Soren wrote on Jul 17
th, 2014 at 8:43pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Jul 16
th, 2014 at 9:58pm:
Arguments going on, within Mosques and communities across Australia, just not in public
What are they afraid of?
1. They are afraid of retaliation from the tough eggs (aka no-brow bludgahadeen)
2. they observe the Islamic doctrine of not arguing wiv da bruvvers in front of da infidels. Plus tribalism, clannishness, Cosa Nostra, whathaveyou.
3. bit of both 1 and 2.
4. Perhaps they believe they won't get a fair deal from an MSM which is dedicated to sensationalise anything to do with Muslims and portray all Muslims in the worse possible light to help shore up your Islamophobia?
Quote:There are very few Muslims who are openly speaking out for a need to reform Islam. The ones that do are promptly ostracised if not killed as betrayers, Western stooges and the like. There is NO strong, FREE popular Islamic voice for reform.
Really? What about this man? He's sadly departed now but the organisation he headed, still strongly favours modernisation and preaches it.
Then we have this man and his organisation, which preaches modernism for Islam:
Of course, being in only the most populous Islamic nation and the most modern Islamic nations respectively, they wouldn't be on your radar, now would they, Soren, centred as it is on Middle-Eastern Islam, like all good Madrassa graduates.
Quote:Hirsi Ali was in hiding for years and is still under protection. All others are writing and speaking incognito or under pseudonyms because the fear of evident deadly response to any criticism of Islam.
Yet Gus Dur and Anwar Ibrahim are not in hiding, now are they, Soren.
Perhaps it's the nature of the criticism - whether it's constructive or destructive in nature?
Quote:Mohammed being the 'final' prophet is what will ultimately fvckk Islam. It is Islam's 'scientific socialism, it's 'arian science' its unalterable truth which is an obviously stupid and outsized claim. It will send it to the way of the Soviets and Nazis all other super-rationalist dogmas. It is a corner that Islam has painted itself into and getting out of that corner will mean the end of Islam. This is what makes Islam brittle and it will not survive as anything but the troglodyte ideology of the world.
You know, Christianity maintained the same beliefs but about Jesus Christ and how the Bible was divinely inspired, Soren. However, the modern demands of the world overcame them. You seem rather uncharitable in not believing the Islamic world could not experience it's own renaissance and enlightenment.