Sunday, February 12, 2006
Hijacking Islam
A fascinating piece by Iranian author Amir Taheri, which valuable background on where today's Islamic fascists come from...
'GOD? What about him?" the sheik asked with a frown.
We were in a London mosque, discussing the sermons the sheik delivers at Friday congregations. I had asked why God almost never featured in (or, at best, got a cameo role) in sermons that focused almost exclusively on political issues.
For the sheik, what mattered was "the sufferings of our brethren under occupation." In other words: In our Islam, we don't do God — we do Palestine, Kashmir and Iraq!
Here we have a religion without a theology, a secular wolf disguised as a religious lamb.
How did this neo-Islam — a political movement masquerading as religion — come into being, and how can those who know little about Islam distinguish it from the mainstream of the faith? read the rest here: NY Post opinion
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