doing as Muhammad said, not as he did

Submitted by the Grand Infidel of Kafiristan (Australia), Aug 16, 2009 at 17:24

Anne Marie Delcambre writes:

"For Muslims, the significance of "to follow the Sunna" is more than simply doing as Muhammad did;"

Yes, he wasn't much of a role model was he? I mean, if one had to choose between Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius , Guru Nanak and Mohammed - guess who'd be last on most people's list? For so many, many reasons.

"To love Allah and to be loved by Allah is THE KEY in islamic religion."

You've boiled it down to some very simplistic concepts (but left out Islam's other great motivation - i.e. to by political means remake the world into the confused mess it thinks it should become) - and in doing so have pointed out a major flaw of Islam. What you've described is the motivation behind nearly all religions (except maybe Buddhism - which instead says 'wake up from the illusion of being separate from God'.)

So seeing that all religions have the one motivation - why does Islam , ALONE, become the source of 99.9% of ALL terrorist actions - against Muslims and non-Muslims anywhere in the world?

Because it is a primitive Arabian based theology that tries to force 7th century ideas of social cohesion and it's distorted imagination of what 'Allah' is or is not - onto a sophisticated and diverse world that has long since evolved past medieval thinking.

The fact is - despite all attempts to convince us otherwise - It can't handle diversity and freedom of thought.

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