At the risk of sounding like a talking parrot, I must repeat something I said in Islam Unveiled and many times since then: Islamic reformers will always face an uphill battle, because jihadists will use the Qur'an and Sunnah against them, and charge them with straying from Islamic authenticity.
From ChannelNewsAsia.com, with thanks to Twostellas:
JAKARTA: The highest Islamic authority in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-populated nation, is mulling edicts to fight "liberal Islamic thought", a senior Muslim cleric said.Ma'aruf Amin, head of the edict committee of the Indonesian Ulema Council, said the move was being considered as a means to fight deviance and secularism in the country, most of which adheres to a moderate strain of the religion....
The Council is officially the highest authority on Islamic matters in Indonesia but its edicts have not always been closely followed by all Muslims, who make up 88 percent of the population of officially-secular Indonesia....
islam is such a fragile religion, what with all that peacefulness and all, that the clerics feel it needs protection.
Hmmm... they hate liberal thought. They hate liberals. They hate secularism. Sounds familiar--where have I heard this before? Oh yeah. A.M. radio.
Whew!
Double bad.
I had a liberal thought this morning. Not only did it make my head hurt, but some cop from the Jakarta Thought Control Department emailed me a cease and decist ticket.
"...its edicts have not always been closely followed by all Muslims, who make up 88 percent of the population of officially-secular Indonesia..." - What does it mean? How many Indonesian Muslims "closely follow" these edicts? 15 per cent? 40? 99? Does anyone know?
Crac DC.
99% dont know what an edit is even after it has hit then
kj,
Is that why US liberals prefer the terrorists to Repubicans? Don't worry kj, The Dems will make damn sure we lose this war, and then where will your liberalism be?
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Hmmm... they hate liberal thought. They hate liberals. They hate secularism. Sounds familiar--where have I heard this before? Oh yeah. A.M. radio.
Posted by: kj
That's why you gotta do all that praying everyday nonstop. Brain mush = poison = kill infidels.
Thought control out 'til next prayer. Remember, kill the infidels, kill the infidels.
I found the last sentence in this paragraph amusing:
Ma'aruf Amin, head of the edict committee of the Indonesian Ulema Council, said the move was being considered as a means to fight deviance and secularism in the country, most of which adheres to a """moderate strain of the religion"""....
Makes islam sound like a disease. Which of course, it is.
I have news for Ma'aruf Amin: If there's one thing you can't control in this life, it's the thoughts of another person.
This was the whole point of the book by psychologist Viktor Frank, Man's Search for Meaning, which he wrote while a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.
Even when everything else is taken away, when you are brutalized and humiliated, when you have nothing left - you have your thoughts, and you can control the way you view external events.
This is the power of the inner person - something that nothing, not even the Islamic "Thought Police", can take away.
LOL Kevin you are just as much a moron as the Muslims.
kj shoved your "conservativism" in your face, showing you how undifferentiated you are from the Muslims and what do you do? You validate him.
Jim Bob beats his wife and kids with a baseball bat.
Jim Rob beats his wife and kids with a switch.
Using the denial of moral equivalency rational so prominent here, Jim Rob is superior to Jim Bob because he only uses a switch not a baseball bat.
You don't get it, and neither do many, if not most, of your brothers and sisters.
By the way Kevin what war are we going to lose. we already lost the war in Iraq, attacking an Apostate Muslim, whose greatest enemy was other Muslims (like Osama), now we have tens of thousands of trained and experienced Jihadis to deal with, whereas before Saddam had them tied up in his Republican Guard and Mukhabarat executing Shi'as, now the theocratic Shi'as have Iraq and are making it an Islamic Republic in the model and modality of Iran.
Great move. I think we already lost that war, and wasted our blood and money.
The war on Terror. Lost that one too thanks to Bandar Bush and Bush Bandar, the House of Bush House of Saud, (which suckered us into invading Iraq for the benefit = almost solely, of the Saudis, Kuwaits, Iranians and Gulf Coast Emirates. Welll the Carlyle Group (Bush) and Haliburton (Cheney) amassed a nice pile of change from the invasion of Iraq, and the unaudited, no bid contracts that were let to construct basis, provide services and privatize Iraqi utilities and oil.
I think that you need a few more brain cells Kevin, maybe learn to think, especially outside the box, stop listening to the choir and be, what your Fuhrer George isn't.. curious.
Punishing liberal thought because it "corrupts society" and encourages promiscuity? Let society corrupt itself; as long as I can use the clicker to switch from Janet's tits on CBS to the History Channel, I'm okay.
I'd very much prefer seeing a slit skirt to a slit throat.