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| The Islam Conundrum |
| 2006-10-22 |
| A dictionary defines religion as, “The expression of man’s belief and reverence for a superhuman power recognized as the creator and governor of the universe.” By this definition Islam qualifies as religion, and so do numberless other faiths. A definition this broad is ambiguous and must be further defined with the specific tenets and practices of the belief. Simply because someone or some people say that they believe in a superhuman deity and revere him, the belief is accorded the privileged status of religion? Christ emphatically proclaimed, “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” But to this day, there are those who still believe that the Christ was a mere social revolutionary. In the case of Islam there is no ambiguity at all. The mosque and the state were one and the same from the very start. During his lifetime, Muhammad embodied in his person all three branches of worldly secular governance—the legislative, the judiciary and the executive—as well as the religious domain. Sadly enough, instead of Muslims marching out of the suffocating swamps of submission to the meadow of liberty, Allah’s faithful aim to drag the rest of humanity into the deadly Islamic quagmire. Islam may have been an improvement to the life of the savages that roamed the Arabian desserts some 1400 years ago. The 21st century world, in spite of all its problems and challenges, is not willing to surrender to the clearly failed and failing Islamic experiment. |
| Posted by:SR-71 |
| #2 ...instead of Muslims marching out of the suffocating swamps of submission to the meadow of liberty, AllahÂ’s faithful aim to drag the rest of humanity into the deadly Islamic quagmire. So long as Islam embraces submission, there is no separation of church and state, and basic human freedoms are ignored there will always be a clash between Islam and Western democracies. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-10-22 21:10 |
| #1 "Islam may have been an improvement to the life of the savages that roamed the Arabian desserts some 1400 years ago" -I think that's debatable. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-10-22 18:05 |