Grégoire Canlorbe interviews Howard Bloom, who argues that Islamic religion is inherently violent. Gatestone Institute.
Mustafa Akyol argues, by contrast, that politics has poisoned Islam. The New York Times.
Virginia Murr provides an overview essay on the major theologian of Islamism, Sayyid Qutb. Rockford University.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that Islam needs a Reformation. The Wall Street Journal.
I argue that Islam does not: “No Reformation for Islam, Please.” The Good Life series.
And my recent article on how we tamed our own religious terrorists: “The Fight with Religious Terrorism is a Philosophical, Multi-Generation, Winnable Battle.” The Savvy Street.
I disagree with the “Winnable Battle” part. Given that we still have terrorism today, the war was never actually won, was it? Oh sure, the British and the Spanish don’t kill each other any more, but that seems to me to be more of a case of empires crumbling than embracing humanism. And humanism was embraced only because of a unique set of factors occurring over those centuries – it won’t happen again any time soon.
It looks to me your description of how to win the battle is pretty much impossible with the trends in governments to be ever larger, ever more totalitarian, and ever more despair inducing and soul crushing. The Islamists will eventually takeover the governments of the west and then we’ll have sharia law for the next 10,000 years or so. Fortunately, I’m old enough so that won’t happen until after I’m dead.
I think you may be the last humanist standing. Good luck!