The teddy bear extravaganza also succeeded in making Islam look utterly ridiculous again.
If it wasn’t the teddy bear, it would have been something else. There’s something inherently ridiculous about being a Muslim in the 21st century. You don’t see people walking around claiming to be followers of the Ancient Greek religion too frequently, do you? Yet, from a purely rational point of view, the Ancient Greek religion is probably a billion times more sane than Islam at its best.
Let us not forget though that Islam is as monolithic as we Muslims ourselves are – hardly at all. Many Muslims rely on reason and their own conscience rather than blindly following religious clerics.
Islam’s monolithic enough for me. That’s why all of it’s called “Islam” and something like 95% of Muslims are either “Sunnis” or “Shites”. This whole “Islam isn’t monolithic” idea is a red herring and similar to arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Spengler described a community as “many hands, one head”. We’re debating whether Islam has a billion “hands” or merely 999 million “hands” or whether it has 1.25 “heads” or 1 “head”. The idea that we need some sort of scientific precision to answer these questions ignores the fact that we aren’t doing a science experiment, we’re deciding whether or not Islam tout court can co-exist on equal footing with people, like myself, who wouldn’t want to be Muslims if I lived another billion years, nor would I submit to dhimmi status.
In the West, we require sex offenders to register with the police when they move to a new neighborhood. Are sex offenders “monolithic”? No, but we still require them all to register as part of their penalty to be paid to society for offending in the first place. So, the idea that somehow a group must be “monolithic” to pose a threat and prompt a response is, as I said, a red herring.
And yes, I am comparing Muslims to sex offenders. If you don’t like it, I don’t care. Maybe Mohammed shouldn’t have married that six-year old girl.
You seem like a nice guy. Why don’t you just drop Islam (which is so philosophically absurd as to be barely worth commenting on) and go to some other religion that doesn’t embarrass you so much. Since Allah doesn’t exist, it’d really be no big deal, other than having to deal with the community pressure you’d obviously face, what with those apostacy laws and all.
