Islam would not have allowed capitalism to grow into the monstrous forms which are presently prevalent in the “civilized" West. The Islamic legislations-whether originally prescribed by Sharia or newly adopted to face new developments within the framework of Sharia-would not have allowed the capitalists to exploit the working people or suck their blood. Islam would have precluded all the evils of capitalism including colonization, war and the enslaving of people. — Mohammad Qutb, Islam: The Misunderstood Religion
Yet in Bahrain, the Shia workers are oppressed by the al-Khalifa dynasty whilst its leader sups with Queen Elizabeth. It's as though the Queen of England is unaware of how the working people of Bahrain and even Qatar are exploited by their Sunni overlords. In Saudi Arabia, one of the Saudi princes is a serial killer of pretty Saudi women who appear to be sex objects to savages.
However, were I a well-known journalist, Bahrain would sue me for libel. There might even be a fatwa on me by a Sunni cleric. However, I refuse to fault the religion of Islam. Rather, I fault the men of Islam who abandon the greater jihad of self control for the lesser jihad of holy war.
How does it make a Muslim man greater than an unbeliever if, despite being provided a wife, a servant and an animal, such a man beats his wife, his servant or his animal? Even the Prophet(as) never beat his camel, nor any of his wives. I have read of no such thing in the Quran, but if the hadiths or even Sharia allowed an exception, then it would be wrong to harm another sentient being, be it a woman, a servant or an animal.
As for another Muslim man, Mohammed (pbuh) he never harmed anyone in Mecca, before and after hijra, except to defend his right to freedom of religion and trade.
Today, the criminals pretending to be good Muslims are called Islamic terrorists, and even have imams to guide them, despite the fact that their Islam is harmful to unbelievers and more moderate Muslims. Yet political Islam is in a way sacrilege when it emphasizes holy war, for war itself suggests that Islam cannot help most men to master their desires and feelings.
Who truly is the loser than the average Muslim man is allowed to beat his wife, his servant or his animal?
If Islam were truly superior to other religions, then why is Mohammad's perfection not habitually emulated? It is surely not a good example for a Muslim man to be waging holy war in these latter days of postmodern life when most of the West is relatively peaceful.
I am not going to go on to rail against the pedophiles who are found among the criminals who hide behind Muhammad but it is sacrilege to abuse young boys and girls. Mohammad (pbuh) did not harm his first wife's slave boy and neither did his wife. Just because a child is mischievous is no reason to use the rod on that child. Isah (sa) warned people not to harm children, who being innocence of adulthood, are destined for heaven due to sudden death.
However, their parents will stand before the Fire while God Almighty shows them how they treated their children. Those parents who were just in their discipline of their children will get reprieve, but woe to any parents who has harmed their children!
Although I do not say any of this as a Muslim but as an apostate to Judeo-Christian religions and an unbeliever of Islam due to my Buddhist origins, none of what I write is more of using the idioms pertaining to Islam to help my Muslim brothers and sisters to widen their understanding of Islam.
For religious extremism is a threat to peace in the world. In America, though, 2.5 percent of all terrorism could be deemed Islamic. That's correct: 97.5 percent of terrorism on American soil was by non-Muslims, mainly Army of God anti-abortion terrorists.
Thus the Islamophobia of America is uncalled for because it would be Christian radicals who are more of a threat to national security than Islamic terrorists, followed by fringe Jewish Defense League terrorists.
The term "evils of capitalism" is bandied about by the Left and the Muslims. This term thus suggests that 911 was actually a precursor to Occupy Wall Street, a critique of globalism. I believe this to be true, rather than using the overused trope of Islamic terrorism.
What if terrorism is actually a warning sign that capitalism is off track? For this lust for money is but a root of all evil, be it miserliness, wars, and even pedophilia. Those criminal terrorists of the Moslem brand know this too, because their Sharia is a way of returning the Middle East to a time before Mohammed (pbuh) while pretending they wish to return to the glory days of Islamic conquest.
I see it as a tragedy, and the members of al-Qaeda are a bunch of men hoodwinked by a charlatan pretending to be an imam. Why, the man is barely a great surgeon! How good can his Islamic jurisprudence truly be?
