“in worshipping God – the One, Alone and Incomparable in His Majesty and Compassion – lies true freedom; the freedom of becoming and of being free from all false belief and ideology. ”
Dr. Mansur clearly has a perverted sense of freeedom from that defined in the West… The only freedom he avers is one which exists within the blood drenched hatred filled prison of Islam. NO THANKS, Dr. Mansur. Keep your twisted notion of freedom to yourself. Your definition of “freedom” is one of the main ingredients in the Jihadist’s vile creed of murder for the sake of “the truth” according to Muhammad.
We in the West believe an individual must have the freedom to choose. And, by the way, that “cacophony of the here and now” which you seem to utterly abhor is the very essence of the freedom we cherish and enjoy.
We call it “Free Speech”. Get used to it. Your monotony of Islam is the antithesis of this freedom.
“Reform is the capacity of individuals to receive and hold the water of faith, and
grow. ”
This, again, is the epitomy of a type of mindset among religious fanatics. If you don’t tow the line according to their definition of “truth” or “religion” or “belief” or “freedom”, then they do not feel obligated to respect your views, since they consider them devoid of “truth” “freedom” and “belief”.
Kindly keep this kind of narrow minded fanatical bigotry to yourself, Dr. Mansur. Again, it’s part of the problem with all the triumphalist arrogant Jihadi murderers which Islam is disgorging into the world. It’s pure filth. And it’s dangerous.
Finally, “A turning towards God is the first step in reform, and moving towards Him is the process of reform. ”
More triumphalist Islamic propaganda cloaked in moderate sounding but extremely sinister language.
Clearly Islam is an inferior system. It limits the choices and imaginations of its adherents. It impedes the progress of the conscience, and strives to replace true free thought and true free speech and true freedom with a doctrine of control, limits, and immutable laws. Dr. Mansur’s twisted notion of “reform” shows how true reform as we think of it in the West will probably never happen in the Islamic world. We will never see Islam shed its snake skin of violence, treachery, and expansionist triumphalism. These qualities, and many other dark notions lie at the heart of Islam. Dr. Mansur has deftly sidestepped all of these ugly and inconvenient aspects of his “religion” in order to proffer a sanitized version of Islam. If Dr. Mansur is the best example of “moderation” which Muslims have to offer, then fasten your seatbelts — we’re in for a bumpy ride…
Far more ominously, if we believe what our eyes tell us rather what this “moderate” Muslim has attempted to put forth in “Cool waters of the Koran pts. I II & III, Bin Laden clearly has the upper hand among the world’s 1 billion Muslims. Our Dr. Mansur, like all of his ilk, spends all of his time trying to convince and fool we non-Muslims of the wrongness of our observations vis-a-vis Islam. By refusing to take on the rhetoric and Islamic reasoning of his more ardent (and I might add purist and observant) brothers in Islam like Bin Laden of Al Qaida (Sunni) and Nasrallah of Hezbollah or Ahmadinijad of Iran (Shia), he’s turning his back on the realities of our time. It’s not the “infidels” as he defines it who need persuading… It’s all the millions upon millions of murdering Muslim maniacs who need the persuading. Underlying his entire thesis is the notion that if we were only to understand Islam as he does, then there would be no more “extremism” necessary.
Dr. Mansur, it is not WE who are transgressing here — It’s the Muslims who are transgressing against us. And buried in your deflections and your non-arguments are the sinews and currents which feed the very sam Islamic Jihad which is assaulting us from all sides.
You clearly don’t accept “freedom” as we define it — you want desperately to change its definition.
You clearly don’t accept “reform” as we define it — you want desperately to change its definition so your Islam can remain intact, and so you can demand that we change to accommodate it.
Your are conducting Dawa. You are lying. You are conducting Jihad.
The spread of Islam, or Jihad, can happen just as well by frightening people to death, murdering them, or selling little baked goodies at the local Mosque. It’s also Jihad to spend time on blogs inventing convoluted arguments which keep the infidels distracted so Islam can further its relentless creep.
It’s ALL Jihad. ALL Muslims engage in it. It is a primary obligation of every Muslim — to be a good Muslim one must do everything in their power to spread Islam and to enforce Islam’s law over mankind.
No thanks.
I only hope and pray enough of us wake up to the utter poisonousness of your evil creed before you drag the rest of the world down into your hellish sewer of Islam.
