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2010-12-31 Africa North

Arab scholars, clerics urge religious moderation

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Posted by Fred 2010-12-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 For his part, Jordanian professor Hayel Abdelhafid Daoud confirmed in his lecture that Mohammedans "are now required to explain some issues in dealing with the other based on the principles of mercy, non-compulsion in religion, justice, equality in human dignity, and co-operation among all the people of different religions and ethnicities to do good."

Daoud said that the discourse targeting non-Mohammedans is subject to many rules, the most importance of which is the correct understanding of Qur'anic texts that call for jihad.

Wha? The correct understanding of Quranic texts calls for extermination of non-Mohammedans, Daoud. Quit trying to complicate the issue.

Posted by Ralphs son Johnnie 2010-12-31 02:39|| 2010-12-31 02:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Ideological deviation is the basis of extremism, and dialogue, argument, proof and evidence can change the convictions of those Islamic myrmidons

I bet the useful idiots will lap it up.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-12-31 05:54|| 2010-12-31 05:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Th problem for Islam is that conquest of the infidel is the proof that Muhammed was correct. Basically, Islam has been in an existential crisis since the Reconquista in Spain and the defeat of the Ottomans at the gates of Vienna. (Completely separate from the existential crisis that resulted from the oneness of the community having been broken up when Cordoba and Cairo became capitols of completely independent and competing caliphates at the end of the first millenium A.D./C.E.,, which blew out of the water the idea of a single Muslim community of God's people.)

The smart people are realizing that jihad by the sword is no longer practical when the infidels have both better swords and better sword wielders, which means that jihad of the sword will quickly result in the defeat -- and disproof -- of Islam. The soft jihad of colonization and the law is already causing a strong reaction in the infidel world: anti-immigrant parties suddenly gaining respectability and garnering large shares of parliamentary seats throughout the EU, the galvanic response to the Ground Zero mosque in the U.S.. So the only possibility is for Islam to learn to get along with others as an equal instead of ruler, and hope that eventually voluntary conversions will achieve for Mohammed's prophesy what jihad in all its forms could not.

/Got Destiny Disrupted: a history of the world through Islamic eyes by Tamim Ansary, which has prompted philosophical thoughts. Also critical ones of the text, but that's a separate issue, and anyway I'm only up to the eleventh century.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-12-31 14:37|| 2010-12-31 14:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Masterful piece, TW

Posted by Ralphs son Johnnie 2010-12-31 21:36|| 2010-12-31 21:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Bowing obsequiously as I leave the room.

Posted by Ralphs son Johnnie 2010-12-31 22:17|| 2010-12-31 22:17|| Front Page Top

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