Exorcists | Us and Them: Part Two
In Part Two of *Us and Them*, Shahid Bolsen continues the civilizational reckoning — from the transatlantic slave trade to Hiroshima to the live-streamed genocide in Gaza — and makes a distinction most people miss: your outrage is not about what is being done. It is about being caught doing it. The moral claims of Western civilization are not principles. They are credit cards — a line of borrowed credibility that lets you live above your actual moral means, until the debt comes due. Then Bolsen addresses Muslims directly: the da'ee who says "you are us and we are you" is not being spiritual, he is being dangerous. There is an us and a them. History documents what each does when given power. And finally — the statement Western civilization is least equipped to process — Islam is the only thing standing between 2 billion people with legitimate, living, documented grievances and a response that would make everything you have done look minor. You want Muslims secular and Westernized. You have not thought that through.
In Part Two of *Us and Them*, Shahid Bolsen continues the civilizational reckoning — from the transatlantic slave trade to Hiroshima to the live-streamed genocide in Gaza — and makes a distinction most people miss: your outrage is not about what is being done. It is about being caught doing it. The moral claims of Western civilization are not principles. They are credit cards — a line of borrowed credibility that lets you live above your actual moral means, until the debt comes due. Then Bolsen addresses Muslims directly: the da'ee who says "you are us and we are you" is not being spiritual, he is being dangerous. There is an us and a them. History documents what each does when given power. And finally — the statement Western civilization is least equipped to process — Islam is the only thing standing between 2 billion people with legitimate, living, documented grievances and a response that would make everything you have done look minor. You want Muslims secular and Westernized. You have not thought that through.