Most Jews teach their children knowledge, education, and the importance of being a contributing member to societies around them. Many Muslims teach their children to worship suffering.
I would add that Christianity for many centuries taught children similar notions. Suffering, martyrdom, and lack of personal agency: it was all in God's hands. The West that Christianity built changed quite suddenly with the French Revolution and the Enlightenment. It brought down Christianity and the Church as a dominating temporal power, but left people with 2,000 years of indoctrination to meekness, turning the other cheek, acceptance of dominance, toleration of the intolerant, forgiveness of the unforgivable, and eventually, total self human sacrifice for others. Everywhere, everybody, not just soldiers or medical professionals in dire life threatening areas .
Deeper still, the Christian West used Christianity to cover up for its blood soaked historic urges and colonisation ,common to all humankind. " Saving souls" went a long way in this spiritual deception. Christianity played it both meek and cruelly proud.
The result is Gad Saad's " suicidal empathy" in the West destroying it from within, allowing an invasion by Islam, precisely the disastrous totalitarian-ready savage mentality this article justifiably decries, but one which the dormant Western savage soul might understand as strength. Is there a mid -ground between Jesus - who preached meekness, but allegedly said he brought the sword and hostility- and Nietszche, for whom Nazi cruelty was an ideal?
It's hard for us to see and admit how one supremacist platform, Islam, succeeds in infiltrating the weak fabric of the West and use it to its controlling advantage, as there are common denominators ( like the cult of suffering and submission) , and the West, exhausted , guilt haunted and porous has lost its identity and one of society's strongest connecting bonds. Christianity had provided such identity and unity.
Golda Meir was dedicated to this issue for the other side and it got her nowhere. We are dealing with Tribal Societies who live in the dark ages. Mohammad Zahir Shah was the last king of Afghanistan, he was toppled in 1973. What the Taliban Tribes most strongly objected to was women being allowed at universities, studying next to men. For wanting to educate women King Mohammad Zahir Shah had to flee his country.
Yes I agree with this, firstly, I think they're bullying work very well this time. As well as their victimhood. You can't even mention their book in a bad light or you'll get fire bombed or something. Secondly they're online bullying that if you like Israel you must heat Muslims. And they're crying victim to everyone who'll listen like essay or Europe whatever and blaming Israel for every whitecrime under the sun
Thanks for excellent explanations, Maral. What’s frightening myself is the combination of current left ideology and Islam (I don’t call it islamism, I think it is an ideology rather than religion and no distinction appropriate). This “Islamogauchism” is now conquering media, justice system, public life in several countries, paired with Jew hatred. Hope following generations can resolve it.
Dan Burmawi wrote an excellent essay on how the notion that the Quran is immutable and not subject to interpretation stilted open inquiry and debate in the Muslim world:
The highly influential 11th century philosopher al-Ghazali rejected the concept of causality: in his famous example, a cotton ball does not catch fire because it was exposed to a flame; it catches fire because God wills it.
Although Judaism comes from the Middle East, Jewish religious study is the exact opposite: everyone studies with a partner, whose role is to challenge and argue with every proposal.
Muslim scientists have won a total of 5 Nobel Prizes in the sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Medicine). Israeli scientists working in Israel have won 6 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Jewish scientists have won over 20% of all Nobel Prizes in sciences.
Western superiority in the sciences comes from a tradition of open-ended debate.
"Those prizes have been very seriously criticised for their biases in a number of different ways so much so that they hardly constitute an objective measure of who contributes the most"
Pick up any modern physics book and look up there all the major ideas developed since 1905 and match them with the Nobel Prizes won by their authors. That's how well the Nobel Prizes in the sciences correlate with major contributions.
Not every major contribution was made by a Nobel Prize winner (eg Freeman Dyson or John von Neumann) but most were.
