Excerpt from my latest posting, a follow-up to this one ... from this source, quoting Tariq Ramadan: "Only Islam can achieve the synthesis between Christianity and humanism, and fill the spiritual void that afflicts the West" ("Islam, le face à face des civilisations," Tawhid, 2001).Tariq Ramadan is the Islamic expert to whom Time Magazine turns and presents to its readers as the European voice of reformist Islam?
And again: "The Koran confirms, completes, and corrects the messages that preceded it" ("Les messages musulmans d´occident"). Some Christian personalities whose charitable works cannot be misconstrued - Mother Teresa, Sister Emanuelle, Abbé Pierre, Fr. Helder Camara - are exceptions who show only that all good people are implicitly Muslims, because true humanism is founded in Koranic revelation. Thus, both directly and through this humanism, the "Muslim City" can be founded upon the earth. "Today the Muslims who live in the West must unite themselves to the revolution of the antiestablishment groups from the moment when the neoliberal capitalist system becomes, for Islam, a theater of war..." ("Pouvoirs," 2003, n. 164).
Read the entire posting at Always On Watch.
I sure would like Tariq Ramadan to point me to the Muslim Mother Theresa.
ReplyDeleteThat's a fucking laugh and a half, isn't it?
Actually, that's a way of attacking Islam which I had never considered. We don't just have to show the evil that Islam perpetrates, but we can also pose the question, "Where are the good charitable Muslims?"
Pastorius,
ReplyDeleteThe charitable acts of Muslims here in the D.C. area are directed toward supporting and trying to convert illegal immigrants.
Other charitable acts are strictly for other Muslims--and even then, slim efforts. Will of Allah and all that.
Ramadan has one helluva nerve claiming that Mother Theresa had a Muslim heart. Are they going to claim credit for everything good on the planet?