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Originally Posted by Neptunus Rex
My concern is the source of the "rage" over these cartoons. Are they actually personnaly affronted or is their reaction a requirement of their faith?
The former I can understand, but the latter one is the one that scares me. I kind of get the same feeling when I'm in a room with a known sociopath!
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Originally, pictures of "holy people", holy things and gods were forbidden in various religions, to prevent the risk of people falling victim to false idols. Just think of the golden Cow in the bible, or Zen's "anti-tradition" of non-written tradition, Huineng's enligthened burning of books, and the Jews saying the name of God cannot be pronounced. But this current story reveals Islam's demand that sooner or later all mankind and all world have to live to it's rules, for Islam is the truth, and Muslims have the obligation to help Islam "improving" the world. we all here agree that it is totally nuts how Muslims worldwide behave about this. It is ridiculous and tells us that they expect us and demand us to live by their principlesl rules, ignore our own laws and traditiond and that we shall not have any right to refuse Islam. From their perspective it cannot be understood that we do not want to be like them. I say: how could one want to be like them? :lol: Seen that way, I think the uproar has benefits for the West, and I hope it fuses even some more hysteria amongst Muslims - because maybe some people in the West can no longer evade to realize what an egocentric monster they were nursing in their attempts to tame Islam. You cannot tame Islam. It will always try to overcome you. It is part of it's DNA, it's most essential elements of identity. due to it's non-authentic origin it has no basis it can refwer to as the basis of it's foundation, that way, it has no "strong stand" - and because of it's own lacking authenticity it necessarily must feel threatend by ANYTHING; no matter how minor it is, that is not itself, and is different to itself. That'S why Islam has no other option than to subjugate non-islamic things, people, places, so that they cannot doubt Islam anymore and therebay remind it ow it's own many contradictions, weaknesses, and distortions. May I remind you that it started with Muhammad studying Christian and Jewish teachings by himself, and when having done so he thought that now he was on equal terms and same status than their theologists. when he met the Jewsih theologist at medina, they ate him up alive in theological disputes. This led a.) top the masscre of the third Jewish tribe at Medina, when he ordered all males to be slaughtered and all females beeing sent into slavery or harems: an act of revenge by a deeply offended personality, and b.) it led to Muhammads attemnpt to artificially create a thelogy that he constructed by himself and wanted it to be accepted as of not only equal, but superior quality than those theologies that taught him so obviously how little he had to offer to com pare himself to them. From a theologivcal view, I regard muhammad as a narcist imposter. That this creation of a new deity also helped him to secure privileges for himself and moving beyond critizism, I have explained often enough in the past.
In a way it is a most fundamental inferiority complex that islam tries to hide from it's own perception by overcompensating. Islam would no longer ber Islam if it stops to take over non-Islamic world and people. It's part of it's identity, and part of it's most vital mechanism of repression (Verdrängungsmechanismus).
In a thousand years from now on, they will still react in the same hysterical and primitve way they do today if then a new cartoon would be published on a news monitor. It's the conservation of a mediavl attitude of mind, and a medieval state of knowledge.
You cannot tame Islam.
It took me more than fifteen years, and learning much background information and many travellings to finally learn this. It's the most vital and essential thing we in the West need to understand about Islam: you cannot tame Islam.
