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ISIS and the crass materialism of the Left

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Did you know ISIS is a victim?

This may surprise you.

According to Barack Obama in the op-ed below, ISIS is composed of oppressed masses pushed and pulled by socio-economic forces beyond their control. These socio-economic forces according to Obama, must be addressed with well-run government programs and a voice in government.

Barack Obama, LA Times op-ed 17 Feb, 2015:

Governments that deny human rights play into the hands of extremists who claim that violence is the only way to achieve change. Efforts to counter violent extremism will only succeed if citizens can address legitimate grievances through the democratic process and express themselves through strong civil societies. Those efforts must be matched by economic, educational and entrepreneurial development so people have hope for a life of dignity.
John Kerry, WSJ op-ed Feb 19, 2015:

Eliminating the terrorists of today with force will not guarantee protection from the terrorists of tomorrow. We have to transform the environments that give birth to these movements. We have to devote ourselves not just to combating violent extremism, but to preventing it. This means building alternatives that are credible and visible to the populations where terrorists seek to thrive.

This is a prescription not to defeat ISIS but to institutionalize it as a organization or state in the politics of the Mid-East.

Obama's plan is LBJ's Great Society program on a world scale.

If you'll indulge me:

In the Left's world-view there is no such thing as motivation from a comprehensive philosophical view of Man based on fundamental ideas of the nature of Man and Man's relationship with reality.

I think every adult in the world [with the exception of the Obama administration] understands that ISIS has a certain idea about the nature of Man and Man's relationship with reality and that these fundamental ideas shape their ideas of what is right and wrong.

The motivations of ISIS don't revolve around hatred, they revolve around love for certain philosophical and cosmological ideas about the fundamental nature of Man and our relationship with reality.

Not hate. Not despair. Love. They act because there are certain things they LOVE. The love they base their horrors on is based on a comprehensive philosophical view. They love their beliefs. They act to gain that which they love. Hate is not involved.

The Left will never understand this because they deny that motivation stems not from economics but from ideas of right and wrong based on those fundamental building blocks of how you understand the nature of Man. The Left doesn't even acknowledge other philosophical ideas than their own. And that's the problem. They have a very mechanistic view of Man in which we are pushed and pulled by impersonal economic forces rather than beliefs and ideas fundamental to guiding a lifetime of decisions.

Domestically, the Left's crass materialism is exemplified by ObamaCare. Here they attempt to provide us with healthcare but in the process they deny us centuries old rights hard fought for of freedom of association and freedom of contract. These are inviolate rights which you must have to live your life as a free person for the possession of you own life. ObamaCare denies us those very rights we need.

Think of freedom of association and the freedom to contract as two of our POSITIVE rights. There are no other rights than our positive rights.

The Left callously denies you these rights that you need to posses and govern your life, to own your life, on the scale and planning you need to live your life on your own terms for the decades of your life. Your ability to posses your life on your terms by your beliefs on that which is good and right is the highest calling of human spirituality.

The Left in their crass materialism only sees your body as your life and thinks all you need is food, shelter, and medical care. Oh, and sexual gratifications. Given the chance they have always taken away all of the rights we need to live on a fully human plane of existence so as to guarantee us nothing but our most basic bodily needs.

When they see humanity all they see is warm bodies. And those warm bodies get pushed and pulled around by impersonal economic forces that upset your basic bodily needs.

Obama and the Left will never defeat ISIS. Obama's plan is to provide for them. To him they are just more warm bodies that yearn for socialism and a 'great' leader who'll take care of them so they can gratify their basic bodily wants and needs.

Obama can't even imagine the real world that's outside the small town of his narrow neo-marxist parochialism.

His ISIS plan will bring new horrors unimagined.

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Image One possible correction to the above: There is in fact some hate involved in the ISIS belief system, in that the beliefs that they love demand that they bear no love toward non-believers ("take no friends from among the non-believers"), and that they show no mercy toward those who resist submission to Allah. This is all in the Koran and ahadith. The Jews in particular are the worst enemies of Islam (according to the Koran again), and there is nothing in the Koran that dictates loving one's enemies. On the contrary, one must fight the non-believers wherever one finds them, until the unbelievers are dead, converted, or "pay[ing] the jizya and feel[ing] themselves subdued." (Koran again.) And on the Last Day, all Jews must be killed. So while it's true that they LOVE this belief system, what they love does demand that they hate certain things ... and people. (Christians are ordered to hate the sin but love the sinner. Islam makes no such distinction.)

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Personally, I prefer loving the sin and envying the sinner myself. But who am I to judge?


 
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