Mullahs 2

“The "modernism" of the West is a relatively new creation - women (and men) still covered their heads with hats and scarves in the Christian West into the 1960's - the same decade that women and minorities began to achieve a level of equality in Western Society. The true break with the past came earlier - first with the Renaissance (empowered with ideas from Islam), and then with the Reformation - and the separation of Church and State. Islam as a religion is not the problem. Islam as a vehicle of power - which necessitates the silencing of discourse and progress - is. Go to the root of any religion, and you will find the ideals to be great and good. It is the interpretation and implementation of a narrow set of ideals that serve the purpose of power that pervert the enlightenment of any religion. George Bush and his "Christian" cronies are as much evidence of that as any Wahabi mullah."

Greg Gutbezahl, Montclair NJ USA


"It is said in the Holy Quran that the first word from Allah was "ikra". which means "read". The importance of the quest for knowledge, education and advancement is on of the key concepts in Islam. If modernity is defined by technological progress, and acquiring knowledge then Islam is most certainly modern. "

Mishuk, MN, USA
 

"I noticed when I read these posts that most Muslims blame the problems with their own governments, society and all other ills on the 'evil' West. They have to look at themselves and their own leaders instead of always blaming others. Also remember that the Golden Age of Islam was more inclusive then the new Wahabist Islam of today."

Chen Li, Hong Kong


"Because the Qur'an so repeatedly, emphatically and unequivocably expresses the fact that Allah is Al-Rahman, Al-Raheem both, and acts with both attributes simultaneously yet appropriately, those who seek to be called Muslim yet avoid facing the reality about who they are worshipping spend more time reading hadeeths which often take a less clear-cut approach and allow more narrow-mindedness and at the same time relief from accountability than the Qur'an. This includes hadeeths claimed to be quotes from the Prophet Mohammad and those claimed to be direct statements from Allah Himself (glory to Him in the highest), but not included in the Qur'an (itself problematic), also called hadeeths qudsi. Many hadeeths actually contradict the Qur'an, both in meaning and in presentation. Many are used to micro-manage Muslims' lives down to the last nitpicking detail. And many are used to provide evidence that Muslims have, by simply mouthing a simple creed, carte blanche to paradise and will meet Al-Raheem on the Judgment Day "b'ghayer hassab" or "without an accounting (of their deeds)." This latter "Muslim version" of the Christian and Jewish desire to change reality by lying about it culminated in the changing of the actual understanding of the meaning of the name Al-Rahman to be essentially the same as the meaning of the name Al-Raheem. Many an imam has rhapsodised on this fact, as to how His mercy is so great that He invoked it twice, etc., etc. Do they not read the Qur'an, which clearly states that whom we will all meet in the Day of Judgment is Al-Rahman, whose name carries the same weight and authority as the name Allah (Surat Bani Isra’eel 17:118), the Almighty, and that all people without exception must face the terror of His potential wrath, and His judgment, before being granted, if eligible (and Al-Rahman alone determines eligibility here), His mercy, courtesy of Al-Raheem?”

http://www.free-minds.org/articles/gods_system/rahman.htm


 

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