الصفحة الرئيسية - الأسلام الحقيقي.... ومنين اجيبه؟ / سلام السوسنة - أرشيف التعليقات - a different take - A Reader

a different take - A Reader

- a different take

العدد: 11270

A Reader

2009 / 2 / 21 - 03:44
التحكم: الكاتب-ة

Singling out atrocities committed by Algerian, or other contemporary Muslims as living evidence for the wickedness of Islam is no different than fundamentalist Muslims reminding us with the falsehood of Christianity on the basis of the bloodshed perpetrated by European Christians against Muslims during crusades, against Jews during the inspection, or against each others during witch-hunt.

The take-home point is that any idea-no matter how ‘innocent” it might sound- is subject to interpretations that twist it, and extract the utmost violent and murderous meanings out of its otherwise seemingly peaceful appearances. This is a function of the subjective nature of human understanding, and the arbitrariness of language.

The way out of this dilemma is not to attack religion, or for that matter any ideology with which interpretations we disagree, but to reject orthodoxy, and insist on driving home the notion of possible different valid “takes” on the scripture, and encourage dialogue between those interpretations. The final result would almost always favor moderate ones, and

للاطلاع على الموضوع والتعليقات الأخرى انقر على الرابط أدناه:
الأسلام الحقيقي.... ومنين اجيبه؟ / سلام السوسنة