Supposedly at the time the war lords in the middle east were constantly
fighting not making for a very peaceful place. So Muhammad put together
this movement to quell the war lords and end the worship of multiple
deities (each warlord with their own).
Of course now we have the war lords of the USA, Israel, ISIS, etc.
stirring up things there. The first two worship money and the third is
either a fad or a military PSYOP using crazy people.
On 06/06/2015 04:28 PM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Re “If you go and read the Koran, sit back, afterwards, then honestly
ask yourself: what would Muhammad want?” says Harris.":
If Islam had remained a small cult in Mecca and someone today became
curious about their beliefs and so read through The Koran (I've read
it twice) the impression left would be that Muhammad was extremely
intolerant of other beliefs. A classical liberal he most certainly was
not.
Apologists for Islam point out that at the time Muhammad was engaged
in open warfare between his own followers and others, like Jews,
Christians and pagans, so picking up on those passages which reveal
his closed mind is like criticizing anti-German propaganda during the
Second World War. There's something to be said for that but the sheer
relentlessness of his constant talk of unbelievers roasting in Hell
does suggest someone with issues.
There is a strange, incantatory poetry about some passages and I've
little doubt that Muhammad did have a genuine spiritual experience
("Allah is Nearer to Man than his Jugular Vein") and he did wish to
see a united community at peace. But it's a dangerous book.
I shall be getting Sam Harris's latest title when it becomes available.
---In [email protected], <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
of a larger 'otherness', outside of rational-conscious experience:
consciousness.
..his father came from a Quaker background.
Harris looks to eastern religion — Buddhism, and more specifically,
the mediation practice of mindfulness — as a way of finding a sense of
otherness, outside of rational-conscious experience.
In this view, he explains, consciousness itself is identical to the
very thing one might otherwise mistake for God.
The main problem, Harris believes, is that the issue is far greater
than simply containing radical ideas from a handful of Muslim extremists.
“If you go and read the Koran, sit back, afterwards, then honestly ask
yourself: what would Muhammad want?” says Harris.
“You can call this idea Islamism, Muslim extremism, Islamic terrorism,
but the main point is this: it’s Islamic to the core. We [in the West]
are not at war with generic extremism. We are at war with a death cult
that is animated by a 7th-century approach to Islam.”
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
Atheist writer bravely disses Islam.
He seems confused about who the aggressors are in the Israeli conflict
though. Anyone would think that the Palestinians don't have the right
to try and get their land back that was stolen from them in 1948, and
more every year since.
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