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Originally Posted by Immacolata
No, that is so easy. Just blame people's religion and you are free to ignore anything. Follow the money instead. Who gains by this?
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For me it is not even a religion, but a political agenda, aiming at totalitarian control of society, and subjugating societies that are not already part of it by force, violance, war, lies, bribing, deception, infiltration, colonization - whatever it takes. That ruthless Western economists and plutocratic elites and family clans like the Bushs (but also so many others!) make profit by doing opportunistic business with hostile factions does not change the fundemantal queerness in Islamic "thoelogy", it's lack of self-testing and self-analysis, self-reflecting and uncensored theollogical research on the matter of Islam. In Quran school, "studying the Quran/Islam" means effectively only this: learning it word by word (the word quran has a linguistcal root leading to a translated meaning of "recitation"), copying the teachers comments uncritically, not raising questions about it. Like I just wrote yesterday: not asking "is the quran right?" but "Why is it that the quran is always right?"
So, you can rightfully criticise both Islam and western plutocratic structures (what I do, btw.), but do not lead back one problem to the other. You are dealing with two independant problems, not one that is also causing the other. The problem with Islam is very much the religion and teaching itself, the content, the message, the ideology; the demand and self-perception of being for the best of all mankind, so that it is even in mankind's interest to be subjugated by Islam. that's why it sees no harm in using force against infidels. We infidels must be forced into our luck, you see. It does not compare to any other religion.