# 5 FORMING CONSCIENCES FOR FAITHFUL CITIZENSHIP # 4

# 5 - FORMING CONSCIENCES FOR FAITHFUL AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP # 4 
IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM  - TUES. NOV. 26/19

BILL BARR SHOWS THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS 'GENERIC RELIGION'

LifeSite - Friday, Nov. 8, 2019 - This article originally appeared in the October 27, 2019 edition of Catholic World Report. It is published here with permission from the Turning Point Project. Completed

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"Still, it is often argued that Muslims share many values in common with Christians and Jews, and that Islam plays a major role in helping Muslims govern their passions and curtail their appetites. After all, Muslims are opposed to pornography, abortion and the LGBT agenda.But a closer look reveals that self-governance practiced by Muslims if often akin to the "self-governance" exhibited by North Korean peasants. They behave themselves because they have to.                                                                                                                        

Most people will learn to control themselves if the alternative is an electric shock or its psychological equivalent. And most will adjust their consciences accordingly. For every Iranian woman who refuses to wear the hijab, there are a hundred who have convinced themselves that wearing it is a proof of virtue.

There is, however, a double standard in Islam when it comes to controlling passions. Women are expected to control themselves; men, not so much. Indeed the woman carries a double burden. If a man loses his sexual self-control, he has no one to  blame but a woman. Women are responsible not only for controlling themselves, but also for the man's loss of self-control. In the presence of an uncovered women, the man cannot be expected to control himself.

This element in Islamic culture help why to explain why the incidence of rape skyrocketed in England, Germany, Sweden, and other European countries after the mass Muslim migration of 2015-2016. Young Muslim Muslim men suddenly encountered streets full of women who, in addition to being uncovered, were also infidels, & therefore completely unqualified for the protection owed to Muslim women who dress modestly.

This is the Islamic version of vive la difference. Indeed the whole Islamic system is built on a structure of differences and inequalities. Chief among these are that men are superior to women and Muslims are superior to non-Muslims. In fact, Islamic law stipulates that the value of a Christian or Jew is only one third of a Muslim.

This brings us back by a circuitous route to the Founders and the founding document - the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration states that "all men are created equal," and "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." But, as I wrote in an earlier: "Which Creator is the Declaration referring to? It would make no sense to claim that Allah would qualify for the position, because in Islam all men are not created equal, Muslims, who are described in the Koran as 'the best of people,' are considered to be decidedly superior to non-Muslims.                                                                                                                                      

 It is good bet that when the Founders spoke of God and religion, they were not thinking of Allah and Islam. And it's an even better bet that that when William Barr talks about the benefits of religion, he's mainly talking about the benefits conferred by the Judeo-Christian moral system.

In as sense, Barr's speech was a counter-cultural statement. By omitting any reference to Islam he was going against the tide of contemporary culture - a culture which insists that all religions and cultures are interchangeable, and that all are equally good. Considering that Barr was speaking to a Catholic audience, it's ironic that more than a few in the hierarchy now seem to subscribe to that very proposition.

I am sure that Barr would be the first to agree that a Muslim's freedom of religion is and ought to be protected by the First Amendment. But Islam itself claims to be a whole different hall of wax in relation to other religions.

On matters of equality and religious freedom, it differs markedly from Christianity. It wouldn't be truthful to pretend otherwise.Since Muslims make up less than two percent of the American population, the questions raised here seem like merely academic questions....                                                                                          

Now, however, in many parts of Europe the number of Muslims who attend mosque on Friday will soon surpass  number of Christians who attend Sunday services.

We tend to think that Islamization will never happen in America. But twenty years ago, who would have believed that the number of "nones" (the religiously unaffiliated) would exceed the number of Catholics in the U.S? Barr asks, "What is it that can fill the spiritual void in the hearts of the individual person?"...Will it be a resurgence of Judeo-Christian morals as Barr hopes? Or will it be some rigid secular orthodoxy as he fears? Or will it be, as is increasingly the case in Europe, the religion of Muhammad?"   

George H, Kubeck