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  buzz 4:19 am on August 20, 2009 | 18 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: evolution (28), fatwas (16), god (6), Heresy, Quran (38)

  

  sad bastard

  Another scholar who, with apparently good intentions (?), is completely mixed up about Islam. American Journalist Robert Wright is on the circuit pimpin his scrawl, The Evolution of God like there is no Final Judgement.

  He seems to get Gabriel and God mixed up in his recap of Sura 53: An-Najm. Then he goes on to say that scholars generally agree the Qur’an has been corrupted. OK. Enter Ayatullah with the appropriate bounty and you, Robert, can see if Padma Lakshmi will marry another troll on the run. Good luck with that.

  The Koran describes the glorious being—the angel Gabriel, apparently—coming within “two bows’ length” of Muhammad, after which Gabriel “revealed unto His slave that which He revealed.” At this moment, the Koran tells us, Muhammad’s “heart lied not (in seeing) what it saw.” Maybe not, but this is not a question we are in a position to (More …)

   

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  razib, murtad fitri 12:29 pm on July 3, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Heresy

  how come the ahl-e haqq/yarsan aren’t treated like the bahai in iran?

   
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  abunoor 5:43 pm on December 24, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Heresy, Noah Millman, Religious dialogue (2), tolerance (7)

  Noah Millman has an interesting post at The American Scene responding to posts by Alan Jacobs about inter-religious dialogue. I was especially struck by this bit:

  Religion (as opposed to conscience) is a corporate rather than an individual matter – Milton may have belonged to a sect of one, but most of us who are in any meaningful sense religious are members of corporate bodies extending through time and space. And corporate bodies to exist at all must define their boundaries: this is who we are, this is what we believe, this is how we behave. And this requires an implicitly if not explicitly excluded “not that.” This being the case, if freedom of religion means, most fundamentally, the freedom to be a heretic, it equally means the freedom to declare that the other guy is a heretic. In a very real sense, a social environment that is hostile to religious intolerance must necessarily be hostile to religious freedom.

  The whole post is worth reading since in its discussion of the seeming contradictions between the origins of Hannukah and its role in American society today.