Khaled and MOQ ers.
I notice that the Iranians now protest the once so longed for Khomeini
revolution and that shouts of "Allah Akbar" sound from rooftops, the
same shouts that sounded during the riots against Shah Reza, and
one can only say "poor buggers" who don't fathom that it is Allah - or at
least his prophet - they have to rebel against to become free. As long
as Islam rules their lives the way it does their existence will be a yoo-
yoo between types of despotism. Their attitude toward religion is the
Muslim World's curse, but on that point they don't budge. The Koran
may be interpreted wrongly and this or that direction within Islam -
Wahabism for instance - may be bad, but Islam rules. Another point
that shows the difficulties the Muslims have with understanding the
Western World is for instance the Mohammed caricatures issue (a
Danish and Norwegian newspaper printed some such which caused
an uproar in the Middle East with burning down of embassies and
flags, they seem dead sure that the said states were behind the
caricatures, the fact that there is an independent press that can print
things without government consent is beyond their scope. This is an
expression of the "Semitic" incomprehensibility regarding the
secular/religion distinction, to them a state must be a muslim state, if
not it is an anti-muslim state, all is either pro or con Muslim to the
Muslims. This also expresses itself in their notion that a Muslim ban
against picturing, or - god forbid - caricaturing Mohammed applies to
all humankind including the "infidels". Did I mention the Swiss Tariq
Ramadan (of Egyptian origin) who promotes an Euroislam when he
speaks in Europe, this means democracy-respecting Muslims who
live and work like normal people only with a different faith, but he says
something else when he speaks to Muslims, then it is about respecting
the Sharia Law system and wearing weils ..etc. No, IMO, democracy
and religion in the "Semitic" form are incompatible, the same non-
secular/religion-schism-type Christendom once ruled in Europe up to
the Renaissance and Enlightenment which was a comeback of the
Greek attitude, and slowly the skeptical, scientific secular "SOM"
relegated religion the role of a mere subjective belief.. Thank God!
And here is my own dilemma, one moment I applaud SOM's taking
religion down a peg, the next I applaud MOQ's taking the SOM down
several pegs. But I think these juggler's acts can be performed
successfully once we see religion as social value and the MOQ as
what robs SOM of its "M" and relegates it the role of intellectual value..
IMO
Bodvar
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