Can't argue with that

Submitted by Rick (United States), Mar 24, 2008 at 01:08

Saad: "if you actually study the shariah you will find it is the best system in the world"

Can't argue with that logic and don't really want to try. I could point out that this is the same logic of those early American Puritans who burned, hanged and drowned innocent men and women for being witches.

It is also the same kind of logic that is behind the Western expanding, hegemonic capitalist structures and symbols that Islamists are so upset about.
That is, "all will be well, prosperous and peaceful once you realize that the answer is to submit and participate fully within the global market economy." If you choose to not participate, then we'll just take your land or drop some bombs on you if you resist.

This is the same argument of Islam and Jihad, but Islamists, like free market capitalists, and all other single minded reductionists, are blind to this fact and this is why we have to fight.

It seems that Buddhist are the only ones not fighting, because they don't give a shit if you believe or understand what they do, which is actually a sign of understanding something that is true. This is because, if what you believe is self evident in reality, you don't feel the need to convince others of it. There's no cognitive dissonnence involved.

But when you have a belief isn't obvious in nature, like gravity, or the impermanence of things, then the more people that believe what you do the better you feel and the less crazy you feel.

We will never get anywhere until we see that the root cause of all of this is the absolute belief in anything in spite of reality.

I'm an anthropologist, so I actually understand your argument Saad, but the sad fact is that you literally can't understand mine. And, so we fight and blood will be spilled, because I won't let my family be hanged, drowned or burned like a witch.

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