Posted on 07/25/2006 2:05:22 AM PDT by beckett
Karen Armstrong has been described as “one of the world's most provocative and inclusive thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world”. Armstrong’s efforts to be “inclusive” are certainly “provocative”, though generally for reasons that are less than edifying. In 1999, the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Los Angeles gave Armstrong an award for media “fairness”. What follows might cast light on how warranted that recognition is, and indeed on how the MPAC chooses to define fairness.
In one of her baffling Guardian columns, Armstrong argues that, “It is important to know who our enemies are… By making the disciplined effort to name our enemies correctly, we will learn more about them, and come one step nearer, perhaps, to solving the… problems of our divided world.” Yet elsewhere in the same piece, Armstrong maintains that Islamic terrorism must not be referred to as such. “Jihad”, we were told, “is a cherished spiritual value that, for most Muslims, has no connection with violence.”
(Excerpt) Read more at butterfliesandwheels.com ...
Armstrong won't acknowledge she's being beheaded until the knife saws through her trachea.
What a useful idiot.
What I want to understand about muslim terrorists I want to learn by reading their obituaries
Is this woman for real???
She'll believe anything.
Karen Armstrong
According to Armstrong, Mohammed was, above all, a “peacemaker” who “respected” Jews and other non-Muslims. Yet nowhere in the Qur’an and Sunnah does Mohammed refer to non-Muslims as in any way deserving of respect as equals. Quite the opposite, in fact. Apparently, we are to ignore 1400 years of Islamic history contradicting Armstrong’s view, and to ignore the contents of the Qur’an and the explicitly anti-Semitic ‘revelations’ of Islam’s founder.
Whoa, after seeing her photo, I'd say she's in serious need of a burkha...
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
In exactly the same way that a horse's rearmost sphincter has no connection to the deposits that the horse leaves here and there as it goes about its day.
Armstrong never says a word about the plight of women in Islam, and neither does this article criticizing her.
Both have failed.
If you talk about Islam, and not talk about women, you are missing the point.
LOL!
Wherever others include islam, islam turns around and destroys the others.
BTTT
Well, this is not as bad as what American academics do to Hinduism. Using Freudian analysis they argue that the blue elephant god Ganesh's trunk is a phallic symbol. LOL
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