[Wicket]

Professor at Reed College, home of a preponderance of the lunatic left. Enjoy - sarcasm alert

[steve-b]

"This is a remarkable thing," says Steven M. Wasserstrom, who teaches religion at Reed. "To do what used to be more or less routine liberal theology -- well, for Jews and Christians, it's still not that problematic -- but to do it as a Muslim requires a lot of courage."

Well, duh.

[Puppage]

He is smart, articulate, thoughtful and innovative

Aaaaaw, SO smart. SO thoughtful.

Was he SO thoughful as to condem the attacks on 9/11?

Some how, I doubt it.

[Nachum]

Opens the mind-

by chopping it off at the neck...

[Publius6961]

Americans often don't realize that Islam, like Christianity, is incredibly diverse in its expressions, he says. Christians across the world don't agree on every social issue, and neither do Muslims. . .

If his target audience is the madrassas, and children under 14, I predict huge success for his writings.

Otherwise, he is wasting his time.

The Muslim Mass Murderers have no religious peers in the last 800 years. Certainly not in the last 20 years anywhere. No other religion can make that claim.

You can't sugar coat islam effectively when dealing with informed adults.

[twigs]

history of Islam in the United States since Colonial times. . .

I'd be interested to hear what he has to say about this. I noticed that the group from FL who wished to blow up the Sears bldg was a Moorish National Group which believes that Moroccans were in the US before Europeans. You can't just dismiss this stuff. I do genealogy in Virginia and I had been reading some of this on the internet well before 9/11. Little did I realize then that the foundation was being laid for US/World domination. Muslims who write about Islam from that period should be carefully evaluated.

[horse_doc]

I don't like talking about Islam in political terms

Well, Mohammed sure didn't mind. In fact, he was pretty keen on the political aspects of Islam.

For an Islamic scholar to ignore the political system implicit in Islam, is to brand himself as being very unserious about his profession.

[CT]

Reed College. Namesake of John Reed, a Communist buried at the Kremlin wall.

Portland:

[jackieaxe]

It is wrong, he says, to draw conclusions about Islam based only on one reading of the Quran, on the statements of a few Muslim leaders or on the culture of one group of believers.

I've made my judgments based on Islamic actions in Munich in 1972, on the action the Iranian Revolutionary government who illegally took over the US Embassy, Sharia Law which prescribes stoning to death for adultery and homosexuality, the Taliban killing people for getting hair cuts, the first World Trade Center bombing, the shoe bomber, the London Subway, the Spanish railroad train, the blowing up of innocent civilians in Israel in Allah's name, the cutting off of Daniel Pearl's head, the cutting off of Nicholas Berg's head, the cartoon reaction, and finally but not lastly, the brutal attack of innocents on 9/11. All done in Allah's name. I didn't make my judgment of Islam based on a few dopey words from the Qua ran or the words of a few, but rather the actions of many against innocents in Allah's name.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

"It is wrong, he says, to draw conclusions about Islam based only on one reading of the Quran, on the statements of a few Muslim leaders or on the culture of one group of believers."

Likewise, it is wrong to draw conclusions about Islam from a mere several scores of televised beheadings, thousands of terror incidents with tens of thousands of civilian casualties, hundreds of stonings, the chopping off by axe of hundreds of hands, hundreds of honor killings, parades of people whipping themselves bloody with chains, the glorification of suicide to the point where it's the national pastime of an entire quasi-country, and a culture which has given the world utterly nothing since its inception but suffering, war, torture and death.

Hey, OK, I like to keep an open mind.

[MadLibDisease]

I hope this putz goes to Somalia, the new islamic ruling class said if you have a goatee to shave it off or they'll kill you.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"I don't like talking about Islam in political terms," he says. "

Well then he is not a "true" Muslim, since there is no separation of religion and politics in Islam.

And as long as he identifies himself a Muslim he honors a false prophet and false god, and therefore should be suspect in all areas of judgment.

[VOA]

"Professor at Reed College, home of a preponderance of the lunatic left."

Interesting...this prof and Reed College haven't made it to the level of
topic heading at David Horowitz's great site.

I've met one science prof from Reed. Amazingly seemed to be a rational sort,
but then it was an emeritus prof...maybe last of the sane to retire from the place.

A list of the other Academic Asylums (click on 'em for profiles):
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/viewGroups.asp?type=aca-i

[Valin]

Americans often don't realize that Islam, like Christianity, is incredibly diverse in its expressions, he says. Christians across the world don't agree on every social issue, and neither do Muslims. . .

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