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Religions > Atheism |
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"Way Back Jack" |
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12 Jun 2007 10:33:18 AM |
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Have You Tried Muslim Gator Ade?? |
A fatwa free-for-all in the Islamic world
By Michael Slackman Published: June 11, 2007
CAIRO: First came the breast-feeding fatwa: It declared that the
Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be
lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times.
Then came the urine fatwa: It said that drinking the urine of the
Prophet Muhammad was deemed a blessing.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/news/fatwa.php
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| User: "David Canzi -- non-mailable" |
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| Title: Re: Have You Tried Muslim Gator Ade?? |
12 Jun 2007 04:54:12 PM |
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(I've deleted the inappropriate groups from the Newsgroups header.)
In article <466ebcbb.17606265@free.teranews.com>,
Way Back Jack <chillin'@home.net> wrote:
A fatwa free-for-all in the Islamic world
By Michael Slackman Published: June 11, 2007
CAIRO: First came the breast-feeding fatwa: It declared that the
Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be
lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times.
Then came the urine fatwa: It said that drinking the urine of the
Prophet Muhammad was deemed a blessing.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/news/fatwa.php
From the IHT article:
|"We were very angered when we heard about the Danish cartoons
|concerning our Prophet," wrote Galal Amin in the newspaper Al
|Masry Al Yom, referring to the 2005 publication of cartoons of the
|Prophet Muhammad that caused an international uproar. "However,
|these two fatwas are harming our Islamic religion and our Prophet
|more than the cartoons."
How can Mohammed be harmed? If he's in heaven, nothing we do
can make it any less wonderful. If he's in hell, nothing we do
can make it any worse. If he's nothing but decomposed remains,
nothing matters to him any more. This is something Muslims,
Christians and atheists can all agree upon: Mohammed is securely
beyond any possibility of being harmed by anything we do.
How can Islam be harmed? A religion isn't alive: it can't be
killed. It has no nerves: it can't feel pain. It has no emotions:
it can't become sad. What can't be harmed can't be threatened.
What can't be threatened has no needs, particularly no need to
be defended. When people say their religion is being threatened,
*they* are the ones feeling threatened, and they're projecting
that feeling onto something unalive and insensate: a mere reified
abstraction.
They think dead people and abstractions, which can't be harmed,
need to be defended by them. Defending the number 3 wouldn't be
any more absurd than that.
Religion is learned insanity.
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David Canzi | Eternal truths come and go. |
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