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Questioning Whether Islam Is Religion of Peace

Submitted by David Kleykamp, Jul 9, 2007 01:58

Mr. Ibrahim's editorial is clear, succinct, and honest. It also has the virtue of being true. Thanks to the NY Sun for having the courage to publish this brave man's views.

He is not attacking Islam, he is attacking blind, fanatical servitude to fundamentalist teachings whatever the source. This is true for all religions and secular ideologies. The West went through this painfully during the 18th century and emerged much better for it, though religious faith needed to adapt and is still adapting today. Communism fell on its face because of its intrangience to its foolish ideology. Islam has yet to successfully recognize this similar need for modernization and change. It fights a daily jihad against such change. The challenge is to find a means of making Islam tolerant. So tolerant that the many hundreds of Voltaires and Humes that secretly live in the Middle East today will be willing and able to come out of the closet.

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Dear Mr. Ibrahim We in the Muslim world need to be saved from those who preach evil. We need to persecute... [MORE]	sultansq@hotmail.com	Jul 10, 2007 10:08
Strange how when Israel commits all those crimes and massacres (which has been the case for the past sixty years)... [MORE]	Folan	Jul 10, 2007 08:44
Raising the bar further, most Muslim scholarship of today maintains the refrain that Islam is not meant to be another... [MORE]	notawhitegal	Jul 10, 2007 02:44
Hathout is just as fanatical about spreading islam as the terrorists, he's just fighting the battle on a different front. [MORE]	Kylie	Jul 10, 2007 01:47
This is merely an apologist smokescreen to detract from the fact that Islam is NOT a religion of peace. "Westernized"... [MORE]	Julie	Jul 9, 2007 16:35
How this kind of commentary can be seen as exceptional or extreme in a world perpetually held to ransom and... [MORE]	Michael McDonald	Jul 9, 2007 15:34
Al Qaeda jihadis follow the Sunnah(the example of Mohammed) and the Koran explicitly. That is why in a debate about... [MORE]	Elizabeth	Jul 9, 2007 14:23
Reasonable Muslims now agree that when a religion veers so far off course, it loses immunity to inquisition. "We ought... [MORE]	kaosktrl	Jul 9, 2007 12:17
This is known in Islam as "Taqiyyah". The word "al-Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings,... [MORE]	Paul Becker	Jul 9, 2007 21:29
Bravo ! Excellent column by a brave writer. It is about time muslims took a good hard look at what... [MORE]	Anne Martin	Jul 9, 2007 12:16
Mr. Ibrahim's editorial is clear, succinct, and honest. It also has the virtue of being true. Thanks to the NY...	David Kleykamp	Jul 9, 2007 01:58
Having had the privilege of living and traveling in the Muslim world, living in Lebanon and Morocco – as a... [MORE]	James	Jul 9, 2007 18:20
Something about your post does not ring true James. You claim that your wife is a practicising Muslim. If that is... [MORE]	Zarin	Jul 9, 2007 19:34
The basis of James's commentary, that Islam is primarily a personal or community religion, is highly misleading. As one who... [MORE]	spinifex	Jul 10, 2007 00:11
What great news is the terror suspect who died in Glasgow from burn wounds. Pitty is he is from Bangalore... [MORE]	Dave	Aug 3, 2007 05:41