IT IS TIME TO GO BEYOND THIS “RELIGION OF PEACE” EVASION/DELUSION. LIKE ALL/MOST RELIGIONS AND IDEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE— ON ITS OWN TERMS. IN ITS CONVENTIONAL FORM AND FORMULATIONS, IT WISHES [AND MOREOVER EXPECTS] THAT EVERYONE WILL JUST HAPPILY ACCEPT ITS ATTITUDES AND VIEWS, ITS BELIEFS AND SELF-VALIDATING PRESUPPOSITIONS— AND, IF THEY DID, IF PEOPLE WOULD ONLY DO THAT, AND EVERYBODY AGREED TO DO SO AND COMPLIED, THEN THERE WOULD BE NO DISAGREEMENT OR CONFLICT... .. SO THERE WOULD BE PEACE, THE PEACE OF ISLAM. THIS THINKING IS SIMPLY INFANTILE, AND PEOPLE SHOULD SAY SO, UNASHAMEDLY AND WITHOUT EVASION. A RELIGION OF PEACE IS NOT ONE THAT DECLARES ITS READINESS TO LIVE HAPPILY WITH OTHERS ON ITS OWN TERMS THAT OTHERS [AS PROOF OF THEIR SINCERITY AND PEACEABLENESS] MUST ACCEPT AND HEED, OR MAKE A SELF-ABASING “SHOW” OF DOING SO; IT IS ONE THAT IS PREPARED TO “SHARE THE WORLD” WITH OTHERS, IN PRINCIPLE WITH EVERYBODY— AND TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THE TERMS UPON WHICH THAT MIGHT BE REASONABLY AND PLAUSIBLY AND DECENTLY DONE— AND WHICH IS READY TO REFORM AND MODIFY, TO RECONFIGURE AND REASSESS ITSELF ACCORDINGLY, IN THE LIGHT OF THAT PROCESS OF THE “EXPLORATION AND NEGOTIATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF DIFFERENCES”.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 06:11:56 +0000
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