Overdosing on Islam

The NY Times ^ | May 12, 2004 | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

[Paul_B]

Kristoff does some very nice reporting here - and some very idiotic commentary at the end. Perhaps his one good column for the year?

[nuconvert]

"America is only Baby Satan. We have Big Satan right here at home."

LOL!

[F14 Pilot]

Agreed!

[thoughtomator]

Hey, we could get rid of Islam completely in 25 years... just let the Islamic world have Islamic government in the meantime!

[Bahbah]

LOL, that's a very good thought, omator.

[Poundstone]

"Kristoff does some very nice reporting here - and some very idiotic commentary at the end. Perhaps his one good column for the year?"

No. He's pretty much a left-wing idiot. I've never read even one of his columns that was truly worth reading. Kristoff replaced the NYT's Anthony Lewis (who's "At Home Abroad" column was simply a piece of crap) about two years ago. I'd say that Kristoff is even worse than Lewis.

[Paul_B]

I don't disagree, based on what I've read by Kristoff, but this column was refreshingly good for him until he added tried to apply the situation in Iran to the situation here. Islamic culture in many ways is the mirror image of the West, and very generally what's bad there is good here and vice versa - a distinction the brain-dead post-modernists fail to make.

[Savage Beast]

"This regime is the very opposite of Islamic government."

Think again, Ashkan.

[Savage Beast]

"We had reports here and there that people of Iran, mostly youth generation, are converting to Christianity or Zoroastrianism."

That, of course, is what Iran needs--a powerful, sweeping religious counter-revolution. Anything would be better than what they've got now.

[F14 Pilot]

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[F14 Pilot]

This is my take on what that guy, Ashkan, said above.

Islamic form of government is not good for sure and it is a theocratic thing but to some people there in the Middle East, real Islam is different with what their governments offer now.
I think, he meant that Islamic Regime of Iran is far away from real Islam.

[Savage Beast]

Taken in this context, "real Islam" is not Islam at all but some other religion--perhaps Christianity.

The Islamic regime of Iran is Islam. The goal of Islam is the establishment of a world-wide theocracy with the Koran as the only constitution and the shariah as international law, i.e. the Islamic regime of Iran on a global level.

[F14 Pilot]

I was talking about the Middle East and how they believe.

[liberallarry]

The author is a jerk. But even jerks can be right sometimes.

[ThanhPhero]

Iran is starting to resemble Cuba. We keep hearing "pretty soon" and all we get is status quo.

[freedom44]

You're right - in fact it may take 5 years or more, but it'll eventually happen - no one knows how or when but it will.

No one is doubting the will part, but the when part is the question.

And it better be before the Mullahs get a hold of the nukes - otherwise they're there to stay.