I feel ya, bro. And if we didn't have modern tech we would not even know about it. It is probably better to know, because if you don't:
Then maybe, one nice morning......what is all that dust, on the dawn horizon? What are those
Green Banners, coming at us, with the sun in our eyes? What are they shouting? Alllaaaakk..wah?
Yeah, it happens....this week in fact. And they did know it was coming. And they are Muslims, just not Sunni Crazy. They probably thought they were safe. But, Chop chop. Damn extremists.
It isn't about religion. This is like the ancient Church of Rome, deciding that 9/10s of its own members worldwide should be burned at the Stake. OK? Just how does that work, exactly?
It takes power, like....Inquisition, or Sharia Court. Madness, not Religion.
Will someone tell me where the heart of Islam is? Never mind.
So, let's not get mixed up here about the problem set. Let's stick with the old Church of Rome
for a minute. Now, we know, that was a war cult, that said the Jews murdered God on Earth. (don't humans seem stupid?)
And it put out Missions of Jesuits and Dominicans etc. And it got pretty ugly at times. No Doubt. And there is no way anyone could call the Old Popish Faith a Plural Religion. Nor could you leave it without being killed. If you were excommunicated, you were as good as hog food, no more.
It was spread by the sword and Jews were taxed for protection, same as Islam. But, like the opposite of this modern Islam situation, not many Protestants, at first, right? The keepers of Real Islam are very pissed off about 9/10s of the flock being Moderate and embracing Secular govt and the Decadent West, etc.
So, not a tiny splinter of new thinking like Protestants were, it is most of Muslims that are are appalled by the tiny Center. But, here is the point. The center of Islam is the Wasab Sect in Mecca. They look out at this world and see most of their Billion strong Sunni, have lost touch with what they think is True Islam. Well, guess what? It is True Islam, but, now it is a small but vicious Priesthood. Yet, Sunni Islam is what Mecca says it is.
Of course, the Church was not Plural until much blood was shed, and finally we have some measure of peace, still shaky, in a few places, between Protestants and Catholics.
There were no such thing as Catholics either, see? It was the Church of Christ's Vicar on Earth the Holy Roman See, anointed as our Humble Pope. (not humble) against tiny bands of thinkers under Luther, or Calvin, Lasky or Knox. Get it? Now Wasab is a tiny band that thinks it can still call the shots. And it has been doing a pretty good job of annoying the entire Planet for the last 1000+ years.
So? Who gets the Brand of Islam? That what's at stake. Who claims the Legacy of the Religion of Islam, if it slips from the Wasab? Who gets to claim what is Sunni Muslim, if not Mecca. How can Sunni split the Baby and still be Sunni and still be Islam, with Mecca, but Plural and Peaceful? Or what is it without Mecca? That is the conflict, as I see it.
Basically, Obama is opening trying to steal the brand name from the honchos in Mecca.
Bold stuff. Thanks Obama.
"Keep your head. Keep your head." Grace Slick.