A friend of mine posted something questioning (my interpretation) the apparent hostility towards Islam that we have been expressing lately on this thread.
I would like to respond without breaching confidentiality by expressing my own beliefs, which may make others uncomfortable, but if so, it was not my intention.
I am not anti Muslim. But I am anti Islamist, aka Islamofascist, aka Wahhabist and their ilk.
They are diametrically opposed to everything I hold dear, and they are my sworn enemy.
There is only one God, and everybody who loves and worships God loves and worships the same God.
I would not interfere with their love of God and their worship of God, but they would kill me if they could because I do not love God and worship God the same way they do.
The thing that matters to me the most is my immortal soul. I am nothing without God.
If I cannot worship God as I choose, then my soul is in jeopardy.
I can't help believing this, it is one of the central tenets of my faith.
I could live wearing a burka in public. I could live in seclusion. I could even live without being able to work, assuming that my husband continued to make a good living and did not repudiate me.
If I had to repudiate my understanding of my relationship with God, I could not live.
I won't back down. Osama bin Laden and his compadres can stand me up to the gates of hell, and I won't back down.
I am not looking for a fight, but if they bring it to me, they've got it.
Maybe for some these days one's personal belief in God and one's personal religion are so abstract that it does not make sense to talk about religion this way. But for me, and others like me, it is as important as anything else on earth, and more important than almost anything else. |
