Even Psychologists Cannot Answer the Why of Islam's Hatred of Others - Even as It is Expressed in Conditions of Fatwas

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Aug 12, 2022 at 14:48

Salmon Rushdie was rushed on stage in an apparent attempt to (finally) answer the Islamic call to oppress those whose perceptions of how Islam is intolerant to other religious aspirations or expressions of how to worship one's own Deity. To be sure, Mssr Rushdie's expressions of a determined opinion of Islam is extreme in its represenation, tolerance might still have been an approach to deal with an opposing opinion in order to frame Islam in a more engaging pursuit of freedoms of expression. Yet, as other have opined about Islam, tolerance is not the hallmark of an emperious form of religious expression. Psychology fails miserable in the attempt to delve into the mindset of those that have come to the end of a rationale in rational thinking. Hatred to the extent of murder has always represented the darkness of human emotions and psychologists, even psychiatrists who study the physical charateristics of such emotional outbursts, cannot yet make anything more of it than to say it represents the basest form of human depravity. From there, it must rely upon a determination that exceeds the mere mortality of the human condition, the supernatural inference that mankind is more likely to descend into its own destruction unless a superior frame of Divine intervention is sought and desired. Does Islam provide that after trying to destroy Christianity and replace its message of love with one of abject rejection and destruction of those who oppose it. Does Salmon Rushdie have a cause for his opinion now? Where is the psychologist's assessment now?

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