Website review: When Islam Breaks Down by Theodore ...
Inertial-Mass discovered this in Islam
•7 reviews since Apr 12, 2004
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•city-journal.org/html/14_2_when_islam.html
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Inertial-Mass discovered 52 months ago- From the page: "Unlike Christianity, which had to spend its first centuries developing institutions clandestinely and so from the outset clearly had to separate church from state, Islam was from its inception both church and state, one and indivisible, with no possible distinction between temporal and religious authority. Muhammad's power was seamlessly spiritual and secular (although the latter grew ultimately out of the former), and he bequeathed this model to his followers. Since he was, by Islamic definition, the last prophet of God upon earth, his was a political model whose perfection could not be challenged or questioned without the total abandonment of the pretensions of the entire religion."
- Najmatica rated 3 months ago
- raises intelligent points and valid criticisms, but I disagree with the conclusions. This is because of personal experience, the same reason (freely admitted in the article, which is refreshing) used by the author. The ignorance he mentions by his Pakistani-African Muslim acquaintance, I accredit to social dilemmas; lack of education, not realizing the necessity for diversity in one's religious pool, short term gains delivered by zealotry, lack of religious understanding outside of adhering to dogma. The blinding and self destructive religious elitism that exists in these cultures is not implicit to Islam. This isn't Islamiphobic, just not overly compensating to appeal to moderate Muslims, and really calling for a step away from strict religious adherence. This is where the author's argument becomes weak, for the ideological deterioration is no longer an exclusivity to Islam, but something to accredit to organized religion. The separation of church and state as a political strength does not dissuade this, but reflects a basic difference of opinion. The current crisis is not a necessary repercussion of believing that worship exists continually in life (a staple of eastern faith), but a failure to understand that worship, and falling servant to political agenda .
- finalstation rated 9 months ago
- Scary tale of force marriage! What if she is a lesbian? What horror for her!
- saarasusu rated 30 months ago
- Sorry, but this is crap, and so Islamiphobic it's sad. I wonder how many actual Muslims (and it's not synonomous with Arab or Middle Eastern) this guy has ever met. This is just anti Islamic prejudices dressed up to look like a scholarly essay.
- TOMTHUMB rated 35 months ago
- some thing to learn here
- GoddessOfOnions rated 45 months ago
- interesting.