Ultimately though, I am not a threat to the criminal terrorists. To them I am just an ignorant unbeliever. My words do not count as much before a mullah. Even so, I would fully embrace the evils of capitalism rather than become a Muslim because the criminal terrorists have sullied the name of Mohammed as much as those Islamophobes have.
And yet, the Muslims have all the right in the world to declare that there is no god greater than God.
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20140415
Boston Marathon Bombings Preventable (satire)
So, it turns out most world leaders have committed war crimes since 911. Putin committed it by going after the Chechens.
It is now common knowledge that Chechen militants are being aided by the CIA. However, Putin never says publicly that America is helping the Chechens. He just says that they are terrorists but America calls them freedom fighters.
It is possible that the CIA knew the Boston Bombers had gone militant along with their mother. However, they never acted to stop the bombings. The official word is that they didn't know the Marathon would be targeted.
The reason why I mention the CIA connection is because a male relative of the bombers married a CIA contractor's daughter.
My guess is, the CIA knew and passed on the info to the FBI but because the terrorists were not in the US, they didn't follow up in Chechnya.
So the Boston Marathon bombing was preventable.
This is not a failure of the CIA. Rather, it is a failure of the FBI to anticipate the Boston Marathon would be a target.
As well, it is because there are no Chechens helping the FBI that they didn't go to Chechnya to investigate. This is also why CIA need more Chechens to help them when visiting the small nation.
Now they have kept track of the mother of the bombers, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, because she has radicalized. Her accusations after the bombing hints at it. She denies the brothers played a role in the bombing but were set up by the FBI.
However, Tamerlan's interest in conspiracy theories fed her desire to have deeper spiritual connection with Islam as she and her son bought into the conspiracy that America set 911 up to get the world to hate Muslims.
The truth is, certain Gulf States (Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) fund the spread of Salafi ideology among conservative Muslims in Chechen and Dagestan, throughout the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe.
It is most likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a conspiracy theory militant rather than a home-grown Islamic militant. This would put him in league with the survivalists rather than the Islamists.
Therefore the FBI and DOJ are barking up the wrong tree.
Currently, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held on charges of committing the bombing. He has plead not guilty, having being talked into considering his arrest a conspiracy by the FBI to make Chechen Islamic radicalism as bad as the Salafi-inspired radicalism that motivates al-Qaeda and the global Islamic militancy of the Islamists.
If it is a conspiracy theory that 911 was the cause of Islamophobia, then Zubeidat is correct in that part of her ideology. It is likely that she blames the US government for the events leading to what happened on September 11, 2001, especially the ill-advised bombing of a pharmaceutical factory on Sudan by the US military. After that bombing, it turned out that the factory was never a bomb-making facility. In short, whoever gave them that idea probably assumed that the high security implied munitions rather than medication.
However, al-Qaeda is dead wrong about their rhetoric about that mistake since only a single night watchman died in the bombing, not the many lives lost implied by its leader.
In the case of 911, Zubeidat is wrong about America training the terrorists who brought down the Twin Towers in NYC and almost crashed a plane into the Pentagon. Training on jumbo jet simulators does not imply that the US facilitated their training. It only looks that way when you buy into a conspiracy theory that denies that the US government just routinely ignored intelligence shared by Germany due to the politics of the time.
I would also like to point out that the Bush administration never trusted the CIA before 911 as much as the Democrats obviously trust the intelligence community today.
So it should be interesting how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial plays out, considering that he is hedging his bets on the US Constitution to help him avoid the death penalty or a life sentence for the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Just to play devil's advocate, I have an alternative conspiracy theory about the bombing in Massachusetts: both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were influenced by their mother's conspiracy theory about 911, which she learned by discussing the conspiracy theory contained in books Tamerlan was given by a fellow conspiracy theory believer.
My theory is that the conspiracy theory believers about 911 being an inside job morphed into the Tsarnaev's version in which previous bigotry towards the Muslims inspired the US government to facilitate 911 and the Islamophobia which followed in the years after that horrible day was carefully manufactured by bigots among the religious right who support the Republicans.
For it is bigoted Christians with money and power who donate it to the Islamophobes because of their mutual hatred for Muslims.
Back when the Islamophobes were blaming Islam for 911, I pointed out to a few of them that Sayyid Qutb and the rise of Salafi Islam and Wahabbi ideology inspires the Muslim terrorists aligned with al-Qaeda.
