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At a Muslim conference in Long Beach last year, he suggested that mosques adopt a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gays. Afterward, he was accosted by a local imam who accused him of poisoning Muslim youth. “I told him, ‘Quite frankly, you’re going to be irrelevant in 10 years,’ “ Webb says.

What a fool. He's imagining that Islam is somehow going to "liberalize" when in fact it is only going to get more intolerant. Because if Muslims wanted to live a tolerant life, they wouldn't be Muslims. The great appeal of Islam is not its piety or its devotion to God; there are plenty of other religious experiences that can supply that. It's the Herrenvolk aspect of being part of the Ummah; it's being superior.

The appeal of Islam in comparison to Christianity is that it takes away all the "messiness" of Christianity. It takes away the concept of a loving God, of a Trinity, of a God who can become man etc. etc.

And it reduces it to just follow the rules, pray 5 times in the exact same way, bow, bend, touch your **** and prostrate exactly the same and remember that you have no free will, there is no such thing as a scientific law because Allah recreates everything in every minute, so what is 10' now can be 193' in the next instance, Inshallah.

It is utter stoppage of your brain, which can be liberating as you don't need to think

I must add in that this is only true for Sunni Islam (80% of Islam), especially Wahabbism and to some extent for Shias (12ers more) -- Ismailis and Bohras and Dawood Bohris seem to have some lee-way but all are ruled by hereditary Aga Khans or Syednas respectively.

I'm not terribly sure of Ibadis or Ahmadiyyas and I know that Druze, Allawis are not even considered Moslem and their religions include a lot of either Gnosticism or Platonic ideas