18% is pretty scary. If you think that’s acceptable the problem is people like you who are not radical but don’t do shit about it. I place more blame on you because it sounds like you know better.
With so many replies in such a short time I think it’s a clear indication that this subject is one of the ultimate ‘elephants in the room’ in the modern world.
Lol, yes we are. The wording does matter when talking about sensitive stuff like this. And yes I do totally agree that Islam is making harder for them to adopt modern values.
Come on hums, help me out here. If Whatevah were to argue in an Islamic country that the Quran is “so vague and contradictory that you can pretty much make any conclusion you like from it” would Whatevah be OK in terms of freedom of speech?
It is, whether he/she admits it or not is irelevant. Why do you think there are so many schools of thought in Islam? It also does not talk about the punishments and everyday stuff and most of these stuff are derived from hearsay they call “sunnat” which is anything anyone has quoted from the prophet.
Also there are many contradictions in koran which they kinda justify but its still up to the reader to decided which one they want to believe.
The sole purpose of “ayyatollahs” is to interpret qoran and choose which “revayat” (the hearsay stuff) is real and which ones are made up. Seriously I’m not even joking look it up.
Edit: also to formulate new laws, based on core beliefs, for stuff where islam has not said anything about.
I don’t know why we need to have a argument about the nature of Islam when some of us would have been jailed or much much worse in many Muslim countries saying the things we said.
And I don’t get your obsession for saying it is the source of all evil. I’m not defending Islam but I don’t think a dialogue, or anything good for that matter, will come out of full on berating a population of 1.2 billion with vastly different ethnicities, languages and cultures.
Well when people are screaming allah ahkbar shooting at civilians in Paris, running into tourist in Barcelona, stabbings in London, bombs their own countries and flying planes into my fellow Americans and human beings just going to work in New York. What should I blame?
They are mostly busy bombing and shooting EACH OTHER up never mind Christians and Westerner.
Sunnis hate Shia.
Shia hate Sunni.
Persians and the Arabs.
Arabs hate Jews.
Arabs destroying remaining ancient Christian communities in the Middle East.
Taliban blowing up everybody in Afghanistan.