However, Muslim fundamentalism such as Salafi and Wahabbi are not violent at all. Indeed, Sayyid Qutb wrote an anti-American book in Arabic which criticized American women, but was inspired by cultural tradition in Egypt in the 1950s that was even more conservative than America was back then.
Yet Qutb never participated in the Islamist revolution that lead to President Nasser's death after Israel won the war with Egypt. All he did was write a few books that inspired the militants. Indeed, his books later inspired al-Qaeda.
Today, it is Imam al-Sharif who inspires non-violence among former militants. This is how Indonesian and Malaysian Islam is less likely to produce terrorists since Mohammad specifically implied that a Muslim killing a Muslim requires an imam to question the killer until he regrets his sin of killing a fellow believer.
Thus, al Qaeda is not motivated by Mohammad but by ancient battles the early Muslims had to wage in order for Islam to survive in the Middle East, all of them glorified to the point of fanaticism. At that point, the jihadis have lost the greater jihad for the sake of glory fighting the holy war that the lesser jihad they choose inspires.
Even though most Muslims believe in jihad, the term "holy war" actually refers to the Buddhist metaphor about the warrior who kills a thousand enemies having lost the most important battle in a person life was, is and will always be with his ego, not another person.
If you lose that battle in your life, then it is like being a child playing with toys in a burning house. If you cannot find someone wiser than you to change your life around, then the rest of your life will be full of suffering.
For Muslims, Mohammad is wiser than the imams and mullahs. Indeed, he is wiser than the men who ignore the imam's judgement on sharia and put the less wiser choice of oppression against any group they think beneath them, be it women or even Jews. It seems that a Muslim who goes by Sharia and bases his violent ways on a wrong-minded interpretation of hadiths cannot even claim to understand the Koran that he has memorized.
Merely deeming other Muslims less bloodthirsty than them to be unbelievers is done by reason not by God's will. In short, militant ideology is not by God's will but by man's will alone.
Even Mohammad knew this. It is why he waited three years before marrying Aisha. It is also why he never led his people against the Christians.
When Muslims came to them, the Christian Arabs of Yemen left their homeland to become Ghassanids in Syria due to their steadfast belief in Jesus and their unwillingness to become apostate by becoming Muslims - because they feared the Hell that would result from converting to Islam.
Perhaps this is why the Islamophobes are so bigoted against all Muslims, and 911 justifies their hatred of them.
Thus, the Tsarnaevs are seen as this by the Islamophobes: a mother who fled America rather than face possible imprisonment for shoplifting and possibly reconciled with her husband, who left her because she was becoming too Americanized. After 911, she radicalizes not because of Islamist ideology but because of the well-founded belief that America hated Muslims since the US government first backed Israel.
All of the billions of dollars of aid the US government has given Israel only proves that America does not love the Muslims. Small wonder that the development of anti-American sentiments is still a national pastime in many Muslim nations which did not overthrow their Islamist leadership during Arab Spring back in 2011.
In conclusion, the Tsarnaev case must require Dzhokhar's parents to attend, because justice also must be served in Zubeidat's case. She too is a fugitive from American justice for her kleptomania, which suggests the likelihood of a character disturbance. The fact that she bought into a conspiracy theory might be proof of this.
However, she may not return to America because it is likely that she fears the stigma of mental illness even though she might call it an American tool of social control rather than a sincere desire to help the extremely nervous.
We will just have to wait and see how the trial turns out to find out.
As the one year anniversary approaches, this bombing has become the best false flag event ever. Indeed, it beats 9-11. In both cases, foreign powers warned DC about "mad bombers" with 9-11 being forewarned by Germany and the Boston Marathon bombing being forewarned by Russia.
When one looks at the Todashev case, one FBI agent is present with Todashev while the other agent was outside, keeping his friend away. Then after Todashev was shot circa 2326 PM, the agent escorts the friend to a restaurant further away. When the friend returns, Todashev's apartment is covered in police tape.
Judging from the evidence the FBI agents violated standard procedure:
Two agents must be present during any interview with a suspect. Having police with them is not standard. FBI likes to work alone without police because the latter tend to protect their turf, thus contaminating a scene.
This is thus an "assassination" to ensure that Todashev does not expose the Tsarnaev brother as what they are: tentative Muslim "extremists" groomed by agents provocateurs employed by the FBI. Thus, the verifiable evidence in mainstream media is a concocted cover to hide the "truth".
