Why can't Islam be criticized"

Submitted by Vinodgupt (United States), Sep 20, 2006 at 11:26

Sohail writes that the Pope had criticized Islam in the past and he wonders who elected him?

Why can't Islam be criticized?

It is ony through criticism and evaluation and discussion that human being make progress. Any society that prohibits criticism will always live in stone age. Islam prohibits its believers from any evaluation or criticism of the Koran -- that does not mean the rest of the world also will not do it. Humanity has come a long way -- this was not by blind faith but by reason, logic and critical evaluation of every thought and action.

If Muslims want to live in closed doors -- that is their prerogative, but they cannot bully the rest of humanity into doing so.

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