I do think religion is poison and that religion must be treated like a weapon. But this applies to ALL religions, not just Islam. Our species has always been able to, and will always be able to form groups centered around bad claims and seek power through those bad claims.
The best we can do with Islam is to get more of it's members to a Jeffersonian state and more of their liberals and moderates to water it down to a civil tolerant degree. But I do not see it ending overnight. It took 3,000 years for the polytheism of the Egyptians to fall.
I have no compunction having said that, to say fascist theocracies and sexism and the bigotry that holds the East hostage, must always be under the rightful scrutiny and condemnation.
Islam simply is living 200 years in the past. It needs it's own age of Enlightenment. I do see those cracks growing and the ones in Islam who especially kill their own prove our point that it does not deserve any blind value.
The best we can do with Islam is to get more of it's members to a Jeffersonian state and more of their liberals and moderates to water it down to a civil tolerant degree. But I do not see it ending overnight. It took 3,000 years for the polytheism of the Egyptians to fall.
I have no compunction having said that, to say fascist theocracies and sexism and the bigotry that holds the East hostage, must always be under the rightful scrutiny and condemnation.
Islam simply is living 200 years in the past. It needs it's own age of Enlightenment. I do see those cracks growing and the ones in Islam who especially kill their own prove our point that it does not deserve any blind value.