Could it have been a black ops by the CRAFT unit, some of whose members might have murdered a fellow agent that talked to much?
Original post: January 20, 2014 0318H PST
Reference:
Boston Marathon bomber a conspiracy theorist militant:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/07/unlikely-friendship/xQao9NHjkUvtvhTcK1uwCL/story.html
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_and_Tamerlan_Tsarnaev
* Zubaidat's entry in this wikipedia article confirms 911 conspiracy theories as etiology of her growing militancy. This more likely is influenced by Chechen struggle for freedom.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/zubeidat-tsarnaeva-mother-boston-marathon-bombing-suspects_n_3176009.html
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Defender of the Constitution:
http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-defender-of-the-constitution/281363/
Sayyid Qutb:
http://www.kalamullah.com/sayyid-qutb.html
Evidence of possible false flag in Todashev case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibragim_Todashev
The CRAFT are the real culprits:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-220413.html
It is now common knowledge that Chechen militants are being aided by the CIA. However, Putin never says publicly that America is helping the Chechens. He just says that they are terrorists but America calls them freedom fighters.
It is possible that the CIA knew the Boston Bombers had gone militant along with their mother. However, they never acted to stop the bombings. The official word is that they didn't know the Marathon would be targeted.
The reason why I mention the CIA connection is because a male relative of the bombers married a CIA contractor's daughter.
My guess is, the CIA knew and passed on the info to the FBI but because the terrorists were not in the US, they didn't follow up in Chechnya.
So the Boston Marathon bombing was preventable.
This is not a failure of the CIA. Rather, it is a failure of the FBI to anticipate the Boston Marathon would be a target.
As well, it is because there are no Chechens helping the FBI that they didn't go to Chechnya to investigate. This is also why CIA need more Chechens to help them when visiting the small nation.
Now they have kept track of the mother of the bombers, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, because she has radicalized. Her accusations after the bombing hints at it. She denies the brothers played a role in the bombing but were set up by the FBI.
However, Tamerlan's interest in conspiracy theories fed her desire to have deeper spiritual connection with Islam as she and her son bought into the conspiracy that America set 911 up to get the world to hate Muslims.
The truth is, certain Gulf States (Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) fund the spread of Salafi ideology among conservative Muslims in Chechen and Dagestan, throughout the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe.
It is most likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a conspiracy theory militant rather than a home-grown Islamic militant. This would put him in league with the survivalists rather than the Islamists.
Therefore the FBI and DOJ are barking up the wrong tree.
Currently, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held on charges of committing the bombing. He has plead not guilty, having being talked into considering his arrest a conspiracy by the FBI to make Chechen Islamic radicalism as bad as the Salafi-inspired radicalism that motivates al-Qaeda and the global Islamic militancy of the Islamists.
If it is a conspiracy theory that 911 was the cause of Islamophobia, then Zubeidat is correct in that part of her ideology. It is likely that she blames the US government for the events leading to what happened on September 11, 2001, especially the ill-advised bombing of a pharmaceutical factory on Sudan by the US military. After that bombing, it turned out that the factory was never a bomb-making facility. In short, whoever gave them that idea probably assumed that the high security implied munitions rather than medication.
However, al-Qaeda is dead wrong about their rhetoric about that mistake since only a single night watchman died in the bombing, not the many lives lost implied by its leader.
In the case of 911, Zubeidat is wrong about America training the terrorists who brought down the Twin Towers in NYC and almost crashed a plane into the Pentagon. Training on jumbo jet simulators does not imply that the US facilitated their training. It only looks that way when you buy into a conspiracy theory that denies that the US government just routinely ignored intelligence shared by Germany due to the politics of the time.
I would also like to point out that the Bush administration never trusted the CIA before 911 as much as the Democrats obviously trust the intelligence community today.
So it should be interesting how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial plays out, considering that he is hedging his bets on the US Constitution to help him avoid the death penalty or a life sentence for the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Just to play devil's advocate, I have an alternative conspiracy theory about the bombing in Massachusetts: both Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were influenced by their mother's conspiracy theory about 911, which she learned by discussing the conspiracy theory contained in books Tamerlan was given by a fellow conspiracy theory believer.
