Karen Armstrong, Islam, and Intolerance

contentions ^ | 7.23.2007 | Daniel Johnson

[Contentions]

Writing in Saturday’s Guardian, Karen Armstrong, a popular historian of comparative religion, describes how she was invited by the Malaysian government last month to give two public lectures. On arriving in Kuala Lumpur, however, she was “surprised” to discover that this same government had banned three of her books as “incompatible with peace and social harmony.”

She does not mention the fact that the government in question is an Islamist one, which relentlessly persecutes the 40 percent of Malays who are non-Muslims. This is in spite of the fact that the Malaysian constitution, while establishing Islam as Malaysia’s official religion, also guarantees that “other religions may be practised in peace and harmony”—the same phrase that was used as an excuse to suppress Ms. Armstrong’s books.

[sageb1]

Hah! Couldn’t happen to a nicer Muslim apologist.

[sageb1]

I probably should have phrased that differently. Apologist for Islam would be better.

[goldstategop]

Liberals like Karen Armstrong don't want their illusions about Islam disturbed. They're capable of completely disregarding and ignoring facts that puncture the deception. So there's one thing both liberalism and Islam have in common: they have a need to censor anything of which they disapprove.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Paperdoll]

I prefer Bridgette Gabriel’s version.

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