Soren wrote on Nov 4
th, 2014 at 8:54pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 4
th, 2014 at 6:53pm:
Soren wrote on Nov 4
th, 2014 at 11:14am:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 2
nd, 2014 at 11:48pm:
Soren wrote on Nov 2
nd, 2014 at 9:28pm:
So you are saying that Islam and Muslims have nuffin' to do wiv Islam's and Muslims' poor reputation? It's all everyone else's fault?
What I am saying is that it is unfair to tar all adherents of a vast religious group like the Muslims because of the actions of a minority, Soren. I have been saying this for many, many, many, many posts but it doesn't seem to sink in for you. Why? Are you incapable of comprehending a simple concept?
Noticing the centrality of Islamic doctrine to all but one of the listed terrorist organisation in Australia is unfair? How?
I didn't claim it was.
When however, you assume that the Terrorists' interpretation of Islam doctrine is the same as mainstream Islamic doctrine, then you run into trouble, Soren.

Your problem is that you quite deliberately seem to make sure that you tell people that you make no differentiation between different interpretations of Islam, Soren.
It is like suggesting that all Christians are Catholics.
Don't be an idiot on purpose, Brain.
NOWHERE have I said that every interpretation of Islam is the same as every other.
Yet, you act as if it is what you believe, Soren. You imply it, everytime you erect that strawman claim that the Terrorists are the real representatives of Islam and that what they are doing is what Islam demands of them, each and everytime they cut a head off.
Quote:I am beginning to question your sanity.
What I maintain is that ISLAM is common to ALL the various Muslims ways of thinking.
Islam = submission to sharia, jihad and the final, unalterable word of god. Whatever your interpretation of Islam, submission to sharia is a non-negotiable.
Show me an interpretation in the vibrant diversity of Islam that doesn't require you to submit to sharia, or to recognise Mohammed as the final messenger of god or to treat the Koran as a the final, UNALTERABLE word of God.
There is NO Muslim who can contradicts these fundamentals. This is a narrow and specific 'vibrant diversity', Brain. You believe it all and so you are a Muslim or you don't and then you aren't.
What you're missing, Soren is how one submits to Allah - note, Allah, NOT "sh'ria". Sh'ria is a part of Islam, it is not the keystone. You appear to ignore that for some reason.
Then, of course there is what Sh'ria is, exactly. Many different versions, many different interpretations, all different. You however, keep acting as if there is only one interpretation of what Sh'ria is!

As for Mohammed being the final messenger, I wonder how that fits with the Twelver belief system?

Such subtleties keep passing you by, Soren. You have heard the siren call of the extremists and you've succumbed. They have converted you to their interpretation of Islam and you've dived in, quite happily, now haven't you?