Islamisation.

There’s no doubt in my mind that Islam is a failed religion. Failed because any religion is an attempt to bring people into a higher state of consciousness where differences are accepted in the spirit of love and oppression is rejected as the purveyor of fear. It has failed because the Koran can be interpreted to condone both love and oppression. As a result Islamic states and the different Islamic factions they contain are, as well as sharing love, shedding much blood. As a result many are fleeing to the comparative safety of largely Christian Europe. So the question is now at home, what are they exporting, love or fear? Are they bringing gifts or Islamisation? And even closer, do we ourselves respond in fear or charity? During an anti Islamisation march organised by right wing anti Muslims the dean of Cologne Cathedral turned off the floodlights saying “It is a challenge: to consider who you are marching alongside.” We must not conflate anti-Muslim with Islamisation. Mohamed was both a re-interpretor of the Abrahamic profits and a military general and the Koran contains both these aspects, to be a Muslim and to overthrow non-believers, to love and to Islamise. The dean was right, we must choose, do we reject oppression and/or can we accept them as just different in the spirit of love? Christian or no this is an indication of a higher state of consciousness. But life will remain a messy business. Then again it’s that messy business that will propel us higher if we let it.