I want to introduce the readers of this blog to an author whose nom de plume is Spengler. He has a very unique view and understanding of the world. His knowledge of the politics, culture, society and religion is vast and his expression on those subjects unambiguous and honest.
In the following article he deals with topic of "Criticism of Islam". The Pastor who threatened to burn Qur'an spurred this article. The article is very timely and also points to one fact: if the adherents of Islam do not take a hard look at and evaluate their faith they will never be able to join the mainstream society. It is a long article but you will find it very rewarding.
Terry Jones, asymmetrical warrior
By Spengler
Asymmetrical warfare was supposed to benefit the insurgents. For the price of a few flying lessons a gang of jihadis brought down the World Trade Center, a terrorist with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and powdered Tang can blow up an airplane, and a few pounds of plutonium can cripple a major city.
Meet the Reverend Terry Jones, asymmetrical warrior. It appears that pinpricks can produce chain reactions in the Islamic world. The threat may be termed asymmetrical because Islam is more vulnerable to theological war than Christianity (or for that matter Judaism).
As the youngest of the major religions (apart from Sikhism), Islam must defend its historical narrative more fiercely than the older religions. Islam never withstood the withering criticism of Enlightenment scholars from Spinoza to the Jesus Project determined to discredit sacred texts. And because the Koran is not a human report of God's word, like the Christian and Jewish bibles, but rather the "uncreated word" of Allah himself, any challenge to its authority cuts at Islam's credibility. The fact that Islam has established neither a Magisterium in the Catholic sense, nor an authoritative tradition like that of Orthodox Judaism, leaves it decentralized, divided and fractious.
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In the following article he deals with topic of "Criticism of Islam". The Pastor who threatened to burn Qur'an spurred this article. The article is very timely and also points to one fact: if the adherents of Islam do not take a hard look at and evaluate their faith they will never be able to join the mainstream society. It is a long article but you will find it very rewarding.
Terry Jones, asymmetrical warrior
By Spengler
Asymmetrical warfare was supposed to benefit the insurgents. For the price of a few flying lessons a gang of jihadis brought down the World Trade Center, a terrorist with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and powdered Tang can blow up an airplane, and a few pounds of plutonium can cripple a major city.
Meet the Reverend Terry Jones, asymmetrical warrior. It appears that pinpricks can produce chain reactions in the Islamic world. The threat may be termed asymmetrical because Islam is more vulnerable to theological war than Christianity (or for that matter Judaism).
As the youngest of the major religions (apart from Sikhism), Islam must defend its historical narrative more fiercely than the older religions. Islam never withstood the withering criticism of Enlightenment scholars from Spinoza to the Jesus Project determined to discredit sacred texts. And because the Koran is not a human report of God's word, like the Christian and Jewish bibles, but rather the "uncreated word" of Allah himself, any challenge to its authority cuts at Islam's credibility. The fact that Islam has established neither a Magisterium in the Catholic sense, nor an authoritative tradition like that of Orthodox Judaism, leaves it decentralized, divided and fractious.
The rest of the article can be read at:
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