Bosnian imam attacked 7 times over call to stay out of Syria

Started by garbon, January 05, 2015, 02:52:58 PM

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The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Viking on January 07, 2015, 05:45:34 PM
Joan is trying to argue that beheading isn't not not part of islam

Sure its "part of" Islam.
Just as it is also "part of" the European Enlightenment, merci M. Guillotin.  (hat tip Raz)

The real point though seems to have lost on you.  One would think that humanistic liberal Westerners would celebrate the courage of this Imam, who appears intent on inculcating an understanding of Islam that does reject violence and is compatible with liberal values.  But not so Viking.  Because it would seem that for you the enemy is not Islamically-inspired violence, it is Islam itself and therefore any attempt to articulate an Islam that is peaceful and humanistic must be resisted as a danger, because it would allow the "disease" to survive.

And there we part ways.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson