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E-PrinceAs a recent alumna of the Near Eastern studies department and a current student of religion in America, I have been following with interest the developments pertaining to last week’s canceled event with Nonie Darwish.
Initially, I was relieved ...
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Political correctness is essentially anti-knowledge. Being politically correct means that one must ignore information that leads to conclusions that cast "minorities" in a less than favorable light. Consequently, however, ignoring the facts means that what's wrong in society cannot be corrected.
One reason PC endures is the hold it has in the workplace. Ben Tillman pointed out that coworkers of Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who went on a shooting spree, failed to report him to their superiors not because they held politically-correct beliefs (though they might have actually believed them), but because anyone in the workplace is well aware of the consequences of noticing bad qualities in a "minority". We might call this the Human Resources Rule of PC: notice a hatefact, lose your job.
Empirical context, informants and sources can be found in the Quran. Your concern about a "far right agenda" supersedes your concern for the horrors in your "laundry list".
>>the now-common laundry list — child marriage, forced marriage, polygamy allowances, permission for wife-beating, the husband’s right to unilateral divorce, the impossibility of proving rape and honor killings — the last of which, according to Darwish, is “the right of the family” over the female family member who was raped. As one might expect, Darwish provides no empirical context, no informants and no indication of sources.<<
“In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE (Adam's capital letters)….Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant…While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men.”
John Quincy Adams
And he [Jesus] declared, that the enjoyment of felicity in the world hereafter, would be reward of the practice of benevolence here. His whole law was resolvable into the precept of love; peace on earth – good will toward man, was the early object of his mission; and the authoritative demonstration of the immortality of man, was that, which constituted the more than earthly tribute of glory to God in the highest… The first conquest of the religion of Jesus, was over the unsocial passions of his disciples. It elevated the standard of the human character in the scale of existence…On the Christian system of morals, man is an immortal spirit, confined for a short space of time, in an earthly tabernacle. Kindness to his fellow mortals embraces the whole compass of his duties upon earth, and the whole promise of happiness to his spirit hereafter. THE ESSENCE OF THIS DOCTRINE IS, TO EXALT THE SPIRITUAL OVER THE BRUTAL PART OF HIS NATURE." (Adam's capital letters)
LOL these comments are a case study in ignorance.
great article celene!
Darwish is right. Invite her back to speak the truth.
@Patrick Henry: do you think adams was a little bit prejuidiced, to say the least? and the ommitted black marks against christianity would be what, exactly?
ms. lizzio: information and clarification are always more than welcome. thank you for this essay.
Intellectually dishonest cowards. You shame the liberal arts education you seek, which shall remain sought without challenge and debate. Cowards.
Thomas Jefferson & The Religion of Peace:
In March 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). Upon inquiring "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied:
It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every muslim who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise. He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once. [2] [3]
Jefferson reported the conversation to Secretary of State John Jay, who submitted the Ambassador's comments and offer to Congress. Jefferson argued that paying tribute would encourage more attacks. Although John Adams agreed with Jefferson, he believed that circumstances forced the U.S. to pay tribute until an adequate navy could be built.
Winston Churchill's Views on The Religion of Peace:
http://www.islam-watch.org/AdrianMorgan/Winston...