Professor Robert Reilly, a speaker for the Institute of Catholic Culture, recently gave a hard-hitting interview for the European Conservative, comparing Islam & the West.
A portion of the interview with Professor Reilly speaking about Islamist philosophy:
“…it’s a denial of natural law and because of this almost perverse concentration on God’s omnipotence. The theological school in Sunni Islam called Ash’arism, which is the majority theological school, even today says that God is the first and only cause of everything and there cannot be secondary causes (such as natural law) because that would be a challenge to God’s omnipotence. So for God to be omnipotent, nothing else can be even so much as potent. Therefore, gravity does not make the rock fall; God does. Fire doesn’t burn cotton; God does. There is, therefore, no cause and effect in the natural world. This teaching has destroyed the Sunni Muslim world.”