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Video: Raymond Ibrahim on Caravan to Midnight: Postmodernism and Jihad

Dec 1, 2015 9:53 am By Raymond Ibrahim

On November 20, I appeared on Caravan to Midnight, a subscription video podcast and syndicated radio talk show hosted by John B. Wells. Because the Skype video interview lasted nearly 90 minutes, a number of interesting but peripheral topics I normally don’t address were discussed, including how postmodern Western culture gives rise to the jihad. The video should start at the 1:05 mark.

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  1. خَليفة says

    Dec 1, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    Make the time to watch this video… As always, Raymond has lots of good insight

    • Ex-muslim says

      Dec 1, 2015 at 2:17 pm

      I agree. I wish every intellectual in the Western world watches this. These are truly deep, deep facts.
      Thank you Raymond Ibrahim and John B. Wells. Thank you so very much!

      • xxxChurch100 says

        Dec 2, 2015 at 5:20 pm

        I agree , another extremely well informed person in these matters is Mark Durie , his book
        ” The 3rd Option ” [ which I finished yesterday] is critiqued very favorably by Robert Spencer .

        Dr Durie’s lectures on the history of Islam , posted on utube are well worth a look …

        Regards

  2. underbed cat says

    Dec 1, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Why does Obama allow muslim refugees extremely few Christians, into the U.S. that is his (islam jihad) army to fundamentaly change the U.S, to a muslim, install sharia law, and conqueur. This is his obligation as a American muslim,it’s all in the books they read. The requirement to permissible lie to spread islam. It is called hijra. Islamic world is terrorizing the western countries. This has been ingrained diversity, and the misdirection is even found in the Koran to spread islam. The mb has been very effective in paving the way for subversion with ignorant acceptance. This will destroy only, in a gruesome way.

    Raymond, you may know , it has been here since the MB came to America growing undisturbed, isis is following the book of Islam….but all the times effective through permissible lying they are peaceful and working to undermine our values especially Christian or Judism, funded by the rich islamic countries of the ME.
    Think Saudi, who have been funding colleges and influencing our education centers and installing their
    religion, which requires muslims to wage war on the nonbeleivers.

    • underbed cat says

      Dec 1, 2015 at 9:29 pm

      Raymond Ibrahim has been speaking out on the behalf of the peaceful Coptic Christians, Yhazidis, Judism. He had witnesses to talk about the savage treatment.when isis arrived..I applaud his bravery, trying to effect a change. Apparently Putin was listening…while some leaders couldn’t see nor wanted to see the reality.

      I hope this gets out to many people. The refugee issue is so important, I know that many hearts break, but the reality of such mass migration of a people who support sharia would be catastropic., as we witness the disorder of bringing soldier age men to countries unprepared and and unable to protect against the coming jihad on the west. We can’t change the minds of determined aggressors whose minds have been indoctrinated since birth, once they start to demand housing, money, food, and have a desire to conquer thru terror when enough arrive. The religious obligation of hijra as prescribed by the verses in the koran.

  3. Christianblood says

    Dec 1, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    Thank you Raymond. All the facts you pointed out in this very crucial and great interview are real factual issues that are effecting our lives today. What is shocking is that 99.99 percent people in the US and in the West are so stupidly detached from this reality that they are not even aware of these facts or they don’t even care. People in America and in the Western world in general are more interested in watching or reading about such things as Bruce Jener “transgendering” into a “woman” than all the great facts you have pointed out in this interview. Today, the world is on the brink of world war lll as America crazily pushes it is lunatic “regime change” agenda in Syria backing and arming various evil islamic jihadists to realize her evil goal and standing in the way is Russia which will have none of this crazed American blindness and it will likely end up in a nuclear war between America and Russia. Russia has deployed powerful anti-craft systems in Syria after its plane was shot down by the American-backed muslim Turks and its service men murdered by American-armed barbaric muslim jihadists. One wonders, where are peace-loving American people? Why are they silent over this crazed jihadist-backing “regime change” that their government is blindly and crazily pursuing even after the disasters in Iraq and Libya? Why is the world silent over this? They better realize the time to prevent Nuclear war between Russia and America is now before it is too late.

    • Ex-muslim says

      Dec 2, 2015 at 5:20 am

      Christianblood

      I have the same questions and I am wondering if US/Nato will risk nuclear war with Russia for their illegal plans to overthrow a legitimate foreign government?

