To Mo on pure islam

Submitted by Plato (United Arab Emirates), Jan 11, 2007 at 07:07

You wrote:

"....What they destroyed was merely an old government, a constitution based on an impure, adulterated version of Islamic political governance; however this move by the west served to create a greater problem, the reawakening of ideals based on pure Islam suddenly resonated in the mindset of individuals...."

Mo you talk of pure and impure Islam. What is this pure Islam you are talking about? You have mentioned several groups all of whom specialise in killing. To be pure one must purge what is impure. Just as the Nazis did. To have a pure Arayan race they gassed and killed Jews, Slavs, Gypsies. So for your pure Islam you kill impure women who show a bit of their ankle, slit the throat of girls who do not wear the hijab, murder men who point to some flaws in the pure religion.

Why is it that from day one the pure religion has had to kill and mutilate people to ensure its purity. I presume you assume that the rule of the 'rightly' guided caliphs were the days of pure Islam. Two or three of the rightly guided were assassinated. The assassins saw impurity in them. They would have given plenty of reasons for it. Just as you now claim that the Islamic governments that were overthrown were impure.

Is human blood and that of sacrificial animals required to wash away the impurities that you see accumulating in the religion of peace and submission.

By definition a pure religion should not have any difficulty showing off its purity. Why is it that the vast majority of mankind see it as anything but pure and live in fear and dread of the adherents of the pure religion. Merely claiming purity means nothing. You have so many schools of thought just like other religions, but unlike other religions each school calls the other heretics and wants to kill, and does kill when the opportunity arises, to keep Islam pure according to their lights.

Let me give you a demonstration of what Islamic purity is, Mr. Mo. Please read this:

9:102-104 Others (there are who) have acknowledged their wrong-doings: they have mixed an act that was good with another that was evil. Perhaps Allah will turn unto them (in Mercy): for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Of their goods, take alms, that so thou mightest purify and sanctify them; and pray on their behalf. Verily thy prayers are a source of security for them: And Allah is One Who heareth and knoweth.
Know they not that Allah doth accept repentance from His votaries and receives their gifts of charity, and that Allah is verily He, the Oft-Returning, Most Merciful?

Allah and his Prophet accepting alms from sinners to wash off their sins and PURIFY them! I wonder which religion gives you such an easy way to become pure.

Your turn Mo.

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