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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-affair.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/as...ex.html?hpt=C2
I had numerous convs w/ the moon-eyed Mormons of this stripe while I was at the Y and since - the basic case I heard was that Islam is Mormonism's misunderstood cousin (we're both, after all, in favor of modesty and, errr, fidelity). So I'm just pausing from my day of half-assed Sabbath observance to flip you all a giant bird from the shadow of St Paul's.
Islam - properly practiced - is a pathology. Mohammed was an illiterate epileptic warlord who ruthlessly slaughtered his opponents and the Koran is a MAD magazine of mostly incoherent violent demagoguery. To the extent that it preaches charity it is charity for the Ummah - the unbelievers, even the allegedly protected "People of the Book" are only protected in submission.
I have many Muslim friends who are the salt of the earth. I've spent time in Jordan with the family of close friend, I've had two devout, practicing Persian housemates. They bought me a copy of the Koran (my second) and read it with me (my second reading). But all of them have one thing in common - they have found universal principles that transcend Islam's deeply embedded localisms.
And please - spare me the bullshit kneejerk comparisons to biblical violence or silly equivalence plays on the Crusades. The Bible is composed of a thousand voices - not one incorruptible fusion of God and a prophet - and it offers no blanket justification for violence against the generic "unbeliever" which the Koran repeatedly does. The founders of the two biblical religions never lined up hundreds of vanquished opponents and beheaded them into a trench, never plotted the assassination of political opponents, never "married" (a neat euphemism for sanctioned rape) 9 year old girls, never organized looting raids on caravans when they needed money. And the Bible's worst episode of violence/conquest against unbelievers (Joshua) was flat-out wrong - and most of us can just say that.
OK, I'm running on - but to recap: Radical Islam is FUBAR. Non-radical Islam is only non-radical because it manages to ignore the batshit crazy ravings that make up much of its foundational text, and to bracket the horrible, murdering, paranoid, subjugating, child-marrying life of its primary exemplar.
Have fun with this kiddies, I'm out.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-affair.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/as...ex.html?hpt=C2
I had numerous convs w/ the moon-eyed Mormons of this stripe while I was at the Y and since - the basic case I heard was that Islam is Mormonism's misunderstood cousin (we're both, after all, in favor of modesty and, errr, fidelity). So I'm just pausing from my day of half-assed Sabbath observance to flip you all a giant bird from the shadow of St Paul's.
Islam - properly practiced - is a pathology. Mohammed was an illiterate epileptic warlord who ruthlessly slaughtered his opponents and the Koran is a MAD magazine of mostly incoherent violent demagoguery. To the extent that it preaches charity it is charity for the Ummah - the unbelievers, even the allegedly protected "People of the Book" are only protected in submission.
I have many Muslim friends who are the salt of the earth. I've spent time in Jordan with the family of close friend, I've had two devout, practicing Persian housemates. They bought me a copy of the Koran (my second) and read it with me (my second reading). But all of them have one thing in common - they have found universal principles that transcend Islam's deeply embedded localisms.
And please - spare me the bullshit kneejerk comparisons to biblical violence or silly equivalence plays on the Crusades. The Bible is composed of a thousand voices - not one incorruptible fusion of God and a prophet - and it offers no blanket justification for violence against the generic "unbeliever" which the Koran repeatedly does. The founders of the two biblical religions never lined up hundreds of vanquished opponents and beheaded them into a trench, never plotted the assassination of political opponents, never "married" (a neat euphemism for sanctioned rape) 9 year old girls, never organized looting raids on caravans when they needed money. And the Bible's worst episode of violence/conquest against unbelievers (Joshua) was flat-out wrong - and most of us can just say that.
OK, I'm running on - but to recap: Radical Islam is FUBAR. Non-radical Islam is only non-radical because it manages to ignore the batshit crazy ravings that make up much of its foundational text, and to bracket the horrible, murdering, paranoid, subjugating, child-marrying life of its primary exemplar.
Have fun with this kiddies, I'm out.
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