also says Sharia does not recognize corporate personhood, something very important in the western legal tradition because it allowed for the separation of church and state

In How to be a Conservative, he talks about how conservatism recognizes the nation rather than religion is the ultimate identity and the state rather than church the ultimate arbitrator, whereas Islam is antagonistic to western values because it rejects these important legacies of the Enlightenment.

The question is, is he right?

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