My theory is that the conspiracy theory believers about 911 being an inside job morphed into the Tsarnaev's version in which previous bigotry towards the Muslims inspired the US government to facilitate 911 and the Islamophobia which followed in the years after that horrible day was carefully manufactured by bigots among the religious right who support the Republicans.
For it is bigoted Christians with money and power who donate it to the Islamophobes because of their mutual hatred for Muslims.
Back when the Islamophobes were blaming Islam for 911, I pointed out to a few of them that Sayyid Qutb and the rise of Salafi Islam and Wahabbi ideology inspires the Muslim terrorists aligned with al-Qaeda.
However, Muslim fundamentalism such as Salafi and Wahabbi are not violent at all. Indeed, Sayyid Qutb wrote an anti-American book in Arabic which criticized American women, but was inspired by cultural tradition in Egypt in the 1950s that was even more conservative than America was back then.
Yet Qutb never participated in the Islamist revolution that lead to President Nasser's death after Israel won the war with Egypt. All he did was write a few books that inspired the militants. Indeed, his books later inspired al-Qaeda.
Today, it is Imam al-Sharif who inspires non-violence among former militants. This is how Indonesian and Malaysian Islam is less likely to produce terrorists since Mohammad specifically implied that a Muslim killing a Muslim requires an imam to question the killer until he regrets his sin of killing a fellow believer.
Thus, al Qaeda is not motivated by Mohammad but by ancient battles the early Muslims had to wage in order for Islam to survive in the Middle East, all of them glorified to the point of fanaticism. At that point, the jihadis have lost the greater jihad for the sake of glory fighting the holy war that the lesser jihad they choose inspires.
Even though most Muslims believe in jihad, the term "holy war" actually refers to the Buddhist metaphor about the warrior who kills a thousand enemies having lost the most important battle in a person life was, is and will always be with his ego, not another person.
If you lose that battle in your life, then it is like being a child playing with toys in a burning house. If you cannot find someone wiser than you to change your life around, then the rest of your life will be full of suffering.
For Muslims, Mohammad is wiser than the imams and mullahs. Indeed, he is wiser than the men who ignore the imam's judgement on sharia and put the less wiser choice of oppression against any group they think beneath them, be it women or even Jews. It seems that a Muslim who goes by Sharia and bases his violent ways on a wrong-minded interpretation of hadiths cannot even claim to understand the Koran that he has memorized.
Merely deeming other Muslims less bloodthirsty than them to be unbelievers is done by reason not by God's will. In short, militant ideology is not by God's will but by man's will alone.
Even Mohammad knew this. It is why he waited three years before marrying Aisha. It is also why he never led his people against the Christians.
When Muslims came to them, the Christian Arabs of Yemen left their homeland to become Ghassanids in Syria due to their steadfast belief in Jesus and their unwillingness to become apostate by becoming Muslims - because they feared the Hell that would result from converting to Islam.
Perhaps this is why the Islamophobes are so bigoted against all Muslims, and 911 justifies their hatred of them.
Thus, the Tsarnaevs are seen as this by the Islamophobes: a mother who fled America rather than face possible imprisonment for shoplifting and possibly reconciled with her husband, who left her because she was becoming too Americanized. After 911, she radicalizes not because of Islamist ideology but because of the well-founded belief that America hated Muslims since the US government first backed Israel.
All of the billions of dollars of aid the US government has given Israel only proves that America does not love the Muslims. Small wonder that the development of anti-American sentiments is still a national pastime in many Muslim nations which did not overthrow their Islamist leadership during Arab Spring back in 2011.
In conclusion, the Tsarnaev case must require Dzhokhar's parents to attend, because justice also must be served in Zubeidat's case. She too is a fugitive from American justice for her kleptomania, which suggests the likelihood of a character disturbance. The fact that she bought into a conspiracy theory might be proof of this.
However, she may not return to America because it is likely that she fears the stigma of mental illness even though she might call it an American tool of social control rather than a sincere desire to help the extremely nervous.
We will just have to wait and see how the trial turns out to find out.
As the one year anniversary approaches, this bombing has become the best false flag event ever. Indeed, it beats 9-11. In both cases, foreign powers warned DC about "mad bombers" with 9-11 being forewarned by Germany and the Boston Marathon bombing being forewarned by Russia.