I think a great question is: Compare and contrast Islam’s “Supremacy/Victimization” theory and history to Judaism’s “Chosen-ness/Persecution history. How has each people, each culture responded to its historical “victimization/persecution”? E.g. the Jews expelled from Arab countries in 1948 responded differently than the Arabs who left British Palestine at the same time.
Excellent article, but one thing I would point out is that you're drifting from Jewish upbringing to Western upbringing in general to make your points about Muslim societies. Is Christianity a positive or negative in this question? One could argue either way. You may also want to discuss the Islamic Golden Age as well, and hypothesize about how an intellectually active civilization turned into an aggressively uncurious one.
This is one of the most lucid and unflinching analyses of the civilizational gap I’ve read in years. The real question has never been “Is Islam peaceful?” but “Why has Islamic civilization, across centuries and despite immense resources, repeatedly failed to produce open, innovative, and prosperous societies after independence?”
Colonialism is a lazy scapegoat. India dismantled that excuse within decades. The decisive variable is culture specifically the human type it reproduces. A culture that sanctifies suffering (Ashura), equates obedience with virtue, ties female dignity to submission, and instills supremacist victimhood cannot compete with one that rewards curiosity, individual agency, and empirical truth-seeking.
The psychological architecture is brutally effective: Supremacy (“final revelation”) + perpetual victimhood (“everyone is conspiring against us”) creates the perfect trap. It protects the system from reform because any failure is externalized as persecution or Jewish/ Western sabotage, never as a flaw in the ideas themselves. This is why criticism of Islam is immediately framed as an attack on Muslims, while the regime’s own atrocities against its people are ignored or justified.
The tragedy is that this machinery is self-reinforcing through the family and early childhood ,the most powerful transmitters of all. Mothers become unwitting guardians of the very system that limits them. Rituals like Ashura don’t just commemorate history; they install a worldview where pain is piety and martyrdom is the highest status. No wonder political violence, authoritarianism, and stagnation reproduce so reliably.
Western elites who defend this as “diversity” or “resistance” are not progressive ,they are participating in the burial of Enlightenment values. Civilizations are judged by results, not intentions. And the results of this particular cultural model, from Tehran to Karachi to the enclaves of Europe,speak for themselves.
The uncomfortable truth is this: Some cultures are simply better at generating human flourishing than others. Ignoring that reality out of political correctness doesn’t make it less true ,it only guarantees that the dysfunction will continue to spread.
There is a growing concern that high-skilled immigration programs, particularly H-1B, are not always used as originally intended. Instead of addressing genuine talent shortages, evidence shows that some companies may be using the system to cut labor costs and change workforce structures, especially in technology.
This isn't an argument against legal immigration. It's a call to restore integrity, transparency, and accountability to the system. When policies meant to fill important skill gaps are seen as ways to replace workers or lower wages, they undermine public trust and create ongoing economic and social problems.
The solution is not to shut down these programs but to make targeted reforms. We need to enforce stricter wage parity requirements, focus on truly specialized skill shortages, increase audits of program use, and connect immigration pathways with long-term national workforce development plans.
If we don't address this issue, it could deepen economic anxiety and weaken confidence in institutions and markets. If handled correctly, it can show how global talent mobility and domestic workforce stability can coexist in a balanced and sustainable way.
Most excellent discussion, Maral. Thank you for it. To present it in historical format while elaborating the contemporary psychological dimensions in this way makes for common sense reading. It's essential for the masses of people around the world focussing on 'colonialist oppression' as the evil to be dealt with to understand the wider picture, the umbrella of radical Islam now hovering over the entire world.
The brilliant Thomas Sowell wrote a terrific book in 1994 about why different cultures and races succeed and fail: "Race And Culture: A World View." Worth a read, as all his books are.
All in this article is true.
