Generally specialists tend to see the solutions to a problem as being a function of their specialty. As the expression goes, ‘to a hammer, everything is a nail’. In more practical terms, one might not want to ask a surgeon as first choice about how to deal with a headache.
In terms of dealing with the issue of Islam in the West, I tend to boil the issue down to the simple matter of normalizing criticism of political and religious authority. A keystone of the renaissance and in my opinion, the single most important aspect of this entire problem. Islam as a force for social change and galloping totalitarianism in Western countries has, in my opinion, been nearly completely because our own peers and to one extent or another, our governments and laws have made what should be a keystone right into a speech and thought crime. Even and perhaps especially when the observations under criticism are true.
The interview I did this past spring but just got around to editing last night thanks to a combination of a geopolitically action packed summer and a solid case of insomnia, boils it down to the lost concept of a right to and belief in our own cultures. It is with Prof. John Kenneth Press, a self declared, ‘culturist’ who is a professor at a university in South Korea but is of American origin.
This is part 1. Part II will be mad available fairly soon.
