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Fellow IBA blogger, Eteraz, has been waxing poetic over at the blog The Anchoress.
Here's the comment I left in response to the post featuring his words:
Ali also blogs at the Infidel Bloggers Alliance. The url for that blog is:
www.ibloga.blogspot.com
I invited Ali to be a part of IBA, because I believe he truly is a reformist Muslim, and he is not a liar. I consider Ali a friend based on our correspondence. I believe he is a charming, intelligent, and passionate person.
He is also creative and poetic, which is what is required of a reformist.
Now, here's the thing, as a poetic thinker, I believe Ali sometimes thinks about things more the way he would like things to be, than the way the are.
That's required of a reformist. He needs to dream a new thing.
But, we need to face the truth at the same time.
Ali is not mentioning here the fact that Jihad is required in the Koran, and it is, in many passages, specified as violence and terror against the Christians and the Jews.
The story of Mohammed's life is that he got increasingly frustrated with the Christians and Jews for rejecting his faith. This is why the latter part of the Koran is predominantly about making war against them.
Ali needs to deal with that fact, admit it, and he, as a reformer, needs to demand change, as much as he waxes poetic.
I can't wait to see what he has to say about that.
Now, I know a lot of the IBA contributors know the Koran much better than I. I think Eteraz has not been entirely honest here. As I note in the email, I think Eteraz is just doing his poetic thing, but honesty is required as well.
Maybe some of you can help out. I'm sure a rollicking discussion can get underway.
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Eteraz Waxes Poetic Over At The Anchoress
Fellow IBA blogger, Eteraz, has been waxing poetic over at the blog The Anchoress.
Here's the comment I left in response to the post featuring his words:
Ali also blogs at the Infidel Bloggers Alliance. The url for that blog is:
www.ibloga.blogspot.com
I invited Ali to be a part of IBA, because I believe he truly is a reformist Muslim, and he is not a liar. I consider Ali a friend based on our correspondence. I believe he is a charming, intelligent, and passionate person.
He is also creative and poetic, which is what is required of a reformist.
Now, here's the thing, as a poetic thinker, I believe Ali sometimes thinks about things more the way he would like things to be, than the way the are.
That's required of a reformist. He needs to dream a new thing.
But, we need to face the truth at the same time.
Ali is not mentioning here the fact that Jihad is required in the Koran, and it is, in many passages, specified as violence and terror against the Christians and the Jews.
The story of Mohammed's life is that he got increasingly frustrated with the Christians and Jews for rejecting his faith. This is why the latter part of the Koran is predominantly about making war against them.
Ali needs to deal with that fact, admit it, and he, as a reformer, needs to demand change, as much as he waxes poetic.
I can't wait to see what he has to say about that.
Now, I know a lot of the IBA contributors know the Koran much better than I. I think Eteraz has not been entirely honest here. As I note in the email, I think Eteraz is just doing his poetic thing, but honesty is required as well.
Maybe some of you can help out. I'm sure a rollicking discussion can get underway.
- The Problem With Stoning Women
Ali Eteraz writes a long post about the stoning of women in Iran. He's against the wretched punishment.One would think that Muslims in the West would support Eteraz but sadly no:My only problem with the stoning sentences is that they are not equally...
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The Anchoress is calling for moderation in response to the latest thwarted terror plot: The news is serious…so why is so much that is being written and spewed forth so wretchedly unserious? Why am I getting such a strong sense that - for some, note,...
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I can't help but thinking of the Public Image song (Public Image? Yes, you know, Johnny Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols), Rise: I could be wrong I could be right I could be black I could be white I could be right I could be wrong I could...
- Alright, Let's Get This Shit Out In The Open
I love this blog, because I think everyone here is a good writer, and some are exceptional writers. Everyone here brings their own perspective, geographical and ideological to the fight against the Jihad. This is great, as far as I am concerned. Now,...
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Baron and Dymphna of Gates of Vienna have been visited by a "moderate Muslim recently named Eteraz. Dymphna seems to find the guy reasonable, but, of late, I have become suspicious of all the "moderate" Muslims who are all of the sudden popping up on...