--- In [email protected], Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You must have some very different Muslims in Europe > than the ones I have met here. In 1982 I taught a > very unusual class of ESL at Kent State University. > All 25 guys from Muslim and Arabic speaking countries. > They were an amazing bunch of young gentlemen, and > the only classes I've ever taught that were similar > were the tenth grade boys at MSAE. Those young > Muslims were intelligent, kind, and spiritual. I've > kept in touch with a number of them, and they continue > to be what they were then, except that with age, > kindness has become more important to them than > intelligence. a > > Those Muslim's I described I have not met personally. I was referring to interviews I have seen on TV or read from a newspaper or magazine. And every single time I have perceived errors in their conceptual thinking.
Most recent was an interview of a Muslim spiritual leader in Finland. He was considered to be very moderate in his thinking. He explained a lot about what Muslim women are allowed to do, and what not, and why their community controls so much their behaviour. He explained how this actually benefits and protects the women. He also said that men and women are equal. Then the interviewer asked about the female genital mutilation. The man told he does not accept it. Then the interviewer said that it is done here in Finland also. The man admitted it. The interviewer asked then what he has done to stop this practise. He answered: I'm not the guard of my brother. What kind of logic is this? He doesn't guard his brothers, but he says he guards his sisters to protect them. But actually allows the most terrible cruelty being done to girls, because he does not guard what the Muslim community does to their girls, even if he does not accept this doing. This is truly convoluted reasoning. In every interview so far I have perceived some similar sort fundamental errors in their conceptual reasoning. Did you ever discuss these kinds of matters with those young men? Irmeli
