How difficult is knowing Islam?

Submitted by ted (United States), Jun 28, 2010 at 01:43

Saying that people should not criticize Islam because "they do not even know islam" is a beaten record. Ordinary people cannot be expected to go to a Muslim country for twenty years and study the best possible interpretation of Islam in the most forgiving madarsa. We will judge Islam by our day to day observation of it and we cannot be faulted for doing so.

If you think that a dog is impure but a horse is not, then you fail to stand to our logic and we will criticize your reasoning.

If you do so in the privacy of your church, we will not bother. But if you do so in a fashion that you fail to do the routine services expected from you (e.g driving a blind dog owner in your taxi) then we will demand that you choose a different profession.

And in all cases, we will tell you that blindly and mechanically following a written code might be the true cause of your misery, violence and poverty in your part of the world.

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