Sunni Islam as a "Group Strategy" counter attack against Judaic influence

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In trying to understand the legal frameworks of Sunni/Shia Islam we are often left speculating about not only its origins but its intentions. Recently I have been reading and studying some of Dr Kevin Macdonald's analysis of Judaism and the Jewish people. Macdonald believes Jews developed a Judaism that operates as a "group strategy" that aims to give Jews a competitive edge against other ethnicities and other races. Macdonald believes Jews have a very strong ethnic identity and common goals that makes them very cohesive. However he believes this strategy only works against nations and societies that have no strong sense of ethnic identity and some form of group identity such as European societies where individualism is promoted rather than group identity such as tribe, clan, family and sect.

Anyways I heve been looking at some critiques of his work and came across an important point

Kevin MacDonald Separation and its Discontents Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism
by Robert Pois

For Professor MacDonald, it is plain that the most successful resistance offered to exclusivist, collectivist Judaism was offered by kinds of unified, collectivist responses, at times, necessarily authoritarian. The most effective stage(s) in "evolutionary" anti-Semitism see the emergence of "mirror-imaging," i.e., when states, institutions, or best, when populations in general assume a "collectivist," perhaps necessarily authoritarian posture, in order to combat a collectivist Jewish entity which, throughout history, never has changed essentially. What the author sees as central "Western tendencies," --"universalism," and "individualism"--tendencies which Jews often have used for their own purposes, often have inhibited effective collectivist, if necessary, authoritarian responses (p. 133).

As MacDonald sees it, the most effective "mirror-imaging" response to Jewish racialist collectivism was posed by National Socialist Germany. In its rejection of the kinds of "universalism" and "individualism" characteristic of Western Christian societies, and, most crucially, its emphasis upon racial purity and group cohesiveness, which made it the most developed "mirror-image" of Judaism, it represented the most thorough-going variant of "evolutionary anti-Semitism." "There is," MacDonald tells us, "an eerie sense in which National Socialist ideology was a mirror image of traditional Jewish ideology" (p. 161). Now, there had emerged a truly effective response, in the name of a collectivist, egalitarian--to be sure, authoritarian--folk community to Jewish racial collectivism. Here, it is crucial to point out that the author does not deny the Holocaust. Quite simply, it appears that it is not all that important for him. What is of importance was the Nazi example--a collectivist, authoritarian, but somewhat egalitarian folk community, headed by a leader who really did understand what Jews were about, had been able to pose an effective challenge to Jewish racialism.

As far as the post-World War II Western world is concerned, Professor MacDonald is a pessimist. Particularly in the United States, with its emphasis upon universalism, individualism, and pluralism, it has been and will continue to be "difficult or impossible to develop unified, cohesive groups of gentiles united in their opposition to Judaism" (p. 276). This is particularly the case since, throughout the Western world in general, ethnic politics is becoming of ever greater importance. Since, as MacDonald sees it, only homogeneous, collectivist societies have offered effective resistance to Judaism, there will remain a fundamental and non-resolvable friction between Judaism and prototypical Western political and social structure..." (Ibid.) It would seem that one would not be pressing the logic of MacDonald's argument to suppose that, in the end, the National Socialist solution was the only one.

http//www.ideajournal.com/articles.php?id=18

In looking at the similarities between Rabbinic Judaism(Talmudic Judaism) and the Sunni/Shia sects we can here ask

Was Sunni Islam a counter to Judaic group strategy influence? Did it employ a "mirror-imaging" response?

http//www.houseofdavid.ca/isl_jud.htm

Maybe. Interesting stuff.