Muslims are Hypocrites! NOT! (first post to my own, brand new blog)

Ortho Opinions ^ | February 16, 2006 | DNY (The_Reader_David)

[The_Reader_David]

Muslims are hypocrites! NOT!

It seems fitting to start a blog that will most likely deal a lot with religion and politics with a topic that spans both.

One comment one reads and hears a lot in right-wing commentary on 'the Cartoon Wars' are 'Muslims are such hypocrites!'

I'd like to take exception.

Devout Muslims, like devout Jews or devout Christians of any confession, take seriously their belief that their religion is true, a reflection of the one, existing God and grounded in His decisive self-revelation, the Qu'ran. I, too, believe that my religion--Orthodox Christianity--is true and grounded in God's decisive self-revelation, His Incarnation in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, even as Jews believe their religion is true and grounded in God's decisive self-revelation, the Torah.

The alleged hypocrisy of Muslims: that they happily produce and print really vile cartoons mocking Jews, visual presentations of the blood-libel and the like, while they explode into violence when Danish cartoonists, whose work is mild by the standards of American political charicature, hint at an arguable connection between their prophet and violence, is not hypocrisy. Rather, it is a colossal arrogance which stems from their self-assurance in their faith, and their religion's lack of regard for persons.

Muslims still believe that "error has no rights." Any other religion, being 'in error' according to their lights, is a proper target for mockery and vilification, while their faith, being 'true', must be defended against blasphemy at all costs--even, apparently, death and destruction of property of those whose only connection with the alleged blasphemers is being citizens of the same country, or even merely being other non-Muslims.

Westerners, of whatever religious tradition, secularists included, are inheritors of the anthropology of the Greeks, "Man is the measure of all things," of the Hebrews, "Come let Us make Man in Our image and likeness," and of Christ, "In as much as ye do it to the least of these, ye do it unto Me." The exalted status of the human person, whether conceived in pagan, Jewish or Christian terms, has no analog in Islam: submission to the will of Allah, the text of the Qu'ran is all. There is no symmetry between persons, no status worthy of regard, simply on the basis of their humanity: the Muslim is superior to the non-Muslim, period.

This is no hypocrisy: it is inhuman arrogance.

Alas, even guided by the commandment of Christ, "Love your enemies, and pray for those that persecute you," and His example of self-sacrifice, it took the horrible 'Wars of Religion' in the wake of the Western reformation before Christians generally came to agree with the words of the Surah Al-Baqara: “Let there be no compulsion in religion."

We must pray that a yet more horrible war will not be needed to overturn the centuries of triumphalist Qu'ranic interpretation by which the warlike Medinan surahs with verses like "When you meet the infidels, smite their necks," are used as the basis for creating compulsion in religion: compulsion which gave the Hindu Kush its name, compulsion which created the Jannisary corps, compulsion now being applied in hope of obliging Christians and secularists alike to abide by Muslim pieties regarding depictions of Mohammed.

[The_Reader_David]

The first post to my own blog. Visit it after I've had a chance to post more!

[isthisnickcool]

It seems fitting to start a blog that will most likely deal a lot with religion and politics with a topic that spans both.

That's a first for the Internet.... /sarcasm off

[Publius6961]

Good luck talking to yourself.
I have no desire to visit with anyone who would, under present world conditions, unconsciously and bubbly-ly consider islam and other religions as "equivalent".

But that's just me. Actually, I abhor blogs generally. With few and rare exception, the refuge of the ignorant delusional.

[SoothingDave]

Not too bad. Good luck with your venture.

Good point. Muslims would only be "hypocritical" if they held forth the virtues of the free press and free expression. They don't.

SD

[ConservativeMind]

The hypocrite quote to which you probably most refer is the interview with Alan Dershowitz. I, along with several other FReepers, noted they are not being hypocritical, but in fact are frighteningly consistent.

See this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574433/posts

[Eastbound]

"We must pray that a yet more horrible war will not be needed . . . "

Seems to me a 'more horrible war' has already started. Pray for how to win it quickly and decisively and how to deal with the remaining aliens and their culture after it's over.

I recommend total isolation and quarantine for the survivors. Let them refine their culture apart from the civilized world where they will be unable to offer up infidels for their blood sacrifices. East of Eden somewhere. A 'Cain' sanction.

[The_Reader_David]

"bubbly-ly??"

I guess I hate infelicitous neologisms as much as you hate blogs.

The point of highlighting parallels was to sharpen the inequivalence between Islam and proper religions. I guess for you it didn't work.