Blame Islam For All Your Evils, Dude!

[Rehmat]

"We should come to know our Shadow or else there is a strong tendency to project our Shadow upon others." (Carl Jung)


"The West misunderstands Islam largely because we’ve got a deep cultural prejudice that is as deeply ingrained as our anti-Semitism, which developed alongside it from about the time of the Crusades. We’ve got into the habit of projecting our own shortcomings onto Islam, just as we did upon the Jews." (Karen Armstrong)


Many other things Islam is blamed by the non-Muslims – come from their own ‘dark past’. For example, in today’s lexicon of the dreaded Veil and fanatical woman-hating, it may be hard to remember a time when Islam represented wanton sensuality and licentiousness. "Today when many people in the West are trying to shed the sexual repressions of their Christian past, we say that Islam is a sexually repressed religion…..At a time in the Middle Ages when Europe was extremely hierarchical, we blamed Islam for giving too much power to menials like slaves and women. Today we’ve thrown that off and we blame Islam for being oppressive to women. Again, we’ve reversed the old stereotype, not because we’ve found out anything about Islam necessarily, but because we’ve got into a cultural habit of making Islam the opposite of us." Armstrong points out.


As a matter of fact, western are ‘born-in’ racial profiling and religious bigotry. For example, Why weren’t white men profiled after the Oklahoma bombing or during the Unabomber scare? Or why Catholicism was racialized and made a big issue in the election of John F. Kennedy?


Sounds crazy, eh? Well, racism and bigotry don’t have much to do with sanity."

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


Just felt to bring this topic up...

[Khairan]

Edward Said has done some incredible work on this topic. I highly recommend the books "Orientalism" and "Covering Islam," both of which address the issue of how Islam is treated by Western scholarship and media.

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


I agree with u, although he wasnt Muslim. I enjoyed reading his articles published in an Egyptian (english language) newspaper when he was alive.


He was just an objective person. Sobhan Allah.

[Ruggedtouch]

Sounds crazy, eh? Well, racism and bigotry don’t have much to do with sanity."

It doesn't necessarily sound crazy, just ignorant and untrue.



Let's be honest, the ummah clearly doesn't enjoin right nor does it forbid wrong.


Examine the very worst atrocities taking place in the world today; Darfur, Iraq, India, Phillipines, Europoe, Africa etc., and you'll find the orthodox muslim doctrine of world domination playing a part.


Your position is of an apologist and ill-informed. Your posted comments represent a system of formed opinions on what you think or do not think about matters, though you require of yourself far less evidence than you require of others for their positions - that is, you are being dismissive to claims that Islamic terrorism is a worldwide threat to the free world.


I’m also concerned about the rights of the general public to be protected from Islamic terrorism. As much as you may wish to avoid having to address it, Islamic terrorism is a clear and present threat to the Western world and others.


This madness of calculated mass murder is not happening in the cause of any other faith on the globe at this time. It is only happening in the cause of Islam's jihad and it’s happening with the financial and logistical support of Arab/Muslim governments, sympathizers and enablers and it is definitely occurring frequently enough to require any objective, reasoned person consider that this problem is directly related to Islamic doctrine.


A sensible and reasoned person cannot sweep away the reality that if Muslims are genuinely concerned about "rights", (the very rights that Muslims demand for themselves but explicitly deny others), over the continuing incidents of mass murder in Allah’s name, then it falls to them to set forth, unequivocally, that reform to their ideology must be undertaken.

[Dan]

Bismillah


Hooray! We are all being saved from our ignorance. Thank you kind stranger whose words we have never heard or addressed before. If you notice when you first came on the board we advised you to do searches if you have any questions. Clearly that is not your aim.


What are you here to do? Change our minds? Once again a great Western mind is going to lead the way. You are boring. You are posting what has been posted time and again and we have addressed it time and again. If you truly care to actually learn, then look for it. Otherwise feel free to continue your ignorant and uneducated rantings.


I can see you are clearly threated by the Islamic terrorists but who is arming these people?


The top exporters of arms are the U.S., Great Britian, France, China, and Russia. Are these not at least some of the countries who are so "threatened?" Are they also not the exact same countries on the U.N. security council?


While you hoop and holla about the detrimental aspects of this terrorism on the society, many more impactive issues go untended. In the U.S., there is an education, poverty, obesity problem. Education is especially needed since many Americans have failed to learn how to learn, investigate for themselves instead of regurgitating every bit of nonsense they hear. Maybe the obesity and education problem are interlinked since many seem to devour whatever comes their way without pause for the consequences of what they injest.


Why are billions spent on a War on Terror that smacks of the Red Scare when thousands upon thousands die from legal tobacco and alcohol, not to mention deaths related to their use, like fires and drunk driving accidents? Of course, War on Terror makes money and then so does legal tobacco and alcohol. There are billions being spent in the health care industry to provide these people with cures when an ounce of prevention would serve all of us better. Let us look at who benefits from all of this.


But I am digressing.


Ok mooslems, let us get bak 2 skule bc we not know nothing. Help we, meestir RuggedTouch!

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


:) :thumb: :allahuakbar:

[Ruggedtouch]

Bismillah


I sincerely apologize ruggedtouch


By mistake i edited this post when i wanted to make a reply.


i m sure you have a copy of it, pls do repost it.


I will not reply till u do, thank u. pls accept my apology.