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If you can find violence committed by artists seeking to promote their cause, I will condemn violence in the name of art. Isn't the purpose of intellectual pursuits to allow us to civilize the savage beast? To disagree agreeably?
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I have not created a drawing of the prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him). I will not because I cannot trust that the Marja Taghlid or another Muslim believer, based on a whim, would condemn my art as offense and therefore authorize murdering me and my family. There is precedence for my concern. Artists have been murdered and others lives are currently being threatened for their artistic expression. This is a very sad commentary against humanity. This is what you get when you mess with human kind. There will never be a divine blessing for such irrational behavior. Only Godly sorrow and hopefully eventual divine forgiveness. Last edited by tooblue; 05-24-2010 at 07:06 PM. |
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I've said it before. Whether Islam is a "religion of peace" is not a qualitative or philosophical question. It is an empiric question.
Look at the Islamic world--the poverty, the lack of education, the dictators, the religious autocrats, the terrorism, the hatred. Is there a people that is less likely to look in the mirror and so some self-accounting? It is always someone else's fault. The USA. Israel. Britain (both present and old). The West. It makes me sad that the good, reasonable people of those countries have to suffer like they do. |
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And your point, why doesn't Islam encourage introspection? If there's one thing admirable about this site for example, is it shows LDS tendencies to self-analyze and look for internal causes and room for improvement. My speculation is that an Islamic self-evaluation would proceed in this fashion: Blame Israel, blame the US, and then blame any moderate Islamicists who cooperate with westerners. They would characterize the self-analysis as having been done when they blamed the moderate Islamicists. It seems to be a religious movement incapable of self-correction.
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I suppose chemotherapy or excision is in order.
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You two gentlemen talk like there has never been a history of west powers exploiting Iran. And there has never been a war supplied by your money and war machine less than one year after revolution and there has never been any plot to disassemble islamic government. You probably have been too busy introspecting that couldnot see what has been going on around the globe. Excision is already in order,it just hasnot worked yet.
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He stated you would blame the West, and accept no responsibility. Islam never accepts responsibility. You can find a plethora where the West criticizes its own policies as contributing the Middle Eastern mess. Find me something from Islam which criticizes itself, except in cooperating with the West. Again, you proved Mike's point, never accept blame only blame somebody else. Iran and Islam will never know peace until it recognizes it is both part of the problem and solution.
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