Post by bjorn on Jun 6, 2008 10:32:31 GMT
In these heated Gougenheim days (galliawatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/petition-or-fatwa-against-gougenheim.html), is is interesting to see someone who goes even further. This time it is Peter BetBasoo, co-founder and director of the Assyrian International News Agency (www.aina.org) at www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=4D818187-782D-4AA9-BEFA-64C5A00D9677.
It is however doubtfull that such articles will end up with more that providing amo for the Political Correct, as BetBasoo continues with "If something cannot be so expropriated, it is often destroyed. The most recent example was the Taliban's destruction of the 2500 year-old Buddhist statues in Afghanistan ."
As the saying goes (or perhaps says), if one is looking for evidence to confirm a general thesis, some will always be found (though I so far haven't found any evidence for that saying).
Let me preface my remarks by saying that I do not claim that Muslims have made no accomplishments. Individual Muslims have been successful in the full range of the human scientific and artistic endeavor. But a closer examination of these successes reveals that they came about because these individuals stepped outside of the Muslim realm. For example, today Muslim scientists and scholars are trained in the West. I claim that Islam is not conducive to the pursuit of rational inquiry, and when Islam asserts itself, it borrows, co-opts and ultimately, when time has passed and memory forgotten, claims that these borrowed and co-opted things were originated by Muslims, not by the native cultures that preceded the Muslims.
It is however doubtfull that such articles will end up with more that providing amo for the Political Correct, as BetBasoo continues with "If something cannot be so expropriated, it is often destroyed. The most recent example was the Taliban's destruction of the 2500 year-old Buddhist statues in Afghanistan ."
As the saying goes (or perhaps says), if one is looking for evidence to confirm a general thesis, some will always be found (though I so far haven't found any evidence for that saying).