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NYT Columnist: I Hold Moderate Muslims Responsible for Terrorism, ‘To A Degree'
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In most places, no Muslims will speak out because then they too are infidels.
Think moderate Progressives.
Think moderate Progressives.
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Sisi of Egypt has said the same. That other Muslims do need to be held accountable. That they are responsible for standing up for their religion and the way they believe.
They have to be more than just vocal.
They have to be more than just vocal.
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I paint it in the same light as people who speak out against or turn in Cartels members. They operate in the same ways.
And no one is apologising for ****
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Practicing Muslim reformer..
Denial is scourge of Islam
by Irshad Manji
Tuesday August 23, 2005
republished Wednesday August 24, 2005
- ICJS Research
Denial is scourge of Islam
by Irshad Manji
Tuesday August 23, 2005
republished Wednesday August 24, 2005
- ICJS Research
"... The trouble with Islam today is that Literalism is Mainstream.
Even Moderate Muslims take the Koran as the final word of God: unfiltered, unchanged and unchangeable.
This Supremacy Complex inhibits us from asking hard questions about what happens when faith becomes dogma.
Such a path can lead only to a dead end of More Violence...
Even Moderate Muslims take the Koran as the final word of God: unfiltered, unchanged and unchangeable.
This Supremacy Complex inhibits us from asking hard questions about what happens when faith becomes dogma.
Such a path can lead only to a dead end of More Violence...
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Violent passages in the Koran and the Bible - The Boston Globe
3/08/09
3/08/09
[...]But the implications run still deeper. All faiths contain within them some elements that are considered disturbing or unacceptable to modern eyes; all must confront the problem of absorbing and reconciling those troubling texts or doctrines. In some cases, religions evolve to the point where the ugly texts so fade into obscurity that ordinary believers scarcely acknowledge their existence, or at least deny them the slightest authority in the modern world. In other cases, the troubling words remain dormant, but can return to life in conditions of extreme stress and conflict. Texts, like people, can live or die. This whole process of forgetting and remembering, of growing beyond the harsh words found in a text, is one of the critical questions that all religions must learn to address.
Faithful Muslims believe that the Koran is the inspired word of God, delivered verbatim through the prophet Mohammed. Non-Muslims, of course, see the text as the work of human hands, whether of Mohammed himself or of schools of his early followers. But whichever view we take, the Koran as it stands claims to speak in God's voice. That is one of the great DIFFERENCES between the Bible and the Koran. Even for dedicated fundamentalists, inspired Bible passages come through the pen of a venerated historical individual, whether it's the Prophet Isaiah or the Apostle Paul, and that leaves open some chance of blaming embarrassing views on that person's own prejudices. The Koran gives NO such option: For believers, Every Word in the text - however Horrendous a passage may sound to Modern ears - came Directly from God.
We don't have to range too far to find passages that Horrify. The Koran warns....."
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Faithful Muslims believe that the Koran is the inspired word of God, delivered verbatim through the prophet Mohammed. Non-Muslims, of course, see the text as the work of human hands, whether of Mohammed himself or of schools of his early followers. But whichever view we take, the Koran as it stands claims to speak in God's voice. That is one of the great DIFFERENCES between the Bible and the Koran. Even for dedicated fundamentalists, inspired Bible passages come through the pen of a venerated historical individual, whether it's the Prophet Isaiah or the Apostle Paul, and that leaves open some chance of blaming embarrassing views on that person's own prejudices. The Koran gives NO such option: For believers, Every Word in the text - however Horrendous a passage may sound to Modern ears - came Directly from God.
We don't have to range too far to find passages that Horrify. The Koran warns....."
(some Specific Verses then elucidated)
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