Extending your third possibility, Prashant

Submitted by A very concerned reader (Australia), Apr 8, 2021 at 15:27

Dear Prashant,

It was delightful to read your comment.

Although I think you already know my answer, I would say the following:

From an outsider's view, and keeping a very formal position, I would agree with you on this:

>That brings me to the third possibility that it I alluded to above. This third possibility, unfortunately, is most damaging. It is possible that neither the Quranic ideas are too ambiguous nor Arabic is a complex language. What might actually be happening is that the Quranic ideas are not sound and consistent enough to stand to our logic and apologists use the ambiguity of Arabic as an excuse to defend and protect Quran. In simpler terms, if I cannot defend the truth of a statement, I can always blame the script in which the argument is written.

But from my experience and perspective, and after Dhimmi No More's absolutely amazing and revealing words, today, I would extend your statement and earnestly stick to what I wrote last time here:

I believe in Ali Sina's words now more than ever in regards to how this religion was born.

I'm rescuing now a paragraph that I highlighted when I read his book Understanding Muhammad for the first time that was also very revealing in regards to the Islam message:

"It is a mistake to think of Islam as a religion. The mystical aspect of Islam was created later by Muslim philosophers who gave esoteric interpretations to Muhammad's asinine words. His followers molded the religion according to their penchant, and with the passage of time, those interpretations inherited the seal of antiquity and thus credibility. If Islam is a religion, then so were Nazism, communism, Satanism, Heaven's Gate, People's Temple, Branch Davidian, etc. If we think of religion as a philosophy of life to educate, to bring forth human potential, to elevate the soul, to stimulate spirituality, to unite hearts and to enlighten mankind, then Islam surely fails that litmus test completely. Therefore, by this measure, Islam should not and cannot be regarded as a religion". SINA, Ali, Understanding Muhammad, p.67.

What do you think of this? Does it resonate with your thoughts too?

Thank you, again, Prashant, for posting your sensible and sensitive reflections.

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