You think that Islam is Evil…..
So what?
Let me inform you of something.
I do not care!
If you think that Islam is evil then that is your problem. As we all love the freedom of expression, you have a right to your views and I have the right to mine. Moreover, my view on this matter is that anyone who thinks that Islam is evil possesses the intellectual powers of a perianal abscess.
I think if I were to hold a reasonable discussion with a perianal abscess, I would get a more intelligent discourse than with many of these so-called “Islam experts”. If they were at least 1 % honest about their level of knowledge, level of study or the real reasons for their hate I might have taken them seriously.Unfortunately they are for the most part disingenuous on all these points. Many have no “real” knowledge, have never studied Islam from a Muslim scholar or any scholar for that matter and the real reasons for their hatred were not the events of September 2001 but are woven into the very fabric of Western societies and culture. For the masses, Islam started in 2001 but for the “Islam experts” it has been going for at least 1400 years. The only difference is that now people are more sophisticated in the way that they express this hate. They couch the discourse in the language of freedom, democracy and human rights but the underlying motives have been, are and will always be the same a hatred for a religion that has been historically considered evil. Whether it be the Christian Crusades of the Holy Land or European Imperialists or more recent moves into civilising Islam and Muslims the underlying current has been always the same that Islam is evil it makes Muslims backward and violent.
I remember hearing a little while ago a speech given by the retired head of the Anglican Church Archbishop Carey. He said (and I am paraphrasing here of course) that Muslims have not contributed anything to human advancement for the last 500 years. The implication being that Islam stagnates the development of Muslim societies. As a humble person in no way do I want to insult or contradict the former archbishop but I think that the reason for this stagnation is rather different than to the one he mentions or eludes to.
It is true that Muslim societies have for the most part stagnated for around the last 500 years. If his statement can be taken as being the “Gospel Truth” on this matter then it would also be true that Islam would not have allowed for any type of advancement during its whole history not just the last 500 years. This is obviously not true as Muslim societies were far more advanced than their western counterparts from the period 650 A.D to around 1500 A.D. The decline in Muslim advancement surprisingly correlates well with Western expansion into Muslim countries beginning with the Crusades and then with Imperialism and colonisation. The reason for this stagnation is not as many believe the role of Islam but rather the authorities that ruled those societies during that period and had full control over any advancement or stagnation. For the most part (but not all) white European Christian colonisers ran them. They felt it was their God given right to own the land and its people as chattel by force of arms. Just look at slavery from West Africa to the “New World” or the European presence in South Africa for a more recent example.
I wish to conclude with this thought: Every group of people on this earth have skeletons in their closet. They also have co-religionist that act in ways that they may not agree with. But the vilification of Islam from the “high moral horse ” of western civilisation is at best irrational, illogical and at worst an expression of a hate that is woven into western society whether it be right-wing, left-wing, liberal, conservative, socialist, religious, secular, democratic, fascist or communist.
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April 16th, 2006 at 07:58
We all need to listen to one another, don’t we, rather than demonisin one another, or making perhaps excessive truth claims. Good blog: I’ve just added you to my blogmarks at http://ninglun.wordpress.com/ — my new site.
April 16th, 2006 at 10:43
Thanks Ninglun, many just believe the hype as it takes a lot less effort and reinforces already long held prejaudices.
April 17th, 2006 at 13:34
I think most people in the WEST have very wrong ideas of Islam because their media portrays it in an evil way.
April 18th, 2006 at 16:26
Anyone who calls any one religion ‘evil’ is obviously misinformed. No religion is either ‘good’ or ‘evil’, it all depends on how religious leaders choose to use them. Unfortunately many Muslim leaders today actively discourage dissidence and discussion on how Islam can adapt to best serve people living in a modern, complex world (I quote from the UK’s Islamic TV channel: [Presenter to caller] “Having a mortage is a worse sin than beating your mother a thousand times on top of the Ka’bah.” Err, either a) very misogynistic, or b) slighty out of touch with what people need to live in the UK today). It’s unfortunate, because in theory religion could fulfil great needs in the lives of many people.
April 21st, 2006 at 14:51
@ muslim unity “I think most people in the WEST have very wrong ideas of Islam because their media portrays it in an evil way”
Ok, and how about the way the EVIL WEST is portrayed in muslim countries??
April 22nd, 2006 at 16:29
Mononoke how do you think that the West is portraited in Muslim countries?
April 22nd, 2006 at 17:05
The crusades killed us too, and by “us”, I mean christians. In the meantime, your religion is killing us all over the world…and it is killing you also. When you die in the cause of allah you are dying in the cause of a false god. Why do you not believe what Jesus told you?
Please, listen to him…I want to see you in heaven with me…I want to call you my brother…and do not hate muslims but love you…so much that it breaks my heart.
April 22nd, 2006 at 17:46
Thank you tracifish for loving muslims but hating Islam. You said in your comment that as Muslims we die in the cause of a false god. How do you know this and can you help me to see the light?
April 23rd, 2006 at 08:30
Like this???
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=57
April 23rd, 2006 at 13:27
I am sorry mononoke I did not understand your last post. Please can you elaborate upon why you posted the link and in what relationship was it posted.
April 23rd, 2006 at 21:25
Ok, you wrote: “Mononoke how do you think that the West is portraited in Muslim countries?”
that’s what my link refers to. There’s fragments of middle eastern tv channels and if I had never been in the west and believe what those “scholars” say, I would think most people in the so called west are perverts, with no morals at all…. Is that what most tv channels show about the west? You tell me, I guess you live in a muslim country (I have no idea where)
April 23rd, 2006 at 21:33
mononoke that is not true all tv programming in the muslim world does not reflect what is portraited in your link. You have to realise that there are shades of grey in most things like this not just black and white colours. I did not check all of the contents in the link that you provided but you say that the impressions that those Islamic scholars give is that of a decedant, perverted and immoral west. I do not think that this is something that is peculiar to Islam. If you take the opinions of scholars of any of the worlds faiths they will all berate the state of the modern world and its distance from religious teaching.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:50
So that’s ok with you because when they portray the west so bad it’s actually true, right??
April 25th, 2006 at 18:27
These are their opinions and as humans we all have a right to our views. Surely you will not deny them that right. But you are right, unfounded, irrational and illogical hate can be found on both sides of the equation it is not the preserve of one set of people. That is all I am trying to say.
April 26th, 2006 at 08:09
Ok, I agree with you there…