Schall, who taught for several years at various locations before retiring in December 2012, including Gregorian University in Rome and Georgetown University, condemns “Western thinkers” for their “narrow views” when it comes to writing off ISIS and other like groups as just extremists and not of Islam. “To look elsewhere for an explanation is simply not to see what the Islamic State and its friends are telling us about why they act as they do. The tendency among pragmatic Western thinkers, locked into their own narrow views, is to exclude any such motivation as an excuse of raw power. This view shows the intellectual shortcomings of Western leaders and the narrowness of much Western thought. “Jihadism, as it were, is a religious movement before it is anything else. Allah does grant violence a significant place. It is over the truth of this position, or better the inability to disprove it, that the real controversy lies.” Read more at westernjournalism/catholic-priest-just-exposed-islam-truly/#ZTwC8qMuWvzvAKzX.99
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:05:47 +0000
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