So says Aisha. Me agrees:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a nut job. Yet her clerical detractors never learn: bad press from panting fundamentalists is good press for her. Now, yet another sheikh has joined the ecclesiastical rush to beat the dead Hirsi Ali horse. In the runup to a lecture by Ali at a university near his hometown in Pennsylvania, Imam Fouad ElBayly of the Johnstown Islamic Center had this to say:
She has been identified as one who has defamed the faith. If you come into the faith, you must abide by the laws, and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death.
He then goes on to say that of course one shouldn’t expect Ali to be executed in the US; instead, she should be expedited to an Islamic country for trial and sentencing. “Islam is a very merciful religion if you try to understand it,” he says.
His simpering comes too late to be in any way believable; he has already read out Ali’s death sentence. It’s a pathetic gesture at judicial fairness from a man who has appointed himself judge, jury and would-be executioner.
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I don’t understand why there is even a discussion about a death penalty for apostasy.
Is the Islamic faith so weak that a specific punishment is needed for those who no longer believe?
(East Germany needed a border fence and wall to keep people from leaving. The United States require a border fence to keep people from entering.)
Is the god of Islam so powerless that he needs man to carry out punishments for crimes against the god?
(A “god” is not G-d. If the god of Islam is not as powerful as the god I believe in, the god of Islam remains _a god_ rather than the allmighty Himself.)
That “cleric’s” god is apparently not able to punish the apostate Ali within a Christian country. Weird. Is the Christian god so much stronger that he can prevent the Islamic god from acting?
If an alien being looked at the situation, would it conclude that that cleric’s god is all-powerful and forgiving? Would it conclude that that cleric’s god is the same god as the god of the United States and Israel?
Here’s what I think, and it is extreme: that cleric’s god is the god of Al-Qaeda and Hizbullah. It is the god who wants his followers to bomb mosques and synagogues, to kill Jews and Christians and Muslims, to replace traditional Arab monarchies (run by Muhammed’s family no less) with a new government, and to make Islam and all followers of monotheism look like fundamentalist idiots.
That cleric is a pagan. His demands for a human blood sacrifice are pagan. The one true god doesn’t demand human sacrifices.
He attacks Ali not because she is an atheist but because she doesn’t believe in his god. But no good human being does. That she doesn’t believe in the one true god is perhaps unfortunate, but atheism is probably a good defence against falling under the spell of that new paganism.
So… just had to make this rather religious point now.
Hilarious but interesting perspective Andrew
It’s hilarious, but it’s true, Drima.
Look again at the cartoon protesters and tell me that they are not idolising Muhammed.
Show me a terrorist who blows up, as they often do, a mosque or synagogue, two places (the real) Islam acknowledges as houses of prayer, and tell me that he is more Muslim than pagan.
Show me a “Palestinian” “resistance” fighter who targets children in a kindergarden and explain to me how he follows Muhammed’s teachings rather than the old habit of killing undesired children, which was practiced in pagan Rome.
Explain to me how Ahmadinejad’s call to destroy Israel (the land G-d gave to the Jews) would not affect Jerusalem, the third holiest city of Islam. Is it normal for Muslims to want to destroy holy cities? It is normal for the Iranian pagans.
Look at Saudi-Arabia where tribal law outweighs Islamic law when it comes to marriage and tell me that Arab tribal law is not a pagan relic that Islam sought to replace (for good reason).
In fact you might find, and that is a more general discussion, that many of the more barbaric parts of the Qur’an and Islamic law have been replacing even more barbaric pagan traditions, probably as a compromise.
During the crusades that same paganism called itself Christianity. Now it calls itself Islam. But should I support the notion that a religion based on my own is evil?
Get used to it, Islamic symbolism is now the symbolism of evil, like the crucifix was during the middle ages in Europe at times, like the swastika since the early 20th century.
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