I would add that Christianity for many centuries taught children similar notions. Suffering, martyrdom, and lack of personal agency: it was all in God's hands. The West that Christianity built changed quite suddenly with the French Revolution and the Enlightenment. It brought down Christianity and the Church as a dominating temporal power, but left people with 2,000 years of indoctrination to meekness, turning the other cheek, acceptance of dominance, toleration of the intolerant, forgiveness of the unforgivable, and eventually, total self human sacrifice for others. Everywhere, everybody, not just soldiers or medical professionals in dire life threatening areas .
Deeper still, the Christian West used Christianity to cover up for its blood soaked historic urges and colonisation ,common to all humankind. " Saving souls" went a long way in this spiritual deception. Christianity played it both meek and cruelly proud.
The result is Gad Saad's " suicidal empathy" in the West destroying it from within, allowing an invasion by Islam, precisely the disastrous totalitarian-ready savage mentality this article justifiably decries, but one which the dormant Western savage soul might understand as strength. Is there a mid -ground between Jesus - who preached meekness, but allegedly said he brought the sword and hostility- and Nietszche, for whom Nazi cruelty was an ideal?
It's hard for us to see and admit how one supremacist platform, Islam, succeeds in infiltrating the weak fabric of the West and use it to its controlling advantage, as there are common denominators ( like the cult of suffering and submission) , and the West, exhausted , guilt haunted and porous has lost its identity and one of society's strongest connecting bonds. Christianity had provided such identity and unity.
What now, when it crumbles?
Golda Meir was dedicated to this issue for the other side and it got her nowhere. We are dealing with Tribal Societies who live in the dark ages. Mohammad Zahir Shah was the last king of Afghanistan, he was toppled in 1973. What the Taliban Tribes most strongly objected to was women being allowed at universities, studying next to men. For wanting to educate women King Mohammad Zahir Shah had to flee his country.
Yes I agree with this, firstly, I think they're bullying work very well this time. As well as their victimhood. You can't even mention their book in a bad light or you'll get fire bombed or something. Secondly they're online bullying that if you like Israel you must heat Muslims. And they're crying victim to everyone who'll listen like essay or Europe whatever and blaming Israel for every whitecrime under the sun
Pardon all my errors
Thanks for excellent explanations, Maral. What’s frightening myself is the combination of current left ideology and Islam (I don’t call it islamism, I think it is an ideology rather than religion and no distinction appropriate). This “Islamogauchism” is now conquering media, justice system, public life in several countries, paired with Jew hatred. Hope following generations can resolve it.
Dan Burmawi wrote an excellent essay on how the notion that the Quran is immutable and not subject to interpretation stilted open inquiry and debate in the Muslim world:
https://www.danburmawi.com/p/what-broke-the-muslim-mind
The highly influential 11th century philosopher al-Ghazali rejected the concept of causality: in his famous example, a cotton ball does not catch fire because it was exposed to a flame; it catches fire because God wills it.
Although Judaism comes from the Middle East, Jewish religious study is the exact opposite: everyone studies with a partner, whose role is to challenge and argue with every proposal.
Muslim scientists have won a total of 5 Nobel Prizes in the sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Medicine). Israeli scientists working in Israel have won 6 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Jewish scientists have won over 20% of all Nobel Prizes in sciences.
Western superiority in the sciences comes from a tradition of open-ended debate.
"Those prizes have been very seriously criticised for their biases in a number of different ways so much so that they hardly constitute an objective measure of who contributes the most"
Pick up any modern physics book and look up there all the major ideas developed since 1905 and match them with the Nobel Prizes won by their authors. That's how well the Nobel Prizes in the sciences correlate with major contributions.
Not every major contribution was made by a Nobel Prize winner (eg Freeman Dyson or John von Neumann) but most were.
That’s false
Pro-genocide bullshit.
I think a great question is: Compare and contrast Islam’s “Supremacy/Victimization” theory and history to Judaism’s “Chosen-ness/Persecution history. How has each people, each culture responded to its historical “victimization/persecution”? E.g. the Jews expelled from Arab countries in 1948 responded differently than the Arabs who left British Palestine at the same time.
