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Posted on 07/12/2019 6:48:06 PM PDT by robowombat
In America, we have a situation sometimes that sin has a much bigger bark than it has bite. If it weren’t for very loud mouthed “pride” groups, homosexuality in the USA would be down in the noise (pardon the pun). That’s the risk side of our First Amendment.
Because people have been hounded out of researching history with respect to things like Islam (either ideal or practiced).
Mohammed alternately blew hot and cold, and if his nicer sounding utterances were isolated and we thought that was all there was to Islam, we’d consider Islam quite harmless among world faiths rather than one of the greatest potential impetuses to hotheadedness on the planet.
The danger in cases like Omid is that they are pollyanna about what goes on in the rest of “Islam” around the globe. While not drumming up war themselves, they also lull. Useful idiot, as the term goes.
The wars commended in the OT were specific ones directed by the Lord for conquests and defense for the sake of His glorification in the Hebrew people. The OT never contained an open ended invitation to war as we know it in the Koran. If it did, the land of Israel would have been considered open ended, not bounded.
Not too surprisingly given human nature, the Hebrew people tried getting involved in wars of vanity. God didn’t bless that.
If you’re a muslim and not pursuing jihad you’re not doing it right.
I lived there and worked there. It was pleasant for me as an ex patriot oil field worker. However Omid Safi is a damn liar. If one violates the tenets of the Koran, Koranic justice is swift and sure. It is ugly.
Mohammedanism is rotten at its core and at its core is Mohammed.
Yes, but, respectfully:
It is A.D. 622: In the Year of the Lord, 622.
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I thank the real God for so many Muslims doing it wrong.
Pretty much every major university in the US has an Islamic Studies department funded by Saudi Arabia.
Omid Safi is an American Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, where he is the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center
The Saudis are making sure that our youth are indoctrinated in the wondrous benefits to mankind that are supplied by Mohammedans and the evils of Israel.
war plan, war plan, war plan, Did anyone here the interview by wilcow with tommy robinson? The UK set him up and jailed him for speaking out to protect invader Pakistani gang rapes of young English girls in towns overrun by fun loving protected muslims. They first pass laws to protect them, ours was piggybacked on the anti-Semitism bill
Knowing Omid, I am sure some of his statements are out of context. He truly is a peaceful man.
Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition
This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations
At a time when the association of Islam with violence dominates headlines, this beautiful collection offers us a chance to see a radically different face of the Islamic tradition. It traces a soaring, poetic, popular tradition that celebrates love for both humanity and the Divine as the ultimate path leading humanity back to God.
Safi brings together for the first time the passages of the Qur’an sought by the Muslim sages, the mystical sayings of the Prophet, and the teachings of the path of “Divine love.” Accurately and sensitively translated by leading scholar of Islam Omid Safi, the writings of Jalal al‑Din Rumi can now be read alongside passages by Kharaqani, ‘Attar, Hafez of Shiraz, Abu Sa‘id‑e Abi ’l‑Khayr, and other key Muslim mystics. For the millions of readers whose lives have been touched by Rumi’s poetry, here is a chance to see the Arabic and Persian traditions that produced him.
I own the book and gave read it.
The words are very parallel to the teachings of Jesus who taught us that Love is the most important commandment.
“Dignity” of human life?
Perhaps that Duke professor has never seen that rather infamous LiveLeak video from a couple years back, where a screaming woman was publicly, and gruesomely beheaded in the middle of a parking lot in Mecca? She was screaming “Haram! Haram!” as she was forced to the ground, and then let out a final scream as the sword came down.
Two hackings, just like a butcher or a chef taking a cleaver to a particularly troublesome cut of meat. Yeah, I saw a *LOT* of respect for the “dignity of human life” right there.
The Moslem Conquest (of India)
The Mohammedan Conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within. [continues at the link]ML/NJ
Islam has NEVER been AND NEVER WILL BE “. . . harmless among world faiths!”
Islam is an evil death cult, responsible for in excess of 270,000,000 non-Moslem deaths since AD 622. I don’t believe there is any count on the number of Moslems killed by Moslems since then.
“I know that Omid is a pacifist.”
That may be so, but all I can say is beware of “Taqiyya!”
Yes, by my math also.
Did you read the article I sent you?
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