This is Satanic Verses all over again. I dont understand where do these bastards get off with their shit. Islam has to be the most fanatical religion ever. I know it sounds like generalising and stereotyping, but the history of this religion is proof to the fact that religious Islamic factions are waiting to issue fatwas and it simply grinds my gears that they do it and theres nothing stopping them.
They worship a human being who had a 9yr old for a wife...good lord who does that...
The govts of these countries should be doing something about this.
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They say
Islam - "talvar ki dhaar par phaeli hai"
It was rebellious right from the beginning since it challenged the status-quo. In the 600's it was new and was vigorously opposed by Christianity and Judaism and more recently Hinduism. The sword is all that remained to spread and protect it. Unfortunately, 1400 years later nothing much has changed.
On the other hand, the other major religions had a "first-mover" advantage in an untapped market!
Rites of passage for a religion:
None of this is original thought - am just quoting the far more brilliant minds who happened to bring this up. Again I say this not in an attempt to defend Islam, or to display anything within myself such as tolerance etc., but barely to introduce another angle to this conversation - and I shall begin and end it here as I am by no means trying to make this an argument or trying to play Devil's Advocate, its merely another facet in the conversation - thats all.
Whew - disclaimer over.
Islam Is A Young Religion
Religions, like people, and heroes (we'll come back to this one) must undergo the journey - the rites of passage so as to say.
These rites are documented, again by people far smarter and brighter than me...so I shall save the trouble of documenting them again. Definitely read this if you'd like to know more.
So lets assume that Salim Mansur is accurate, and that Islam is a Young Religion.
He's certainly not the first one to say so... and he won't be the last for there is some truth to the point.
Islam wasn't necessarily devised to be a new religion/challenge the status quo - it just underwent the same rites of passage - attempted assimilation with the mono-religion. Rejection by the mono-religion due to distrust/envy/politics etc. Creation of new religion, with slightly massaged rules for existance - these are the same rules that apply to the "Hero's Journey" incidentally.
As
Time Magazine points out - Islam wasn't even trying to be a separate religion - just the third sequel to a well established one, distributed to a market which rarely got exposure to this product.
Jerusalem was central to the spiritual identity of Muslims from the very beginning of their faith. When the Prophet Muhammad first began to preach in Mecca in about 612, according to the earliest biographies, which are our primary source of information about him, he had his converts prostrate themselves in prayer in the direction of Jerusalem. They were symbolically reaching out toward the Jewish and Christian God, whom they were committed to worshipping, and turning their back on the paganism of Arabia. Muhammad never believed that he was founding a new religion that canceled out the previous faiths. He was convinced that he was simply bringing the old religion of the One God to the Arabs, who had never been sent a prophet before.
Surely though a few centuries would be more than enough for a religion -
Well lets consider the
The Economist's take on "What Went Wrong With The Arab World."
The report finds that they have three major limitations - and I quote
The barrier to better Arab performance is not a lack of resources, concludes the report, but the lamentable shortage of three essentials: freedom, knowledge and womanpower.
The three restrictions/shortages that they claim the Arab World faces, are shortages that every religion everywhere has seen in some form or the other at some point in its existance, scholars argue - this is just another sign of a rite of passage.
So what is it that makes this uproar, this noise about the Danish cartoons from the Islamic World so completely irrational to the free world?
Well, lets say that the Islamic world that is NOT part of the protests and the demands for behaded Danish Cartoonists is right for a momemt. Lets assume that they are the majority of Muslims, and the fanatical few are infact the deafeningly loud noise we hear all the time -
The reason that I would lean towards their side (the allegedly non-violent majority) is
here
What makes the fanatics so powerful? Why must we look at Islam for an answer to that question - they aren't necessarily the only or even the best example of what a motivated minority can do to a nation/region.
The best example is Bush, the Republicans and the Christian lobby.
Then again - maybe they are all just fucking crazy
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