HG:
I truly enjoy reading your posts. They are well thought out and well expressed.
You state:
> But how much is too much ? Intolerance begets intolerance and at some point one reaches the end of one's patience...
I know what you are saying. Take the recent events. Not one single Muslim spiritual leader (and I am not talking about the academia - but the regular mullah who can not even count to 10 and yet has millions of Muslim followers) have not come to denounce Osaman Bin Laden. And yet the same Muslims expect the civilized world to think they are a love peaceful bunch of people. I am not referring to all Muslims of course for which a vast majority of them really don’t care about the religion they reluctantly have been born into. At the same time a vast majority of them also have a frame mind and belief that they are God’s gift to the universe.
What angers me really about this vast majority of Muslims with self-illusions of being the superior race, is that they talk so much about educating people on Islam so people can understand what their religion is all about and how it is filled with so much love! Why they don’t try to educate each other on the alleged loving peaceful teachings of Islam, before trying to educate others. And as a non Muslim when you ask any of them about Quran and what it tries to say, they all say Quran is a complex book that needs a life time to study and understand! None of them can ever give you a straight answer to your questions regarding their book, and instead they (under superficial civilized behavior) tell you basically "My son, you dont know what you are talking about, and you better read and understand what Islam is all about" For God;s sake I am asking them - the Muslims - to tell me what their religion is all about and instead they shy away from answering.
And then they talk about taking their civil liberties away (via profiling, etc.) in the West. For Pete’s sake, why they dont go back to their own Islamic countries to have their civil liberties respected under their Islamic laws!!!
As impatient and bitter that I am, I do know one thing for sure. We will need to continue our patience for which tolerating them is part of the very fundamental reasons we - as a free thinking society - continue to prosper morally, economically, politically and socially.
You know Larry Flynt (the publisher of Hustler magazine) said something that was rather profound. He said protecting and tolerating scum bags like him were the very reasons everyone in this free thinking society was protected and viewed equally.
Regards,
- Addi |
