"For the fourteen centuries of Islam's existence, non-Muslims have, in the main, studied it mainly to combat it. Where such ulterior motive was absent, Western study of Islam has been 'scientific' and 'empirical' to the point of missing the meaning of piety, ethicality, and sense of beauty that constitute the core of Islamic religiosity. The unprejudiced study of the history of religious discipline, which normally aims at understanding this religiosity in its moment of action and expression, of growth and consummation, was never aimed at. Not only have the historian of religions not been interested in such a pursuit, but their discipline has as yet not developed the methodological tools requisite to the undertaking".[179]
RE:MISUNDERSTANDING ISLAM
by Secular Indian on Mar 20, 2007 05:36 AM Permalink
The obvious question to ask is, Why that is the case? Because it's shallow doctrine of killing non-believers and spreading Arab imperialism is just too obvious, doesn't need a scholar to figure it out. Why is it that it's only Muslims that have to keep shouting that it's a religion of peace, if it were shouldn't it be obvious. Till you people acknowledge the killing and carnage in the name of Islam and fix it, you can keep shouting, no one will actually believe you. Going by a modern example, in countries where "pure" Islam was and is practiced Afghanistan and Saudia Arabia, the evidence of their barbarism and intolerance is there for all to see. In Afghanistan the non-Muslims were made to wear yellow arm bands, just like the Nazi's forced the Jews to wear a yellow star in Germany. The Nazi ideology of a master race is no different from Islam, which aims for a master religion and is willing to go to any length to enforce it and where killing and lying are justifiable means.
