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Monday 12th November 2007 5:40pm [Edited]
Blackwood
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Quote: Frankie Rage @ November 10, 2007, 2:40 AM
Muhammad Abdul Bari said that Muslim principles - including stricter attitudes to drink, sex, marriage, abortion and dress - could improve the country and add more morality.
Judging by the success of Muslim sharia laws in the Middle East, we'd replace all the horror and immorality of democracy, drink and sex with the morality of indiscriminate beatings, intolerant theocracy, gender repression, murders, lynchings, and community flag-burning - all in the name of 'goodness'. But the Muslim Council do seem remarkable shy about bringing such demonstrably 'moral' success to the attention of the West.
I think the message here is: Sod the Renaissance, let's go back to the Dark Ages.
I'm still amazed that certain groups protested against the infamous cartoons (that presented Islam as a violent force) by going out in frenzied mobs and burning down churches and temples throughout the Middle East. That was a lucid and cogent argument, subtly developed by multitudes jumping up and down in the midday sun, slapping their heads.
When will we realise that the place to clean up the world starts within the person not an ideology? Ideologies don't care about individuals. Ideologies care about self-perpetuation. We could end drinking and sex and other 'sins' right now and yet the world would still not become any more moral, while the hearts and minds of the people are unchanged. The moral issue is an internal, voluntary and individual problem that an external compulsory mass ideology can never hope to solve.