“Progressive” Liberalism is Collectivism by another name

Liberals are terrified of the strong individual. The strong individual is everything they are not and (in their own minds at least) cannot ever be. Furthermore, what is the polar opposite of the individual to wit, the collective? In reality, it is but a group of individuals. The concept therefore of the collective being a coherent whole is erroneous at best. Any society which wishes to bury the individual into the collective therefore, is much more about the power of those doing the burying than it is about the welfare of the collective. Both the Soviet Politburo and the Politburo of the People's Republic of China are cases in point. In both instances, a privileged group dominated by a strong man, presumes to decide what is desirable for the teeming masses. America, on the other hand, used to be a country which attempted, by rule of law in concert with small government, to provide equality of opportunity for all individuals but never equality of result. To provide equality of result would require reducing everyone to the lowest common denominator which is precisely what the neo-Marxist community organizer Barack Hussein Obama has attempted to do for the last 7 years. Bernie Sanders (and no doubt Hillary) promise to do the same after 2016. Furthermore, only a secular and strictly godless society can proceed thus. For, who did the Lord Jesus come to save? The collective? Or the individual? The collective en masse cannot make a personal choice to accept Christ. It is the individual who chooses to accept or reject the Salvation offered by Jesus Christ. Knowing this, the advocates of the collective like Obama, must attack Christianity because it’s honoring of the individual and individual choice represents the polar opposite of the evil they are trying to achieve.

Tarek Fatah, ostensibly a brave fighter against that false distinction which is called Radical Islam, but who equivocates about the true nature of mainstream Islam. Taqiyya?

There is much of worth to say about Tarek Fatah; but, one should always take him with a grain of salt. He is indeed a decade’s long fighter against radical Islam (Islamofascism) but he insists that what he imagines to be the 'authentic' religion of Islam, its alleged prophet Mohamed and its Holy Book, the Quran, is a genuine religion and it is distinct from radical Islam. This insistence despite the overwhelming evidence of the essentially political and ideological nature of even so-called mainstream Islam as it continues to pose an existential threat to the entire civilized world. Indeed major Islamic leaders and politicians have contradicted Tarek's schizophrenic view of Islam. Recep Erdogan, Turkey's Prime Minister, said that claims about the distinction between radical Islam and mainstream or moderate Islam are at best erroneous. There is only Islam. Keep in mind that Prime Minister Erdogan is a notorious Islamist but he does not equivocate about the nature of Islam and its ultimate agenda. Likewise, President Al Sisi of Egypt, recently addressed Islamic scholars at Al-Azhar University (the epicenter of Sunni Islam scholarship) and called for a major reform of Islamic sacred (so-called) texts. Among other things, Al Sisi said that the “corpus of [Islamic] texts and ideas that we have sacralised over the centuries” are “antagonizing the entire world”; that it is not “possible that 1.6 billion people [reference to the world’s Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants—that is 7 billion—so that they themselves may live”; and that Egypt (or the Islamic world in its entirety) “is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost—and it is being lost by our own hands.” Tarek however continues to deny the essentially radical and corrosive nature of mainstream Islam despite what is common knowledge in the Islamic world. Much like the “Liar-in-Chief”, Barack Hussein Obama. Do we detect a pattern here? Also, as a committed Leftist, Fatah persists in a schizophrenic worldview. He has criticized the Obama administration on many occasions for their pro-Islamist agenda, on the well documented infection of the Muslim Brotherhood in the White House and their effect on foreign policy and the wording of national security documents; but, then, on the other hand, he supported Obama’s Presidency as well as his re-election. Hello? Methinks that our good friend Tarek doth equivocate. He speaks with a forked-tongue. Taqiyya? As a Canadian voter Tarek votes for the NDP which are often to the left of the U.S. Democrats (if that can be believed) and essentially socialistic in their political agenda. The NDP, like the fatuous Obama administration, are also soft on the Islamists and are more inclined to engage and appease Islamic extremism than to fight against it. In conclusion, if you want to hear some hard facts and some valid insights about the nature of that false distinction called radical Islam, Tarek Fatah can be of assistance, but if you are looking for a completely honest, committed and consistent fighter against that deadly malevolence which is mainstream Islam, its true nature and its endemic agenda to overrun the civilized world and drag us all back into darkness, you had better look elsewhere. http://www.therebel.media/tarek_fatah_this_isn_t_about_shia_vs_sunni