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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (143861)4/6/2002 5:16:38 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) of 1580040
 
Re: I have very little interest in liberal post-modern interpretations of holy texts. I want to see strong arguments, not Clintonese like "It all depends on what your definition of 'jihad' is."

In this case, I think the issue is one of "what your definition of X is."

Just as the Bible of the Catholic Church doesn't instruct priests to molest young boys, neither does the Koran explicitly direct that certain acts involving C4 explosive and restaurants be performed. But it is important for us to remember that Islamic clergy don't have a monopoly on screw-ups. The gang of pederasts that found a home in the Catholic church shouldn't be forgotten, and I've no doubt they managed to justify their actions to themselves and each other as somehow blessed for their "special circumstances."

It's the micro-cultural interpretation of those (and other) texts that results in problems - the definition of "is", as it were. That's why in the post I made a while ago, I referred to the "culture" that was producing the terrorists, and that it was not a good idea to make that culture economically successful by paying Saudi Arabian sheiks huge sums for oil they and their culture neither discovered nor produce.

And it's not necessarily Islamic beliefs that are the problem, but rather the interpretation and implementation of those beliefs by those cultures. The definition of "is", as it were.

Post 9/11, I'm convinced that the culture over there is a bad one, and that we should cease making it an almost omnipotently wealthy one.
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