- DOING IT WRONG -
Just like that ball mixture, Israeli - Palestinian issues can never be united together. Both sides will eventually choke, but why?
I have three questions. The answers will startle every American, it is time to learn that we are wrong thinkers!
Why did a civilization that produced more books in Muslim Spain in the ninth century than existed in the entirety of of the rest of Europe subside into a civilized torpor, a state of dormancy or inactivity? Why, in Freedom House's annual listing of countries that are "free", there is not a single Arab country listed? Why in 2006 alone, were there more foreign books translated in one European country, Spain, than were translated in the entire foregoing millennium in the entire Muslim world?
The entire civilization in the Islamic world and Southeast Asia threw out the intellectual window the principles of rational inquiry that the Greeks introduced to the West half a millennium before Christ. The collective Muslim ulema, theological leaders, decided it would be too "Dangerous" to allow free inquiry, not just of the Koran itself but of the daily reality of living life before our eyes.
Muslim traditionalists asserted that the "eternal" Koran associated the idea that nothing in creation could be philosophically or scientifically examined without challenging Allah himself. Further, they completely denied that good and evil could be discerned by human reason. Instead, they argued, Allah's nature was, quite simply, his will. Will precedes knowledge itself, which is the exact opposite of Christian thought, as it developed in the West. Christian thought proceeded from the assumption that God himself was reason, and that since all creation had come into being through Christ, the Logos, reason could and should be applied to the examination of all creation.
Muslim theologists insist there was no such thing as cause and effect, everything is entirely subject to God, incapable of acting by itself; it is an instrument in the hand of the Creator. To question this was to commit blasphemy by implying there were limits to Allah's power and authority.
The tragic consequence of this mode of thinking completely collapsed within Islam the spirit of scientific inquiry. No major invention or discovery for over seven centuries has emerged from the Muslim world. This has heavily contributed to the present marginalization of Muslims and their growing sense of injustice and victimhood. The Muslims are their own enemy.
What is the use of reason in the face of an Iranian education ministry official who claimed that the Tom and Jerry cartoons were concocted in the United States to improve the image of mice because, during the 1930s in Europe, Jews were called "dirty mice"?
NO matter how much the Israelis and Palestinans agree upon to have peace, it will never come because the dispirited Muslims will never have inner peace through their own religious beliefs and value system.
A Great Follow-up Book: The Closing of the Muslim Mind by Robert R. Reilly
Muslim traditionalists asserted that the "eternal" Koran associated the idea that nothing in creation could be philosophically or scientifically examined without challenging Allah himself. Further, they completely denied that good and evil could be discerned by human reason. Instead, they argued, Allah's nature was, quite simply, his will. Will precedes knowledge itself, which is the exact opposite of Christian thought, as it developed in the West. Christian thought proceeded from the assumption that God himself was reason, and that since all creation had come into being through Christ, the Logos, reason could and should be applied to the examination of all creation.
Muslim theologists insist there was no such thing as cause and effect, everything is entirely subject to God, incapable of acting by itself; it is an instrument in the hand of the Creator. To question this was to commit blasphemy by implying there were limits to Allah's power and authority.
The tragic consequence of this mode of thinking completely collapsed within Islam the spirit of scientific inquiry. No major invention or discovery for over seven centuries has emerged from the Muslim world. This has heavily contributed to the present marginalization of Muslims and their growing sense of injustice and victimhood. The Muslims are their own enemy.
What is the use of reason in the face of an Iranian education ministry official who claimed that the Tom and Jerry cartoons were concocted in the United States to improve the image of mice because, during the 1930s in Europe, Jews were called "dirty mice"?
NO matter how much the Israelis and Palestinans agree upon to have peace, it will never come because the dispirited Muslims will never have inner peace through their own religious beliefs and value system.
A Great Follow-up Book: The Closing of the Muslim Mind by Robert R. Reilly
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