Tolerance Or Dhimmitude
Tolerance Or Dhimmitude
In yesterday's Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore wrote an illuminating op-ed piece in response to a visit to Pakistan by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams. Every Westerner who is at all unclear on what the concept of mainstream orthodox Islam entails should read it.
What this means is that all Muslims are what we call "fundamentalist" in a way that no Christian, not even the most literalist, can quite be. One man, the Prophet, was given the perfect truth in one form, and so the truth, and the form, are absolute. To question the status of the Koran as described above is to insult God. ...
It occurs to me that the Archbishop, and other Western church leaders, are indeed promoting a Western political agenda, but it is almost the opposite of the one he described. The agenda - and, in the case of the Anglican Church, this is very closely co-ordinated with the British Government - is to try to placate. Sorry about the Crusades, sorry about George Bush, sorry, sorry, sorry, they say, in the hope that Muslims will start to say sorry, too. But where is the evidence that this pre-emptive self-abasement is working? The grim fact is that the development of Christian/Muslim official dialogue has coincided with much greater Muslim persecution of other faiths than 30 years ago.
If you want to learn about the Religion of Peace, you need to start from the foundation, which is built upon the nonnegotiable premise that the Koran must be viewed as the literal, immutable word of God—in stark contrast to how most Jews and Christians view their scripture.
Religious literalism in its most minimal form can have disastrous results in a free society. When it is on the scale of an entire world religion, the ramifications on a global level are astronomically worse in measure.
Posted by Patrick at December 11, 2005 02:23 PM
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khalil zarrouk
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Dear Sir,
Shalom and hello and Salam Aleikum. I read your nice article, literalism is definitely destruction to the world if anything is taken as religious literlism. But let me remind you in that Mohd started his message by pronouncing his CV.'s by saying Salam Aliekum, believing in Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses and Isaaq and and just go ahead and name all your Biblical prophets.(Please read Jesus Gosepel in Arabic and see how many times this Salam Alikum is mentioned word for word by The Lord Jesus.
The Quaran itself is a resume of the Torah almost literally. The Biblical Kings Mohd called Prophets and are revered more by Moslem nation than the Jews themselves.
In short I am repeating myself the tenth time that Islam is the second edition of Jeudism and continuation of the same ideology and same belief. It is the new prototype of Jeudiasm.
What I would recommend is to abandon any ritual that hurts others and focus on things that are of great help to humanity.
The Church donates , Moslems donate, Jews donate, Hindoes donate and Budhists donate everyhting not spiritual.
Why we donate because each one of these religions wants to prove that his religion the best not even better.
So there are good facets in religion and we should compete in this respect. We give more help to the poor, we feed more the hungry etc..
Then and only then religions will be tolerated and competitive in doing what is good.
Posted by: khalil zarrouk on December 12, 2005 04:12 AM
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Tolerance Or Dhimmitude
In yesterday's Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore wrote an illuminating op-ed piece in response to a visit to Pakistan by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams. Every Westerner who is at all unclear on what the concept of mainstream orthodox Islam entails should read it.
If you want to learn about the Religion of Peace, you need to start from the foundation, which is built upon the nonnegotiable premise that the Koran must be viewed as the literal, immutable word of God—in stark contrast to how most Jews and Christians view their scripture.
Religious literalism in its most minimal form can have disastrous results in a free society. When it is on the scale of an entire world religion, the ramifications on a global level are astronomically worse in measure.
Posted by Patrick at December 11, 2005 02:23 PM