Posted on 05/14/2011 1:14:46 PM PDT by ahungrywriter
As Islamists condemn the French ban on face-covering attire in public, it is worth noting that some of the strongest words in support of the law — and in opposition to the burqa and niqab — actually have come from Western Muslims. A few recent highlights:
(Excerpt) Read more at islamist-watch.org ...
All Allah’s children just want to be free.
How about just banning Muslims, period?
Never gonna happen here.. You know why... There is a thing called the 1st Amendment..
That protects religion. Islam isn’t a religion.
It gets almost no press, but there is a significant “protestant” Muslim movement, that is seeking to reform and modernize Islamic practices.
They are approaching it in two ways. First is to attack non-Islamic cultural practices that are not specified in the Koran, but this must be done through the “Tafsir”, a huge body of commentary and explication of what the Koranic verses mean, to back them up.
But there are also lots of twists and turns. For example, there are some statements that Mohammed made in the early days that he later contradicted. This is explained in the Tafsir as “nasikh”, which means it superseded the earlier statements, so though they are still in the Koran, they are null and void.
And the reformists want to take advantage of this, especially where Islamists use the former verses to justify their actions.
The other technique of the reformists is re-emphasis. Instead of emphasizing violence, terrorism and death; they put the Koranic emphasis on Mohammed’s statements about peace, prosperity and kindness.
Back in the days of the schism of Christianity between Catholicism and Protestantism, both sides pretended favoritism of God, and were murderous over truly unimportant details. Eventually this was overcome by emphasizing those elements of Christianity seen today, while de-emphasizing those that had been used to justify war and murder.
But this takes a long time. Hopefully, Muslims around the world will eventually see the value in peaceful coexistence, embracing this “reformed” Islam as a better way of life.
Well according the to US Government it is.. So it is not going to happen.
Unless we get a handle on our muslim problem it's going to have to happen.
After a half dozen bombings or so, something is going to give.
One only has to look at how quickly they got a big presence in Detroit to see that it isn't far off either.
Don’t be so sure. Never say never, right?
My point is that once it’s found out that burka clad muslims are the ones bombing our subways, trains and planes, all helll is going to break loose.
Watch who you’re calling a dork you gobshite*. The prevailing opinion here is Islam is not a ‘’religion’’ and there is more than enough documentation everywhere to prove just what Islam really is. You want to peddle the ‘’tolerance’’ crap take it elsewhere, it’s not welcomed here. >> * ‘’gobshite’’ is Irish for ‘’sh!tmouth’’ or one who speaks the same, get it?
There is one thing that I peddle... The Constitution is a suicide pact. I’m not a fan of Islam, but a ban is never going to happen, so you might as well live in the real world.
No, the Constitution isn’t a ‘’suicide pact’’. Not by a long shot. And I am living the real world, every damn day dude, every damn day.
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