Do you think that someone who struggles with Islamic countries using the death penalty being applied for homosexual acts, apostasy or blasphemy cares whether its sharia or Islamic jurisprudence? I understand the distinction but the result is the same whether the execution is due to sharia or fikq. The person dies.
Nope. But irrelevant. To me, this is all straw man fallacies. And with this kind of argument one could bring a whole bag full of "If this, why not that"s.
What people do has everything to do with Islamophobia and is completely relevant.
Sorry. They are not. Not to this topic.
I think you will have an uphill battle arguing how enlightened the Ottoman Empire was in the nineteenth century but that really is off topic. What people care the most about is what’s happening now.
You want to generalise everything to everything we can have a discussion on that. Please open a new thread. Good.
Islamophobia has everything to do with perception. Does it exist? Of course. Is it a problem? 51 innocent Muslims lost their lives because of it in my country 6 months ago. Islamophobia was no doubt part of the war on terror and the Iraq war. Its become a dominant thread in politics in the Western world. So it affects Muslims and it affects all of us.
So you can respond to another post by saying how irrelevant I’m being. I’ve read your post. What I’m trying to do is understand what Islamophobia really is and more importantly what needs to be done to eradicate it? What absolutely needs to happen is Muslims and non-Muslims working closely together and talking to each other. It requires intellectual honesty on both sides.
Okay. Let me respond directly again.
Irrelevant.
And you can have your intellectual honesty argument again. This is the internet brother and we of course have seen it all right? So no worries.
Again, none of this is relevant to the topic of an industry built on Islamaphobia. You wish to discuss theology of Islam and how murderous it is, please open another thread. All good. You wish to discuss the Bible and Christianity, atheism, whatever you want, please go ahead and open another thread. I was only being respectful trying to answer your queries about "Shariah" which you have not even began to explore because you are too busy looking to say a lot of things, not discuss and understand one thing properly.
One topic at a time. When you go all over the place trying your best to demonise a whole religion and its adherents without getting to the depth one particular topic first it shows a lot of things and its mostly useless. It is like writing a whole book about a million things shallowly without having depth in nothing.
The Buddha said supposedly, "build one six foot well, not six, one foot wells".
(but you won't, as you are from New-Zealand; best with fact)
