tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post2302287622295023596..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: So much for the temperate side of Islam. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-26326128622089959252014-05-16T12:58:49.492-05:002014-05-16T12:58:49.492-05:00The title of your entry suggests that Islam at one...The title of your entry suggests that Islam at one time did have a temperate side. Those of us who know history know that such has NEVER been the case. Those who follow the tenants of Islam are savage murdering thugs. The moderate Muslims are not Muslims. They are secularists who have some Muslim tendencies but that's it. Islam as practiced by the dictates of the Koran is charged to destroy anything unIslamic.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08038508116670615703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-22261639604182320792014-05-16T11:43:22.867-05:002014-05-16T11:43:22.867-05:00Islam is a violent, theocratic political, religiou...Islam is a violent, theocratic political, religious and social system. It is spread through force, and even though many Muslims are individually peaceful, the percentage of violent extremists direct the religion, while moderates tread lightly to avoid being killed. To state some criticism of Islam, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, is to violate the Koran, along with many more infractions designed to suppress and dehumanize people. Christians, Jews, and Secular Muslims are the chief targets of Muslim extremists, but among themselves there is historical on-going bloodshed between Shia and Sunni forms of this religion. I for one see little co-existence possible, and believe if this nation had used our own oil resources, we would not be involved in that part of the world, making alliances with Arab countries which love money but hate the West. One of our so called allies, Saudi Arabia, has fronted money for terrorists throughout the world for decades, but our political amateurs invaded Iraq instead, and then Afghanistan, surely not an area desiring American style Jeffersonian Democracy.John Joseph Flanaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06596324816480709495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-53434470311759601372014-05-16T11:25:17.246-05:002014-05-16T11:25:17.246-05:00Oh, and about those "those liberals who claim...Oh, and about those "those liberals who claim to uphold rights but seem strangely silent when human rights violations," that is easy. <br /><br />They are spineless cowards who believe in nothing except self preservation. Most earth worms have more backbone than they do.<br /><br />Fr. D+<br />Anglican PriestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-79321277055120897072014-05-16T11:22:15.847-05:002014-05-16T11:22:15.847-05:00Dear Pastor Peters,
You said, "Let me say th...Dear Pastor Peters,<br /><br />You said, "Let me say that I want to believe that the fundamentalist radicals distort Islam, that temperate Islam is the norm, that the violence of Koran is a misreading. . ."<br /><br />I believe that this is a fundamental error. We should not "want to believe" anything, but simply take the koran at its face value, along with the rules for its interpretation (specifically, later additions supersede earlier parts). With that approach, the koran is clearly a book of violence, advocating forced conversions and bloodshed, a book of coercion, and entirely the work of a morally depraved, mentally ill man (Mighty Mo), about a false god. "Wanting to believe" is entirely wrong when they tell us so clearly a message contrary to what we "want to believe."<br /><br />Fr. D+<br />Anglican PriestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com