For Plato and back to basics!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 5, 2007 at 07:03

Hi Plato

I understand what you are saying. However, we infidels cannot fix islam. Only Muslims can fix Islam. But you know what? islam cannot be fixed as long as Muslims see all of the Qur'an as the real word and wish of Allah uncreated and unchanged, good for all times and all places.

You can see what happened to the likes of Prof Abu Zaid who suggested that the only way we can approach the Qur'an is to regard it as a text written in a different time and a different place and then subject it to the tools of literary criticism. He was declared an infidel and a court ruled that he must divorce his wife! He fled Egypt and went to Holland and I do not blame him.

And is there such a thing as a moderate Muslims? No there is no such a thing.

And you know what? One of the major fault lines of Islam is that we do not have a central authority that we can talk to.

I happen to believe that the worst enemy of Islam is islam! Islam claims to be a religion and a political system not unlike communism another religion that was also defeated. Political Islam does not deliver and this will be the reason that will bring islam down.

What is more strange is that the mythical time of the first 4 Khalifas (al-khulafa' al-rashiduun) Abu Bakr, Ali, Uthman and Omar it was a time of violence and wars and three of them were killed by other Muslims, go figure. Notice that this is the time that Muslims want to emulate! Go figure that too...

The way I see it, the only way to solve the Muslim problem is to let them kill each other and limit immigration of Muslims to the west, bug Mosques and deport any Imam who preaches hate or violence.

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