With the big news being the conflict between Israel and Hamas, I feel like I've been running into a lot of anti-semitic videos. Whether it's Floridians calling for Jews to return to the ovens of the Holocaust or Imams describing how they wish they could bite the heads off of Jews, it seems like the hate speech of radical Islam should be too obvious for even the mainstream media to avoid (although it hardly seems to be taking it seriously). It's not news that radical Islam has been indoctrinating Muslims with hate for years now.
But it might, paradoxically, give us some degree of hope that this hate has to be pushed so hard through media outlets and education. Hatred for a group, and in this particular case, hatred of the Jewish people, is something that must be taught. If something must be taught, then it is not something that the recipient of the education already knows. If that knowledge is absent in the student, then it must not be natural.
It is only necessary to teach hate if the natural inclination of the person is something else, such as love. Propagandists believe that hatred must be inscribed on the minds of children because it is not already written on their hearts at their creation.
This should also give us hope that radical Islam is doomed to failure because it will always be in conflict with the natural law. Whereas ideological hatred must be taught to be transmitted, love and a desire for true freedom will always bubble up to the surface over time.
Evil is limited in its existence because it suffers from a kind psychic law of thermodynamics: energy always escapes through the system over time. Good, however, has its source in infinite or rather eternal power, and therefore it never needs to fear running out of energy.
Perhaps this is why the radical Imams and terrorists seem so panicked. Although they sought to save themselves by their way of life, they must realize that the way of life they have embraced is also in real peril of collapse, and so they become desperate in their means and minds. Maybe they are afraid that their children will suspend their disbelief in their deranged anti-Jewish or anti-Western rants. Questioning the authority of their religious leaders will lead them to love their enemies; maybe those leaders are afraid that such love would make their followers weak and vulnerable -- the natural state of man.
While I think the form of hatred being espoused by radical Islam is pure evil, I don't think that its professors are pure evil in heart. They seem frightened and genuinely concerned in the preservation of their people and way of life, but they have chosen a path that will only exacerbate those fears and lead to their destruction because they have abandoned the naturally-inscribed and self-perpetuating tendency of creation to love.
Even if radical Islam is not stamped out by external means, it must eventually burn itself out because it will not be able to extinguish the natural inclination to love.
Alternatively, the success of Christianity depends wholly on its ability to surrender itself to that love.
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