From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 11:50:21 MDT
Omard stated:
<<
> > hardly. most practicing muslims are sunni; and sunni's are permitted
> (encouraged and required) to read and interpret the koran to the best of their
abilities. And while fatwah's are binding in the sense that they
represent the current consensus in regards to the correct interpretation of a
surrah or hadith, there are in fact several schools of interpretation... each
muslim has his or her own preference for which school of thought most
closely parallels his or her particular interpretation of the religion..>>
This does not explain or justify (I will exclude Shia for brevity) the
Nigerian antagonisms because of Sharia. Indonesian Muslims, anti-Christian,
anti-Aussie attacks, the oppression and war against Chrisitans and Animists in Sudan,
which has cost 2 million lives, and the world is silent about, the Salafists
in North Africa, the Wahabbists and 9-11, the Taleban in Afghanistan, (I will
ignore the Israel situation for brevity too), the war against the Indians from
Sunii Pakistan, the attack on the USS Cole, the Khobar towers, the attack on
the Trade Towers in 93..on and on. Whatever principles Islam stands for, its
not living up to the better ones. It isn't the religion, but the social culture
which it tolerates.
Almost all religions have these unfortunate qualities in them, but right now
Islam has been cursed with a fanaticism, (funded by oil) based on the
insecurities which modern science and culture have brought us. We cannot seem to
continue to do things in the same old ways of tribe and tradition, and the US with
its culture undermines the old ways of thinking. The trouble is with both
Christianity and Islam, is that if one goes onto a new path, one is
psychologically threatened with oblivion after death, or an eternal hell. The better path,
has been suggested by only one physicist, and one robotics engineer (a
polymath), but nobody else is interested in this answer. But (for brevity) that is
another thread, and perhaps some other (imaginary) mailing list.
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