RE: Tomi Lahren: Does The Koran Advocate Violence?
July 24, 2015 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2015 at 11:24 am by Regina.)
Ask any Muslim "scholar" anthing like "Is Islam violent/misogynist/homophobic etc etc?" you'll never get a straight answer. They know Islam is all of those things, but they won't admit it because they don't want the backlash. Instead they'll twist and sugar-coat it to make it sound nicer or they'll blatantly change the subject. At least the guy in the video has a bit more honesty than most do, I actually don't think he's an idiot, I think there's a fair amount of sense in what he's saying even if he's off on some things.
I think there's something to be said about "the morality of religion" if different people are getting different morality from the same text. If one person reads the Qur'an and genuinely believes it makes them a better, more loving person, while another reads exactly the same text and ends up joining al-shabaab, that means they've already picked their morality and are looking to the religion for validation. That means morality doesn't come from religion.
I think there's something to be said about "the morality of religion" if different people are getting different morality from the same text. If one person reads the Qur'an and genuinely believes it makes them a better, more loving person, while another reads exactly the same text and ends up joining al-shabaab, that means they've already picked their morality and are looking to the religion for validation. That means morality doesn't come from religion.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
