In the words of the one and only Inigo Montoya:
Or, if you are more into classical music:
“Because, you know, sometimes words have two meanings…”
It is impossible to hold a meaningful conversation with somebody when you both think you know what the words you are using mean, but in reality, you each subscribe to a completely different meaning of that word.
For example, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood government that had come to power in Egypt following the ‘Arab Spring’ was lead by Morsi’s party, which was called the ‘Freedom and Justice Party’.
Muslim Brotherhood = Freedom and Justice?
Why, yes – if you mean what the Islamists understand these words to mean.
‘Freedom’, according to Koranic sources, is defined as ‘freedom from the laws of men’. In other words, being ruled by the word god, Allah, alone.
In other words, they understand the word ‘freedom’ to mean the implementation of the Sharia and Sharia alone.
And ‘justice’?
‘Justice’ according to laws of God and God alone: again, Sharia.
In these people’s mind, the way we use the words ‘freedom’ and ‘justice’ is a perversion of their true meaning (Sharia and only Sharia) and we are ‘spreading mischief’ by perverting these words.
And under Sharia, the penalty for ‘spreading mischief’ is death.
A simple way to tell a moderate Muslim from an Islamist is to ask their view on whether Sharia should be implemented in the West.
If they say no, they are here because they are attempting to flee the horrors of life under Sharia and we must do our utmost to protect them, because they will be the first victims of the Islamists. Many are afraid to speak out, for very real fear that relatives stuck in Islamic countries would be harmed for their words: Islam is a clan-based culture where you are often held responsible for your relatives actions.
If they say yes, then they are an Islamist who is advocating, in no uncertain terms, the elevation of SHaria above our own laws. This is treason and our societies must treat it as such. All advocates of Sharia in the West must be arrested and charged with treason, because that is what trying to replace our laws with Sharia is.
Following is an excellent video. It is a bit longer than what I usually post, but it is most excellent:
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 
January 16, 2015 at 23:53
Xanthippa:
You write “All advocates of Sharia in the West must be arrested and charged with treason.”
Of course that’s true, but as things stand, there is no chance of it happening.
Just look at the ridiculous stance and disreputable conduct resorted to by the Canadian government in order to avoid charging Omar Khadr with treason.
The concept of treason is too intimately related to the concept of patriotism, and the concept of patriotism must die to prepare the way for the global totalitarian plutocracy.
However your main point is well taken. Islamists use words deceptively in much the same way that cultural Marxists use words deceptively. No wonder they get along so well. Each group thinks they’re using the other, and they’re both right.
In the long run, though, it will turn out that the Muslims are better at it. After all, they’ve been doing it for 1400 years. Nonetheless, the real damage to the western psyche has been done by the cultural Marxists. More on that in a moment.
First, here’s a brief outline of the reality behind the Islamic rhetoric: Why We Are Afraid: A 1400 Year Secret by Dr. Bill Warner.
Warner’s facts speak for themselves, but I completely disagree with his psychology.
We are not afraid as a result of being traumatized by centuries of jihad. That’s just ridiculous.
We are afraid as a result of the wholesale feminization of western society by cultural Marxism.
Just look at the role models fed to our young by the western media… it’s perfectly obvious why our enemies don’t take us seriously.
By the way, there are some excellent documentaries on YouTube about the suppressed history of Islam. Among them is the following, made for TV but never aired: Islam: The Untold Story by Tom Holland.
January 17, 2015 at 01:03
Hello CodeSlinger!
Shockingly, we agree – yet again!
Actually, during Bill Warner’s last Canadian speaking tour, I helped transport him between venues (Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal) and I raised the very issue you cite with him…. As I have commented on other blogs/news sites, I blame the hyper-feminization of especially our schools, which treat masculinity as an abhorrent health disorder, for driving young men to an ideology that validates their masculinity….and, right now, the only one not attacked as ‘culturally inappropriate’ is Islam…
January 20, 2015 at 15:57
Xanthippa:
Don’t get me started…
At an age when their boys are learning to field-strip an AK-47, ours are being expelled from school for pointing a finger and saying “bang.”
This is a difference no amount of military technology can compensate for. Because ultimately, wars are won and lost in the minds of the people.
Nothing can replace the will to win. And that will is precisely what a modern Western schooling is designed to destroy.