Moral courage + Intellectual bankruptcy
October 13, 2014 at 10:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2014 at 10:23 pm by mralstoner.)
Via Sam Harris I found these videos:
http://irshadmanji.com/moral-courage-tv
http://www.youtube.com/user/MoralCourageChannel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcP4OjFh1Q
After watching a few, they seem to be Muslims challenging stuffy convention by using the arts and entertainment. All well and good.
But it all seems intellectually bankrupt, and bound to fail because they fail to address the elephant in the room: the barbaric life of the prophet Mohammed.
The key problem in the Muslim world is that moderates sweep the problem of Mohammed under the rug, and never address it. But that leaves the door open for extremists to come along, open the Koran, and find all the holy justification they need to commit terror and oppress women.
There are 90 verses in the Koran which implore Muslims to imitate Mohammed ("a beautiful pattern of conduct"). So, without somehow intellectually neutering the violent example of Mohammed, all the moral courage in the world is for naught.
I doubt that it's possible to reform Islam at all, let alone with a half-baked approach.
http://irshadmanji.com/moral-courage-tv
http://www.youtube.com/user/MoralCourageChannel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcP4OjFh1Q
After watching a few, they seem to be Muslims challenging stuffy convention by using the arts and entertainment. All well and good.
But it all seems intellectually bankrupt, and bound to fail because they fail to address the elephant in the room: the barbaric life of the prophet Mohammed.
The key problem in the Muslim world is that moderates sweep the problem of Mohammed under the rug, and never address it. But that leaves the door open for extremists to come along, open the Koran, and find all the holy justification they need to commit terror and oppress women.
There are 90 verses in the Koran which implore Muslims to imitate Mohammed ("a beautiful pattern of conduct"). So, without somehow intellectually neutering the violent example of Mohammed, all the moral courage in the world is for naught.
I doubt that it's possible to reform Islam at all, let alone with a half-baked approach.