Excellent article, but one thing I would point out is that you're drifting from Jewish upbringing to Western upbringing in general to make your points about Muslim societies. Is Christianity a positive or negative in this question? One could argue either way. You may also want to discuss the Islamic Golden Age as well, and hypothesize about how an intellectually active civilization turned into an aggressively uncurious one.
This is one of the most lucid and unflinching analyses of the civilizational gap I’ve read in years. The real question has never been “Is Islam peaceful?” but “Why has Islamic civilization, across centuries and despite immense resources, repeatedly failed to produce open, innovative, and prosperous societies after independence?”
Colonialism is a lazy scapegoat. India dismantled that excuse within decades. The decisive variable is culture specifically the human type it reproduces. A culture that sanctifies suffering (Ashura), equates obedience with virtue, ties female dignity to submission, and instills supremacist victimhood cannot compete with one that rewards curiosity, individual agency, and empirical truth-seeking.
The psychological architecture is brutally effective: Supremacy (“final revelation”) + perpetual victimhood (“everyone is conspiring against us”) creates the perfect trap. It protects the system from reform because any failure is externalized as persecution or Jewish/ Western sabotage, never as a flaw in the ideas themselves. This is why criticism of Islam is immediately framed as an attack on Muslims, while the regime’s own atrocities against its people are ignored or justified.
The tragedy is that this machinery is self-reinforcing through the family and early childhood ,the most powerful transmitters of all. Mothers become unwitting guardians of the very system that limits them. Rituals like Ashura don’t just commemorate history; they install a worldview where pain is piety and martyrdom is the highest status. No wonder political violence, authoritarianism, and stagnation reproduce so reliably.
Western elites who defend this as “diversity” or “resistance” are not progressive ,they are participating in the burial of Enlightenment values. Civilizations are judged by results, not intentions. And the results of this particular cultural model, from Tehran to Karachi to the enclaves of Europe,speak for themselves.
The uncomfortable truth is this: Some cultures are simply better at generating human flourishing than others. Ignoring that reality out of political correctness doesn’t make it less true ,it only guarantees that the dysfunction will continue to spread.
Zionutty bullshit.
That's all you got?
No, BB.
Why, would you like something more?
Not really, but feel free.
😂
Fuck off time-waster.
There is a growing concern that high-skilled immigration programs, particularly H-1B, are not always used as originally intended. Instead of addressing genuine talent shortages, evidence shows that some companies may be using the system to cut labor costs and change workforce structures, especially in technology.
This isn't an argument against legal immigration. It's a call to restore integrity, transparency, and accountability to the system. When policies meant to fill important skill gaps are seen as ways to replace workers or lower wages, they undermine public trust and create ongoing economic and social problems.
The solution is not to shut down these programs but to make targeted reforms. We need to enforce stricter wage parity requirements, focus on truly specialized skill shortages, increase audits of program use, and connect immigration pathways with long-term national workforce development plans.
If we don't address this issue, it could deepen economic anxiety and weaken confidence in institutions and markets. If handled correctly, it can show how global talent mobility and domestic workforce stability can coexist in a balanced and sustainable way.
Most excellent discussion, Maral. Thank you for it. To present it in historical format while elaborating the contemporary psychological dimensions in this way makes for common sense reading. It's essential for the masses of people around the world focussing on 'colonialist oppression' as the evil to be dealt with to understand the wider picture, the umbrella of radical Islam now hovering over the entire world.
The brilliant Thomas Sowell wrote a terrific book in 1994 about why different cultures and races succeed and fail: "Race And Culture: A World View." Worth a read, as all his books are.
If Muslim children had no guns they’d live in peace with their Jewish neighbors.
If Jewish children had no guns they’d be murdered by their Muslim neighbors.
Learn a little about Jews and colonialism.
https://futureofjewish.substack.com/p/jews-are-accused-of-colonialism-but?r=iwse9&utm_medium=ios