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2006-02-27 Arabia

Islams moral centre threatened by puritans

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Posted by Fred 2006-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 These "moderate" articles / books are written for the West. In English.

Why? Seeking (publish or perish) tenure? A fresh visa? Taqiya? Sleight of Mouth? "Hey look over here!"

We don't need to hear this, and he's damned late to the party to boot. Gosh, I'm having a crisis of confidence in his sincerity and usefulness. The assholes of Islam who can't tolerate non-Muzzies, who can't co-exist with non-Muzzies, who generally don't read or speak English with enough proficiency to understand WTF he's talking about -- THEY need to hear this, if we are to take him and his like seriously.

Besides, a 10 minute visit by a jihadi would kill his muse, methinks. You can almost picture the "list" of these guys (lol, it'd be a damned short one) kept by the "extremists"... I'll bet the standard question is, "Does he rate a plane ticket?"

Posted by .com 2006-02-27 03:28|| 2006-02-27 03:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Prof Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles, argues in his book The Great Theft that Muslims should wrest control of the discourse on defining what being a Muslim means in the modern world away from extremists.

Less talk. More rock.

The supposed majority of moderate Islam has had 200 years to refute al-Wahab. Instead, either the moderates have lost ground or simply been revealed as not that moderate at all.

So stop talking in English and start acting.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-27 07:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-27 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Behead this Apostate!!!

Only death and subjugation can further the aims of Islam!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Hupoluger Jaimp3665 2006-02-27 08:45|| 2006-02-27 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 this professor visited Qatar a few years ago and went on TV there to 'debate' a Wahabi iman

Rather than debating him, the Wahabi iman ridiculed him, making jest of Prof El Fadl's clothes, his accent, his University affiliation, his presumed Zionist friends, etc.

It would be better for the Prof to leave Islam than to attempt these feeble tries at reform.

Posted by mhw 2006-02-27 09:20|| 2006-02-27 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 "The Islam with a song in its heart?"
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"The Hitler with a song in his heart." The Producers.

Posted by borgboy 2006-02-27 18:30|| 2006-02-27 18:30|| Front Page Top

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