Posted on 10/02/2006 1:34:19 AM PDT by kronos77
Beirut (AsiaNews) A year ago, on 30 September 2005, in Denmark, 12 satirical cartoons about Muhammad were published, sparking a controversy that inflamed the Muslim world. Recently, we have witnessed a remake, a sort of “Cartoons no.2”, with the reaction of the Muslim world to the speech of the pope in Regensburg. These facts, like the threats against an opera of Mozart in Berlin, or against a French teacher, reveal two very worrying phenomena: the easy use of violence in Islam, together with its inability to dialogue; the West, especially Europe, as a big coward that is losing its identity.
The problem of violence of Islam cannot be put off. It also affects peace on the planet. Today, many wars in the west and in Asia are caused precisely by Muslims who want autonomy, a state for themselves. It is enough to cite Bosnia, Thailand, the Philippines, Kosovo, Kashmir, Nigeria... to say nothing of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Wherever there is a Muslim minority concentrated in an area where it becomes the majority, a separatist war is quick to break out. It should be noted that violence is practiced mostly against their fellow members of the faith, Muslims. Just look at violence in Iraq, or in Pakistan, where Sunnis and Shiites attack each other to the point of striking mosques, their most sacred places. In Algeria, in the name of the Koran and the Prophet, nearly 100,000 people were killed in recent years...
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IMO the reason muslims are incapable of dialogue is they have been brainwashed into hatred and death and murder until they are incapable of rational dialogue.
I would agree. It appears that one cannot have a rational conversation with the Muslim community. Intelligent discourse could lead to needed reform of Islam.
The religion of Islam has had no equivalent to the 21 Ecumenical Councils held by the Catholic Church. Islam is thus stuck in the 7th Century and full of contradictions and inconsistencies in its holy literature, and a well-documented penchant for violence and savage brutality.
If a muslim was capable of rational discourse, they would immediately leave the horrible belief system.
Precisely.
It is very difficult to be rational about life in general and still obey the taboo against rational examination of one's religion, in this case islam. Islam cannot withstand rational examination because it isn't rational.
In a strange way, islam's enemy isn't the infidels, or even modernity...it is reality itself and rational thought.
Hmmm... just like Nazism.
Is there a reasonable nazi? No, If he uses his brain, he would never be a nazi.
PErhaps that's why democrats seem incapable of rational discourse as well. If they could think rationally, they would immediately cease voting democrat.
And that immaturity lines up squarely with that odd sissified quality of theirs.
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