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And precisely that facile world view was engaged from the very day of 9/11 by Muslim scholars
with assistance from the many Trojan Horses and Uncle Toms. It made, and still continues to
make ten years later, the otherwise un-congenial task of “imperial mobilization” all that much
more un-impedimental for invading and occupying “bad Muslim” nations while the “good
Muslims” who stay silent, or support the empire's narratives, are applauded and rewarded for
their “United We Stand”. See for instance, the 2010 600 page Fatwa on Terrorism [12] which
earned its Uncle Tom author a place next to the massa at the World Economic Forum in 2011.
As one can hopefully appreciate very clearly by now, the observation by Zbigniew Brzezinski:
“Hegemony is as old as mankind”, has only been true because of an almost infinite gamut of
facile views being deftly cultivated among the peoples who have lived and died for maintaining
the glory of their rulers from the very beginning of civilization.
Where to seek knowledge, wisdom, when all bearers of knowledge and wisdom, both in the
East and the West, appear to be shilling for self-interest? When the bearers of knowledge
today also appear to be the greatest manipulators and predators of man? And when the
knowledge seeker too is naturally beholden to socialization and susceptible to accepting facile
world views ingrained since birth?
See the CAIR report [13] for the difficulties faced in overcoming facile views by even the most
learned and pious when their own chiefs mislead them. For writing and disseminating that
response to CAIR report pointing out its significant omissions, one Muslim board member of
one of the largest Muslim community and mosque of California Bay Area responded: “Whose
interests are you serving? Hateful zionists or the hateful christian zioinists or both? Take me
off your list.”!
To be continued someday. For now – if there's interest – please see “The Poor-Man's Guide to
Modernity” [14] . Two additional articles which shed some tangential light on how difficult this
endeavor of seeking knowledge and overcoming facile views has become in our times: “The
IVY League Morons Syndrome” [15] and “Response to 'Why I'm leaving Harvard'” [16] . A review
of the FAQ: What is an Intellectual Negro? [17] and the report on the Mighty Wurlitzer [18] may
prove useful in becoming self-aware of some of the mental gymnastics of servitude which
naturally encourage holding self-serving facile views even among the most learned, especially
among super-educated, upwardly mobile colonized peoples.
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