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2006-06-18 Great White North

Divided loyalties: Two mythical moderate Muslims, observed

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Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-18 17:55|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 According to the "two nation theory" that actually produced the Pakistani state, muslims are a separate nation, with their own culture and history. They cannot coexist with other impure faiths and must have their own state.

Posted by john 2006-06-18 19:15|| 2006-06-18 19:15|| Front Page Top

#2 IT's nice to see that some Muslims are finally getting it.

Sharia is a lose-lose situation. The infidels lose, but so do the Muslims.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-06-18 19:53|| 2006-06-18 19:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Kanwar, a devout Muslim, says he has essentially been excommunicated by Calgary's mosques because he is too tolerant of others.

Waitaminnit. We've been told, over and over, that Muslims don't pass judgement on who is a good Muslim and who isn't. We've been told they can't exclude the extremists because there's no mechanism in Islam to do so. Of course, we've simultaneously learned of the dozens of divisions within Islam, each of which considers the other little better than animals.

And we've been told over and over that it's just a small number of extremists, that most Muslims in the West are interested in being part of the West, that they just want to get along. We've been told that there's no divided loyalties, no conflict between being (in this case) Canadian and being Muslim.

But doesn't this story make a lie of all that?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-06-18 20:17|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-06-18 20:17|| Front Page Top

#4 'Because the taxes I pay are putting food on your table as are the taxes of the so-called "infidels.' "

Call it an Islamist intention.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-06-18 21:13|| 2006-06-18 21:13|| Front Page Top

#5 They probably consider it jizya - the tax paid by non-muslims. It is ok for a muslim to be supported by jizya.

Qur'an 9:29:

Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden that which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

Posted by john 2006-06-18 21:35|| 2006-06-18 21:35|| Front Page Top

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