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- John Craig
- Virtually everyone who knows John finds him completely tactless and insufferably opinionated. He sees himself as refreshingly honest. That said, this blog is still an excellent way to kill time while putting off work. If you're a newcomer, you might find browsing through the older posts an amusing waste of time as well. John is the author of "Holy Bible Part II: Heaven" under the pseudonym John Morgan.
4 comments:
hmmm not too impressed with that.
Its is a religion with a theology and all that. It knows it is.
Its also a religion that prescribes a code of behaviour and legal system. It doesn't really allow a separation of church and state as Christianity can more easily (give to Cesar what is due unto Cesar and give to God what is due unto God). More difficult with Islam.
That's why Islamism is both a religion and a political movement.
Obviously its not a race or ethnicity- that's just obvious.
Steven --
Taheri's main point is that Islam wants to be given the deference that a religion gets, but at the same time wants to act like a political movement. This obviously isn't true of everyone who practices the religion, but it's true of enough of them that Taheri's argument has to be taken seriously.
Islam is like Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, a total, all-encompassing way of life that dictates your thoughts and actions every waking second. That would make it a cult rather than a mere religion.
Oh yeah I see what you mean.
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