What is a proof?

[EGross]

It gets scarier, and I have had this exact same conversation with other Muslims.

If I lived in Saudi Arabia, and hung out with Osama bin Ladan, and we saw someone standing on a soap box, shouting that Allah requires that the first born son of all Muslim families be put to death to quell his anger, and that Mohammed had done so with his son. The punishment of such blasphemy would be imprisonment, flogging, amputation, hanging, or beheading, depending on the law. He would have been treated like some disgusting thing to be discarded.

Now, when Bin Laden gets up on the same soap box and makes his own declaration of death, he is in no danger of the same punishments, because it is not blasphemy, because all that he has said can be interpreted as valid. The very fact that no Fatwa for his crime of blasphemy was ever made against him is a proof by omission that his words are not so outside of the mainstream, and can find support in a faith of slaves.

Because when you are a slave, and the leadership gives you a command, you do it as a true believer. And so that is why you had several true believers obey Bin Laden, while they paused to pray to Allah, and look forward to their eternal reward for doing God's work. And until a decree for the death of such a person comes from a Mufti from within the faith, then is it not that Islam defines what Osama really is, but the other way around.

Slaves are dangerous.

Muslims are not slaves to other Muslims, only to God

You know that is not entirely correct. Religion, by definition, has heirarchies. And while you may consider yourself a slave only to God, you also are obedient to his eathly judges who direct you. While Jewish Orthodoxy (where I live) has it's p'sak, you guys have your fatwas. It's the same structure and concept, and you obey those from your community.

However, one unique difference with the Muslim version is that a fatwa can declare someone to be murdered/executed, such as someone who makes a tacky movie about Mohammed, or distributing it, or writing "Satanic Verses". And people who would never have considered killing such a person are now moved to do so. And while there may be a few people that might go "that's pretty weird", you have enough with the slave mentality who will blindly follow, with no questions asked.

Part of the problem is the illiteracy rate in the Islamic countries in general. It is a slave mentality just ripe for the picking. Mohammend knew a golden opportunity when he saw it.

So when I say you are a slave to God, I include that you are also a slave to the religious structure that defines your life (and your god)for you.