On 10/1/2014 8:31 PM, LizR wrote:
Thank you, that's interesting (of course, it should be obvious to anyone with a few
brain cells that facile generalisations are bad... but they creep in all too easily...)
But also facile distinctions are made:
/ASLAN: Stoning and mutilation and those barbaric practices should be condemned and
criticized by everyone. The actions of individuals and societies and countries like Iran,
like Pakistan, like Saudi Arabia must be condemned, because they don't belong in the 21st
century.//
//
//But to say Muslim countries, as though Pakistan and Turkey are the same, as though
Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are the same, as though somehow what is happening in the most
extreme forms of these repressive countries, these autocratic countries, is representative
of what's happening in every other Muslim country, is, frankly -- and I use this word
seriously -- stupid. So let's stop doing that. /
Turkey is different precisely because Kemal Ataturk made separation of church and state a
foundation of Turkey - something directly contrary to the Quran which mandates theocracy.
So it is not as though the differences are between Pakistan and Turkey or Saudi Arabia and
Indonesia are unrelated to religion. The difference are that the more barabaric nations
are the more religious.
Brent
On 2 October 2014 15:56, Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com
<mailto:samiyaill...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The following link might be of interest. It addresses some of the questions
raised
on this forum about Islam.
Samiya
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Good segment
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/30/reza_aslan_mahers_facile_generalizations_of_islam_the_definition_of_bigotry.html
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