Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Hirsi Ali, the Right's New Hero
There are no Christians who want the bible to replace the constitution in any Western society? Is she blind!?
"Democracy is evil and contrary to God's law."
-Kent Hovind, anti-evolution propagandist
"I think democracy is the greatest system on earth, but that's it, it's just on earth and ultimately designed to destroy itself, because we have to give everyone equal freedom and ultimately that's going to destroy us. A perfect world is not going to be perfect until Jesus is truly lord."
-Becky Fischer, the chick who runs the Jesus Camp
She says that Islam calls for the murder of gays and adulterers and that "all this is in the Qur'an." Horseshit. None of it is in the Qur'an. The death penalty for adulterers was added later by Umar ibn al-Khattāb, one of Muhammed's followers. According to Reza Aslan, "the stoning to death of adulterers, a punishment which has absolutely no foundation whatsoever in the Quran but which Umar justified by claiming it had originally been part of the Revelation and had somehow been left out of the authorized text." [emphasis mine]
Umar was a notorious misogynist who was even forbidden to marry the sister of one of Muhammed's wives, because of how he was known to treat women. People who believe that adultery is punishable by death according to the Quran, be they Muslims themselves or some ignorant Westerners who want to make Islam look evil, have been lied to.
For someone who was raised a Muslim, she doesn't seem to know much about Islam. It's scary to think how many Muslims have the same perception of Islam as she does.
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Well how many Christians are ignorant of their own religion? How many have never read the entire book, or understood the cultural context of each passage.
How many think that over the last 2000-6000 years, there hasn't even been 1 single edit/insertion/deletion of a passage?
Heck, the Catholic and Protestant bibles differ by something like seven books.
Whether Muslim or Christian, some of the beliefs attributed to their respective holy books are flat out wrong. So it's easy to see why someone would be mistaken.
It would however help her argument if she attacked what is a perversion of the religion rather than attacking the religion.
She also says that Islam "unreformed, unchallenged, is a monolith." But it's not going unreformed, there are several reform movements and it certainly isn't unchallenged, but even if it weren't unreformed or unchallenged, the differences between Shi'a, Sunnis and Sufis are so vast that I don't know how anybody could see Islam as a monolith.
Alright, you got me there.
Though I'm ignorant to the differences, I do know they exists. There is no excuse for someone raised Muslim to not know there is a difference.
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