The only reason I can see for posting this is you want to stoke the fires of cultural and religious conflict between the middle east and the west. It's a hatemongering post. Here is a call for reason… Arab Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan
I've seen that video – she is fantastic. However, I posted this because I found it sad and interesting. However, while Muslims are people just like you and me, I continue to assert, along with many scholars, that Islam is a religion of war and supression, not because of extremists, but because of its founders life and teaching. I'll be posting on this shortly, not because I want to foment problems, but because westerners are duped by their multi-culturalism (thinking all cultures are of equal worth, and of course, all value systems), and Islamic front groups like CAIR play right into our self-deception.
Sure, there are moderate muslims. But I still think that the teachings of Islam are part of the problem, not just the interpretation of a few extremists. Islam has always been a faith of violence and supression, and it will continue to be so because its foundational teachings are so, despite the noble attempts at trying to soften it.
Seeker,
I have found a great article that supports both of us. It is written my Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith." Head-in-the-Sand Liberals
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While liberals should be the ones pointing the way beyond this Iron Age madness, they are rendering themselves increasingly irrelevant. Being generally reasonable and tolerant of diversity, liberals should be especially sensitive to the dangers of religious literalism. But they aren't.
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.
To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.
As you know I have had family with "blood in the sand" so I am under no illusion about the violent tendencies of the Muslim religion. I also think the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a bunch of BS.
My point is that the only way to change Muslim religious dogma is through people like Wafa Sultan who call for reason and secular values. She is a liberal who is "pointing the way beyond this Iron Age madness."
Yes, point well made. But I am not trying to change Islam by pointing up such *common* practices in Islam. Rather, I am trying to wake misguided liberals like Rosie O'Donnel (who never reads my blog ;) who think that Christianity is somehow just as much an immanent threat as Islam. They are sheep going to the slaughter in their dislike for criticism of Islam, while they lose no sleep over their trumped up "sky is falling" accusations against Christianity. They need some serious perspective, and this type of post is for THEM, not Muslims.
The only reason I can see for posting this is you want to stoke the fires of cultural and religious conflict between the middle east and the west. It's a hatemongering post. Here is a call for reason…
Arab Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan
I've seen that video – she is fantastic. However, I posted this because I found it sad and interesting. However, while Muslims are people just like you and me, I continue to assert, along with many scholars, that Islam is a religion of war and supression, not because of extremists, but because of its founders life and teaching. I'll be posting on this shortly, not because I want to foment problems, but because westerners are duped by their multi-culturalism (thinking all cultures are of equal worth, and of course, all value systems), and Islamic front groups like CAIR play right into our self-deception.
Sure, there are moderate muslims. But I still think that the teachings of Islam are part of the problem, not just the interpretation of a few extremists. Islam has always been a faith of violence and supression, and it will continue to be so because its foundational teachings are so, despite the noble attempts at trying to soften it.
Seeker,
I have found a great article that supports both of us. It is written my Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith."
Head-in-the-Sand Liberals
excerpt…
As you know I have had family with "blood in the sand" so I am under no illusion about the violent tendencies of the Muslim religion. I also think the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a bunch of BS.
My point is that the only way to change Muslim religious dogma is through people like Wafa Sultan who call for reason and secular values. She is a liberal who is "pointing the way beyond this Iron Age madness."
Yes, point well made. But I am not trying to change Islam by pointing up such *common* practices in Islam. Rather, I am trying to wake misguided liberals like Rosie O'Donnel (who never reads my blog ;) who think that Christianity is somehow just as much an immanent threat as Islam. They are sheep going to the slaughter in their dislike for criticism of Islam, while they lose no sleep over their trumped up "sky is falling" accusations against Christianity. They need some serious perspective, and this type of post is for THEM, not Muslims.