re: #141 SanFranciscoZionist

This kind of thing is a desperate attempt to ward off not unbelief, but modernity and freedom of thought, by getting increasingly more irrational and dogmatic.

These guys are fighting the Englightenment, tooth and nail.

And loss of power & influence.

The thing is, they seem to have completely overlooked the parts about being a good example. If, in their supposed piety, they were models of tolerance, compassion, mercy, forbearance, forgiveness, etc.—things which are emphasized over & over in Islam in addition to the harsher stuff, believe it or not—then they wouldn’t need to be fighting enlightenment… they’d be the very embodiment of it. And their countrymen would respect them & follow their advice out of love, not fear.