System has had the ability to appeal to wide array of people i.e. Dysfunctional, louts, thugs, rebels or the idiots. That has largely been possible due to the Preachers picking and choosing to highlight only one part of text from 'The Book. Nobody has the ability in their life time to go through the book and add to the difficulty of it being written only in Classical arabic. Thera re hardly 5 scholars of classical Arabic left in the whole world. More than anything, it has bred so many myths, conspiracies around the successes, swept under the carpet its failures or the design default that makes people surrender their mind.
Its ability to justify violence on Kufra or unbelievers along with its ability to force them into Dhimmi status & their justification can be simply understood by Islam's ability to inflict pain. Once converted, the new breed perpetrates even more violence on ther former tribe as a revenge for not defending them against the scourge and leaving them helpless thus to conversion.
The psychological violence that the average
Western woman goes through in terms of her sexual objectification is bound to
create a reaction at some point. The peer pressure to lose one's virginity by
freshman year in college, the prevalence of date-rape on college campuses
(usually not provable in court because of prior consumption of alcohol), etc.
is horrendous, and I've known more than one who reddened or even went
lachrymose on the recount. Many women converts are those who want to simply
avoid all this horrendous nonsense and love the chivalrous values and
treatment. Another section of converts are older women who have been through it
all, lived through a highly promiscuous period of their lives, and rejected it
because ultimately they found that the men in that culture are incapable of
devoted responsibility.
But in the big picture, Islamic missionary
activity in the West has a different selling point depending on which
demographic is being targeted. Islam is everything to all people, it is the
panacea that plugs all holes - Islam usually sells itself as a solid means to a
desired reality, and in limited cases it flashes a mystique that caters
to a curiosity about reality (Sufism).
In prisons it is one thing - sense of victimhood
and rebellion, a new brotherhood in and outside prison, identification with the
slaves who were some of the Prophet's (pbuh) earliest followers, a second
chance to repent one's wrongdoings and weaknesses and be in society again - but
importantly, to dedicate oneself to changing and converting it by picking a
much bigger fight on a global and cosmic scale than anything one has ever
gotten into before.
Among Left Liberals Islam is another thing -
claim of egalitarianism as demonstrated in praying together (over a wide
diversity of colorful races), a victim of Zionist oppression and its main
challenger like David and Goliath, victim of Orientalist prejudice that is all
wrong as touted by Edward Said, medieval cause of Europe's own renaissance, a
seductive culture of eloquence and mysticism about alternate reality that puts
Morocco and other places on the hippie's map, a jurisprudence that offers new
ways of thinking about old social and economic institutions, etc.
And among Conservatism-seeking types it is
another thing - no-compromise attitude, tough love, quick justice, fundamental
caveman values, control of women and sexuality, strict old-fashioned values but
in a more 'balanced' way than medieval Christianity and one that seems to
encompass and rein in many decadent modern tendencies (e.g. Moslem women dress
like nuns but don't have to actually live the 'unnatural' life of a nun,
celibacy is not institutionalized whereas polyamoury is brought within the
purview of 'marriage', etc.), co-existence of races but offering the White West
the mantle of political leadership of global Islamism just as the Turks won
that mantle by adopting it, anti-Jewish sentiment, conspiracy theories and
end-of-time Prophecies about 2nd coming of Christ (which Islam elaborately
discusses via Mahdi'ism), and very importantly a palliative for white guilt
about slavery and colonialism that is rubbed in by Left Liberals but which can
be easily justified by Islamic jurisprudence and theology, etc.
Thus one can see that it appeals to one segment
with one idea and appeals to another segment with a directly opposed idea - and
it justifies this by saying it is a "balance" between the two. This
is a very specious argument that can appear very convincing. Indeed it is true
that Islam does contain dipoles between which one can argue and position
oneself based on "taqwa" (conservative adherence) and
"rukhsat" (liberal leave), but the intrinsic permutation between
these opposites and the undercurrent between them is what is really
interesting. But most people can't yet see or understand that philosophically
or even experientially. With women converts to Islam also (or women born into Moslem
families trying to reconcile with modernity) it is the same case.
To be concluded...
