Kalam
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- Mar 5, 2009
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I don't hate you. I quite dislike the interpretations of Islam and I fear the extensions of Militant Islam towards the West and Israel.
I see you applying softness to the acts of Muslims when posted on this forum. I see you divert posts on the subject with out of context questions about how others would feel about the events if those events were applied to yet other events, etc.
Then we're off on those other events.
I think your belief is backwards and in need of reformist interpretations. You do not. We are diametrically opposed in this.
I do not think Islam is inherently evil. I have told you that many times. I do think that the interpretations have been taken to evil propositions.
I'll point this kind of thing out when I see it and it's all over the world. What I won't do is argue semantics and scriptural positions.
Shahbaz Bhatti (a Christian Moderate) is dead.
I do not accept sentimentality disclaimers. Reasons notwithstanding.
I don't see the purpose of discussing current events without considering the ideological motivations that seem to underlie them. You argue that the followers of Islam are perpetually engaged in 'border wars' that are subject to 'ebb' and 'flow', but what use is there in discussing the behavior of an entire religious community if you insist on divorcing their actions from their professed beliefs?
Every action of a person that isn't purely reflexive has its impetus in some sort of belief. If we insist that discussions of beliefs and scripture and things that you associate with the philosophical realm are useless, our understanding of events is one-dimensional.
I'd like to add that obfuscation and all of the other -tions are never goals of mine when I post here. Most or many of my posts have to do with my posts have something to do with my religion's teachings and I must approach that type of discussion with total honesty. If your perception is that I'm failing to do so please let me know.