[Dean's World] Aziz P: "Muslims" Against Sharia

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Posted by Aziz P:
"Muslims" Against Sharia
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1190730540.shtml


   Muslims Against Sharia claims to be a group of muslims who believe,

     - "We, as Muslims, find it abhorrent that Islam is used to murder
     millions of innocent people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike." -
     "Twenty-first century Muslims have two options: we can continue the
     barbaric policies of the seventh century [â¦], or we can reform
     Islam to keep our rich cultural heritage and to cleanse our
     religion from the reviled relics of the past."

   All well and good. What exactly are their prescriptions accordingly?
   Looking at their manifesto, we see these action items:

   Inconsistencies in the Koran: they wrongly assert that the qur'an
   contains many passages that "call for Islamic domination and incite
   violence against non-Muslims." They also want to "change" that.

   The Koran & the Bible: They claim that the Bible and the Torah are
   more pure and that the Qur'an is a corrupted text, stating baldly (and
   falsely on both counts) that "While neither Testament calls for mass
   murder of unbelievers, the Koran does."

   Accepting responsibilities: This is probably the most offensive of all
   - they say that "we (sic) must acknowledge evils done by Muslims in
   the name of Islam and accept responsibility for those evils." Why
   should any muslim accept even one tiny iota of responsibility for evil
   done in the name of the faith by twisted extremists? They follow that
   with another call to censoring "evil passages" in the Qur'an so that
   "future generations of Muslims will not be confused by conflicting
   messages". How benevolent.

   [1]and it goes on and on. It boggles the mind that any muslim would
   capitulate so utterly to the Osama bin Ladens of the world thus. The
   answer to extremism is to expose the false fatwas and selective
   tajweed for what they are, not accord the extremists' warped
   interpretations the status of orthodoxy and try to excise them.

   One more thing. [2]The so-called muslims against Sharia aren't
   actually muslim at all. Among the blog team there is Pamela Geller (of
   the ultrarightwing blog [3]Atlas Shrugs). If there are any true
   muslims at MAS who have some pride in their faith, then why do they
   work alongside someone who [4]explicitly called for Islam to be
   banned?

   With "allies" such as Pamela on board, it's painfully obvious to all
   but the most deluded, naive fools that the true agenda of MAS is to
   attack the principles of Islam from within. These people are far worse
   than the Irshad Manji/Hirsi Ali types who make earnest calls for
   "reform", because the latter are at least honest about what they are
   and what they seek.

References

   1. http://www.reformislam.org/
   2. http://www.freethinker.co.uk/?p=175#more-175
   3. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
   4. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/08/ban-islam-uh-ye.html