When one looks at the Todashev case, one FBI agent is present with Todashev while the other agent was outside, keeping his friend away. Then after Todashev was shot circa 2326 PM, the agent escorts the friend to a restaurant further away. When the friend returns, Todashev's apartment is covered in police tape.
Judging from the evidence the FBI agents violated standard procedure:
Two agents must be present during any interview with a suspect. Having police with them is not standard. FBI likes to work alone without police because the latter tend to protect their turf, thus contaminating a scene.
This is thus an "assassination" to ensure that Todashev does not expose the Tsarnaev brother as what they are: tentative Muslim "extremists" groomed by agents provocateurs employed by the FBI. Thus, the verifiable evidence in mainstream media is a concocted cover to hide the "truth".
Could it have been a black ops by the CRAFT unit, some of whose members might have murdered a fellow agent that talked to much?
Original post: January 20, 2014 0318H PST
Reference:
Boston Marathon bomber a conspiracy theorist militant:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/07/unlikely-friendship/xQao9NHjkUvtvhTcK1uwCL/story.html
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_and_Tamerlan_Tsarnaev
* Zubaidat's entry in this wikipedia article confirms 911 conspiracy theories as etiology of her growing militancy. This more likely is influenced by Chechen struggle for freedom.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/zubeidat-tsarnaeva-mother-boston-marathon-bombing-suspects_n_3176009.html
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Defender of the Constitution:
http://m.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-defender-of-the-constitution/281363/
Sayyid Qutb:
http://www.kalamullah.com/sayyid-qutb.html
Evidence of possible false flag in Todashev case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibragim_Todashev
The CRAFT are the real culprits:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-220413.html
20070303
Selling Islam to the Infidels
Muslims may succeed to force non-Muslims (or even enlightened Muslims) in not offending their religion by threatening them with assassinations, bombs and bullets, but increasingly they have a harder time to sell Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance. In fact sincere respect is rarely gained through intimidation. -- Omid Paydar
This quote by Paydar is significant, especially to me. I once asked a Muslim fellow if we could become friends, and discuss Islam according to essence of jihad (religious education of unbeliever).
He consulted with his father, who forbade him to do so. My chance at befriending a Muslim was dashed..
I do not know of any religion, other than some Protestant sect of Christianity, that specifically forbids a believer from being with an unbeliever in such a fashion.
Apart from a strange email discussion with a Maltese Catholic who believed that meditation was the gateway to the Devil, most Christians I have talked to soon stopped talking to me when I expressed my personal philosophy on God with respect to Buddhism.
Indeed, intolerance might the root of the problem Muslims face in today's world. I have found on the whole that there are many different schools of thought in Islam, some of which espouse Paydar's description of intolerance.
On the whole, enlightened Muslims who have incorporated the virtue of loving-kindness are more tolerant of non-Muslims than the Muslims who threaten violence to force everyone else in not offending their religion.
However, mass media has been filtering out the tolerance of enlightened Muslims and focusing on the intolerance of radical Muslims to sell the product called "Muslim terrorists".
This kind of anti-Muslim propaganda contrasts with the message that the majority of Muslims are tolerant of the West.
This quote by Paydar is significant, especially to me. I once asked a Muslim fellow if we could become friends, and discuss Islam according to essence of jihad (religious education of unbeliever).
He consulted with his father, who forbade him to do so. My chance at befriending a Muslim was dashed..
I do not know of any religion, other than some Protestant sect of Christianity, that specifically forbids a believer from being with an unbeliever in such a fashion.
Apart from a strange email discussion with a Maltese Catholic who believed that meditation was the gateway to the Devil, most Christians I have talked to soon stopped talking to me when I expressed my personal philosophy on God with respect to Buddhism.
Indeed, intolerance might the root of the problem Muslims face in today's world. I have found on the whole that there are many different schools of thought in Islam, some of which espouse Paydar's description of intolerance.
On the whole, enlightened Muslims who have incorporated the virtue of loving-kindness are more tolerant of non-Muslims than the Muslims who threaten violence to force everyone else in not offending their religion.
However, mass media has been filtering out the tolerance of enlightened Muslims and focusing on the intolerance of radical Muslims to sell the product called "Muslim terrorists".
This kind of anti-Muslim propaganda contrasts with the message that the majority of Muslims are tolerant of the West.
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