I’ve read Drima’s site, and it simply confirms my comment above that no exegesis is provided there to refute the murderous interpretation of Islam which many or most Muslims seem to subscribe to globally. Rather, what is presented is a stress on the individual interpretation of Islam that Drima seems to subscribe to. What use then is his contribution, or his commentary above if he simply practices an interpretation that few or no other Muslims share?
In a perfect world where Muslim maniacs weren’t rampaging across the globe murdering, calling for mass extermination, and waging war against all non-Muslim nations and cultures, allowing or tolerating Muslims to practice idiosyncratic versions of their religion would be no problem for most people in the West. But Muslims ARE rampaging in the name of Islam, Muslims ARE murdering in the name of Islam, and Muslims are working across the spectrum to insinuate themselves further and further into “infidel” lands and societies…
What are they doing here? WHY are they coming? This is specially curious, given that many Muslims express revulsion at our society, and claim with wagging fingers that Islam is superior in every way. Why come to the horrific “infidel” lands, lands filled with “unbelievers” in all their satanic decadence if it is so horrible here? Further, Muslims are coming and increasingly insisting that they are here in the West to stay as if we have nothing to say in the matter — as if we have no right to judge them and their religion and their culture, or as if we have no right in our own home to judge whether their values and beliefs are harmful to us or not. Where does this hideous arrogance come from among the Muslims — especially since their cultures of origin show themselves to be genocidally opposed to any beliefs which go “against” Islam.
As a collective community, from France, Canada, the USA, UK, the Philippines, Russia, India, the Muslims are lashing out — they are relentlessly proving their susceptibility to violence in support of Islam, to endless rage at our societies, rage which they concoct and use to justify more violence against us. We also see endless efforts by that Muslim community to subvert and deflect tour efforts to protect ourselves from their terrorism. When we do this, the Muslims have the gall to label US the “unbelievers” and “infidels” in our own lands, they have the gall when we are critical to label US the bigots and “Islamophobes”, they have the gal as we attempt to grapple with the nightmare they’ve brought to our homeland with their heinous primitive religion, to accuse US of being the intolerant ones! It’s just too much.
I have noticed that in response to the comments in the thread above that at his site, Drima also takes special pains to describe the posts above primarily a conflict between theists and atheists — a very deceptive characterization of most of the discussion and most of the criticism leveled at him and hist religion above.
This formulation also cleverly equates the religiosity of himself (such as it is) with that of Christians and Jews, as if all religions are equal. I consider this a grotesque distortion of the facts, and a form of amoral relativism and equivalency nonsense. The world is NOT filled with Christian and Jewish priests exhorting their followers to wage war. The world is NOT filled with millions of Christians and Jews taking to the streets to maim and behead. The world is NOT filled with Christians and Jews threatening to exterminate their enemies…
Whereas the world IS filled with Muslim world leaders and priests exhorting their followers to wage war. The world IS filled with millions of Muslims taking to the streets to maim and behead. The world IS filled with Muslims threatening to exterminate their enemies…
Again, I challenge Drima to provide what is grossly missing from his article above and from his website:
Provide an exegesis of your religion which proves that your syncretistic interpretation of Islam is an accurate interpretation of Islam, and that the so-called ” extremists’ ” interpretation of Islam is incorrect.
Until so-called “moderates” Muslims prove that they have an interpretation of Islam based on the Islamic texts and the life of Islam’s prophet which counters the literal interpretations the Jihadis use consistently to justify their murderous rampage — I will remain a complete skeptic.
Highly individual and exotic interpretations of Islam such as that apparently put forward by Drima are useless. It’s clear they have absolutely no traction among the world’s Muslims, and claims of Islam’s moderatness based on these interpretations are truly red herrings. As such — those supposedly “moderate” Muslims who claim that the extremists have “hijacked” their religion without proving HOW their religion has been “hijacked” are just blowing hot air. Worse — they are perpetuating a flim flam which has worked very well so far among many in the West — that Islam has nothing to do with all the terrorism, totalitarianism, corruption, murder, and backwardness which the world sees wherever Muslims raise their heads and proclaim their religion.
