RE: Islamic schools in Britain teach anti-Semitism
November 23, 2010 at 4:39 am
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2010 at 9:39 am by Anomalocaris.)
(November 23, 2010 at 4:21 am)Rayaan Wrote: There might've been more evil people in the world if there was no Islam.
There might, but there probably won't be. Much of what Islam regards as more "good", the more enlightened civilizations of the world would deem more "bad".
(November 23, 2010 at 4:21 am)Rayaan Wrote: problem is that you guys only like to exaggerate the bad things and ignore the good things about Islam. But of course, you won't find any good in the religion since you believe that all religions are BS anyways.
We might not find any religion that is a net good after weighing the good each offers against the price of superstition each demands, but we definitely find many religions to be less bad than Islam.
(November 23, 2010 at 4:21 am)Rayaan Wrote: You don't even believe in God, an afterlife, and divine wisdom. So, there's no way to show you that there is any good in Islam if you don't believe in it in the first place.
There are ways. If Islam doesn't issue fatwas for insulting the prophet, if Islam doesn't treat nonbelivers like lesser human beings, if the name of Islam does not lend itself so easily to calls of Jihad and glorious explosions, if Islam embrace modernity rather than cling tenaciously to 7th century beliefs that were backwards even for the 7th century, then we might entertain the possibility that there is good in Islam significant enough to warrant notice. As it is Islam offers nothing good that could not be gotten in greater quantities with fewer strings attached from many other sources. Even the solace it purported to offer can be obtained in similar quantities, albeit in slightly different superficial expressions, from numerous other less violent and intransigent traditional deceits of the world. So while offering goods of no great distinction, Islam exacts a particular price in insularity, backwardness, violence on a scale that admits to no large scale equal even when with competitors such as christianity.