New site explains how social values were “Inspired by Muhammed”
Friday, June 11, 2010 11:10Posted in category Secular Defense
This site - Inspired by Muhammed - designed to educate the public on how islam is supposedly for social justice, environmentalism, etc, unfortunately fails to address any of the current harms being committed by Islamists, nor suggest any remedies so that muslims in the modern world might do a better job of practicing what this group preaches. …In fact, it’s almost single-minded focus on interpreting the koran and early muslim history in such a way that it measures up to our progressive secular values without much reference to what muslim groups are actually doing in today’s society or why they aren’t following these values, is transparently superficial and so rather meaningless.
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Jeff K says:
June 11th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
You over-generalize. There are several types of people who are also Muslims. These types exist in other religions. Some types of people want to expand their religion with violence and threats of violence. Some types of people live in fear of those that want to keep them in a religion with violence. It is not necessary to become a “New Atheist” to “escape” from one religion to another. You only need to be atheist if you think no one is watching your videos on youtube where you claim Muslim countries are a danger because one or another has nuclear weapons. Its the same old atheist elites controlling the bomb everywhere, but alas that’s just my logically-derived opinion. I don’t discount that somewhere in your wild generalizations there might be a grain of truth, but I sincerely doubt it; the left-leaning “New Atheist” movement tries to expand itself through subterfuge, but not violence, but its similar in it’s moralistic compass.
Jeff K says:
June 14th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
A better foil for that site would be to quote the Sudanese apostasy law. (It sets proper context, namely that neither you nor I live in Sudan), but that it derives from Shariah, which I think some very unwelcome people tried to get into Ontario law at one point (2005). Notice the word *some*. A bit like *some* people who want “New Atheist” logic put in secular schools, really.
[Satire on] That’s the kind of logic that’s like when Bertrand Russel calls for the use of nuclear weapons on a non-aggressive state, and then claims that there are no teapots around Pluto, you can be pretty sure there are no teapots in aisle 5 at Canadian Tire, as long as you only shop at Ikea [Satire off]