I know that you get annoyed with FReepers who point out that Islam is bad, but do you ever get annoyed with FReepers who jump on a thread, without reading the article, just to sing the praises of Islam? Or do you only get annoyed with those of us who point out how wrong they are?
What I get annoyed with is FReepers who just jump in to announce, usually without any sign of having read the article, "Islam is bad" --- and that's it, as if they had imparted some revelation.
What I'm looking for, as a poster, is some reflection on the posted article.
In this case, the author, Passarlay, writes of the horrible atrocities committed in Pashtun culture, by his own family even, and the hideous danger from the Taliban and the smugglers too (talk about a world without hope..!)
But most tantalizingly, in the words of the article, "He also, quite uncomfortably, talks about his religious and philosophical journey from East to West."
It hints at a "religious journey," but the article doesn't talk about his becoming Christian or some such transformation. Of course his book might have gotten more into that, but this article doesn't expand on it.
So I'm interested in what people think about that: a religious or philosophical transformation that could save the soul of a man spiritually brutalized from earliest childhood --- like Passarlay.