  4. Kilfincelt says

    Dec 1, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    The only quibble I have with Raymond is in regard to Putin. Russia may now have more awareness of its religious roots which is good, but he is still a dictator and he defends Iran which isn’t good. Iran’s leaders believe in jihad just as ISIS and wants to destroy the west. Islam in all of its guises is bad because of the belief that Mohammad was the perfect example of a good Muslim even though he was a murderer, thief, paedophile, etc. Thus, many Muslims, whether Sunni or Shite, follow his example.

    • Christianblood says

      Dec 1, 2015 at 7:01 pm

      President Putin is a man of common sense and is more reasonable and noble than ALL of the Western/American leaders put together! America and the West hate Putin because he opposes their fanatical, moral relativist, LGBT, anti-Christian agenda and he stands for traditional conservative Christian moral values which the Western world passionately hates. That is why America/West hate Putin. This “democracy” thing is just for cover for their evil destructive moral relativist agenda which Russia and other Orthodox nations of the East will never accept.

  5. mortimer says

    Dec 1, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    The main problem of Islam versus postmodernism is that postmodernism is so unobservant. Ludicrously, the Postmoderns have their eyes firmly shut, yet claim to know more than students of Islam about Islam. The jihadists must be laughing themselves silly. With the help of the Postmoderns, jihad is so easy…easy against a blind enemy! Jihad is now almost effortless since the enemy defends the jihadists and denies the very doctrine that motivates them and then refuses to learn it! They have little to fear. Half the job (that of stealth) is done for them by the Kafir enemies and targets of Islam. The Postmoderns aid and abet their own destruction by the jihadists and stop the West from defending itself!

    The Postmoderns are like Count Julian who aided the Muslims to invade Spain. He had no idea of the vast repercussions of his spiteful actions.

  6. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 1, 2015 at 9:38 pm

    “… postmodern Western culture gives rise to the jihad…”

    Thanks so much to Raymond for giving some attention to Postmodernism and noting its symbiotic relationship with the current International Jihad. Much of the current inability of intellectuals of countries currently under attack, to comprehend the threat that we face, is a product of the radical subjectivism and strident anti Western prejudice of the Postmodern philosophical/political tradition.

    This movement has eroded and destroyed notions of universal human rights and reduced the analysis and comprehension of human activities, to a struggle amongst competing cultural and social groups. The Postmodern Intellectual edifice was constructed predominantly from the works of the two Frenchmen Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.

    With the erosion of confidence in the Marxist class based analysis within intellectual streams, Postmodern thought came to the rescue of those with a jaundiced view of what was the Western Tradition (that today we might call a Universal Civilisation – as it has long outgrown its Western European origins and extends throughout many communities around the entire globe).

    Specifically in relation to Jihad Islam, the Postmodern attitude conceives of it as just another perspective of reality, held by a marginalised group, neither good nor bad, right or wrong, but with as legitimate a claim to moral authority as any other competing world view.

    The aspect that makes the Jihad cause particularly attractive to the Postmodern Mind is its uncompromising anti Western (anti Universal Civilisation) stance, that it is prepared to pursue vigorously with the heroic violence of yesterdays Arafat or Guevara.

    • John Johness says

      Dec 1, 2015 at 11:02 pm

      Post-modernism is, in essence, a power grab. The first part of any power grab is to attack the ethical basis of the group in power. By showing that everything, culture, right and wrong actions, history, is relative and there is no morality, the people in power loose their legitimacy. It becomes immoral to have morality.
      The next step is to replace those in power.. This has happened in Universities around the Western world. But the leftists groups who have replaced them are themselves subject to relativism. So to stop this, emotionalism and “public concern” has taken over from morality. But it has no depth. If it is used in the right way it has enormous power. It also has no logic, proof or strategy. So there can be no discussion. Hence the UN/EU and Obama.
      But on a personal level, all this is empty. Ethics has gone, logic has gone, proof and discussion have gone. The vacuum needs to be filled as there is no guidance for an individual or family in society.
      Hence Islam.
      Non rational, emotional, not allowing any discussion, eschew with proof or logic, absolutely certain, rigid. With a language that has no facts only speaks emotion and power, Arabic.
      Get ready for the mass conversions.
      Relativism (the core of post modernism) is a tool to grab power. It is completely illogical otherwise the statement “all is relative” would apply to itself.

