"the heaviest chains' ... or a slave's eulogy of slavery

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Jan 28, 2006 at 10:39

Ed_nur, You wrote :

> One more thing

> Ernest Renan is right, islam is the heaviest chains that ever shackeled humanity. Without it, and prove me wrong if I am, the middle east would be full of, gay marriages, porn, drugs, Imams molesting kids in the mosque, 50 year old men raping 3 year olds, kid porn sites, gay government leaders, presidents getting oral sex in the office, etc.

Is it in your Muslim homeland that you familiarised yourself with all these sorts of sexual perversities? Besides, are these the data you collected during your own painstaking research across the West or you just quote verbatim your local imam?

However, to quote freely Ernest Renan one more time :
"The moment a Muslim child is religiously initiated suddenly it becomes stubbornly fanatic, full of silly pride in possessing the until then undisclosed revelation which it firmly holds to be the ultimate absolute truth, full of happiness - as if its was a unique privilege - in adoring exactly that which constitutes its inferiority and mental degradation. "

[ E. Renan, L'Islam et la science , Conférence 29.03.1883, p.31. ]

Do you remember your Muslim childhood and the moment when you first became so proud of what makes of you just another slave praising the chains that shackle your mind and your soul?

> I think you understand what I mean

May I address you with the same words?

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