sir prince duke alevine wrote on Jul 13
th, 2016 at 10:40pm:
Except most views of 13th century misogynistic men are no longer used as some kind of ideology to follow, other than Mohammeds. In which case how can I not judge the "prophet" other than by today's standards?
If you accept him as divine, judgement is impossible.
If you don't accept him as divine, you cannot judge him by today's standards as he is not alive today and his views and actions must be viewed in light of the environment in which he existed.
Do you judge the Romans by today's mores or by the mores of the Roman Empire? I'd judge them by their own mores. I've often heard historians of Ancient Rome chuckling over what some Roman General or Emporer did in exacting punishment on some rebellious group or province. Were they judging them by today's mores? I rather doubt it.
Quote:All religious Islamic states judge his word as the word to being a good muslim, and have implemented state laws around it. If you agree that he is a 13th century barbarian than you should agree Islam is not fit for today's day and age, and MUST change. In which case, your claim that Islam has reformed is bullshit because you don't see the same challenges to the "literal" word as we have had in Christianity and in Judaism.
Nations which consider(ed) themselves to be "Good Christian nations" enacted laws around their Christian beliefs, which of course allowed slavery, servitude of women and children, penury of the peasants, etc. Funny that. Today's "Islamic religious states" (which there are only a few) enact various laws based on Sh'ria and the Q'ran. Some are good laws, some are harsh and some stupid. Sounds rather like Australia in that way, doesn't it? No human devised system of laws is perfect, remember that.
Quote:As for demanding reform, what you say is typical regressive leftism. If you believe in universal human rights than it isn't just up to Muslims to reform their own religion, but up to us to help the reformers and to ensure that it happens.
Is exactly what I have proposed when you came into this thread...
So, it appears we are arguing 'round about in circles.
Quote:Universal human rights are not just for the lucky white and we get to seat around and say "you can have it too if you work at it, but we won't demand it." Universal human rights are just that: universal. All of us must fight for them and if we see problems, from which people can barely escape from I might add, then it isn't right to seat back and say "don't interfere, it's not our problem." That's how we got to suddam Hussein killing millions while the world sat around in its pathetic pacifist state. And it's the same with Islam: it isn't just up to Muslims to stop their religion being interpreted to mean a raped woman should be flogged. It's up to all of us to ensure that doesn't happen as it's obviously against universal human rights. Hence, those who don't stand up are the regressive left, who accept the problems in Islam and don't wish to interfere for the sake of offending or seeming to be the "white supremist".
Never took you to be an idealist. There is a problem with demanding something of someone. All too often they dig their heels in and refuse to do what you've demanded. Ask them and you might be more successful. Show them the way and do it yourself, you might have even more success. Help them and your success rate goes up again.
Standing on the sidelines and making demands rarely works.
Standing on the sidelines, making demands and condemning them when they fail to live up t your expectations works even more rarely.
Standing on the sidelines, making demands and condemning them when they fail to live up t your expectations, and denying the ones who attempt to escape that society entry to your own when they come asking Asylum makes you look like a what?