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Who Is Behind The War Against The Reason?

The murder of the U.S. ambassador in Libya is part of a wider battle being fought by a variety of religious faiths.

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 02 Oct 2012

What can be done about it? Some optimists think that education, employment and economic development will slowly but surely lead the fundamentalist masses away from mono-theism and towards a better quality of enlightenment. Bearing in mind the Irish experience (among others) they might be right. After all, we were dominated by a kind of Taliban for generations. And there were deeply unpleasant instances of mob rule here too.

Equally, they may be wrong. Northern Ireland had billions thrown at it and it’s still heartbreakingly easy to get a mob onto the streets, hell bent on destruction. And look at Australia – it’s a very advanced and prosperous society but there were Islamic rioters on the streets there last week.

Or look at Germany where Anatolian families who arrived from Turkey two generations ago still haven’t (been) integrated into German society. Look at the persistence of arranged marriages among immigrants in the UK. Look at honour killings in Sweden and elsewhere, by people who have maintained their tribal and religious loyalties despite huge investment and support from their new host states…

We’re locked in a cycle. Very powerful forces across various faiths work ceaselessly to suck the mass of ‘believers’ deeper into unreason and ignorance. That way, not only are they controlled, they are also a weapon that can be unleashed whenever the ideologists of unreason see an opportunity.

The war being waged for and against reason is shaping up as the first great war of the 21st century. We need to get our asses in gear…



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