      • mortimer says

        Dec 2, 2015 at 1:12 pm

        Postmodernism is self-referentially incoherent.

  7. John Johness says

    Dec 1, 2015 at 10:05 pm

    It is astounding that he even has to say all of this. It is so obvious. To listen to people discuss Islam and then watch them step back and back in the argument. They start with religion of peace, pass through extremists are not Muslim, then Crusades, violence in Bible, …… and on it goes. The latest I heard was that the Koran is pure and about peace but the Hadiths are wrong.
    It is as though normal sensible people have given up on proof and logic.
    More power to Raymond Ibrahim.

  8. TheOldOligarch says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 3:09 am

    This is Raymond at his very best I think. The long speech he does starting at around 1:30 is just gold, every single word of it is gold. I can’t remember the last time i heard the problems not just with Islam, but with the entire modern western culture summed up so succinctly and so perfectly.

    • Christianblood says

      Dec 2, 2015 at 5:11 am

      Very well-said. I agree, this is the best, the most profound and the most factual interview that I have ever watched and I wish everybody in the West watches it. Again, thank you Raymond for this superb and unparalleled piece of knowledge!

  9. NancyM says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 8:24 am

    I have just finished listening to a most profoundly informative interview. Thank you both to Raymond and to Robert Spencer for bringing this to my attention. I have to hope that knowledge is power.

  10. mortimer says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    Postmoderns are former strutting Marxists who lost their faith in communism, but continue to support ‘soft’ communism. They live in a fantasy-dream world of bemused mockery towards everything.

    What good can be expected from those who have no reasonable goal but to destroy Western civilization and leave nothing behind but a Cheshire cat smile?

    Postmoderns are Leftard cultural Marxist musties…smell the mold and share it!

  11. CeltictotheBone says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    Raymond, Robert, Stephen Coughlin, Baron&Dymphna and many others comprise a band of warriors speaking the truth about islam (the most cancerous ideology created by man) and barry soetoro (aka barack hussein obama), the most dangerous traitor to ever usurp the leadership of the nation responsible for preserving western civilization.

    May they rise in prominence as barry sinks into the same infamy and obscurity he shares with his bed-fellows Stalin, Mao and Adolph.

  12. Screeminmeeme says

    Dec 2, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Raymond is a wealth of valuable information and I so appreciate his articles here on JihadWatch. And I agree with him about Putin. I never thought I would ever say it, but I’m liking Putin more and more. He just said in a speech that global warming is massive fraud. In his UN speech, he also called out the Obama administration as being the cause for the ME mess.

    • Mathew Solo says

      Dec 3, 2015 at 12:44 am

      I Like Him Because He likes Dogs.

  13. Mathew Solo says

    Dec 3, 2015 at 12:32 am

    The fundamental act of modernity is to question the foundations of past knowledge.

    Logically postmodernism literally means after modernity.

    What happens after postmodernism?

  14. John Stefan Obeda says

    Dec 4, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    I want to encourage everyone to do what you can to spread this interview to others and, of course, listen to it yourself. What will happen if the postmodern way of thinking does not change? Well, America will no longer be at all what the founders of America made it to be by God’s blessings. America will be gone. I’ll be in heaven, but I’m very sad what will happen to my descendants. Maybe they will curse me for not doing enough to keep America the way it was in the beginning. God, the Holy Trinity, help us please.

  15. BC says

    Dec 7, 2015 at 9:28 am

    Whilst I agree with everything said here and am against the import of large numbers of Muslims to Western countries, when their world view is completely antithetical to our culture. There was one point I think is rather glib. ie. The Sunnis ought not to be fleeing from IS as IS is Sunni too. Muslims are like Christians they come in all shades and varieties. The ones who are fleeing IS are indeed Sunni but they may not find the activities and extremism of IS acceptable. Many Muslims do not want to go to Saudi Arabia either. It is like saying the Protestants should not have left the Roman church. Having said that and I just wanted to clarify the point, I think all Muslim migrants should have to swear commitment to Western values and culture and their willingness to integrate. This should be a condition of them being granted asylum in non Muslim countries.

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