Did you know muslim RIGHT-WING fundamentalists are the real problem?

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and that LIBERAL muslims are good people just trying to bring their countries into the modern age?
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Saudi Reformers: Seeking Rights, Paying a Price

"I wrote the latest book just to say that the problem is not from outside, the problem is from ourselves; if we don't change ourselves, nothing will change," Hamad said over coffee in the green marbled lobby of an upscale hotel near Dammam, the city along the Gulf where he lives.

His earlier books challenging sexual and political mores remain banned.

Hence, Hamad writes novels to try to jolt young Saudis into re-examining their own society. Fawaziah al-Bakr, a college professor, agitates for women to question their assigned roles. Hassan al-Maleky, a theologian, argues that no one sect, such as the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia, should hold a monopoly on interpreting Islam.

Here and elsewhere, Arab reformers tend to be isolated dissidents, sometimes labeled heretics. Even those who pursue the mildest forms of protest are slapped with long prison sentences. The right to assemble does not exist, political parties are banned along with nongovernment organizations, and the ruling princes constantly tell editors what they can print.

Local television is almost all clerics, all the time.

http://www.metransparent.com/texts/neil_macfarquhar_saudi_reformers_seeking_rights_paying_a_price.htm

Yupchange,

They are not moderate. They are LIBERALS, even RADICALS in their native countries. They are the good guys.

Right-wing fundies are the bad guys.

IHOP,

And you hate liberals. Big deal. Don't be such a crybaby.

Answer 1

"Moderate" Muslim leaders who serve as apologists for the Islamofascist terrorists are also a big part of the problem. Pointing to a handful of reasonable Muslims means nothing. There were reasonable Germans & Japanese in WW II. It didn't matter then & doesn't matter now.

Answer 2

They have modeled themselves on Hitler. Not coincidentally Hitler had a wee bit of a problem with Jews.

You implication is that the radical Muslims are looked at as left wing because they are supported - at least in comparison to GWB - by the radical left and liberals in the US. I don't recall hearing any accusations that the radical Muslims are left wing tho.

What is more incongruous is that the liberals in the US would support the intolerant extreme right totalitarianism of the radical Muslims. The religious intolerance logically should put the left opposing those Muslims. Atheists fare no better than Jews under Islamic rule. But I don't think there is any logic in the lefts positions. They think short term and have tunnel vision. Nor do I think there are any to many liberal or progressive Muslims anywhere in the world and less so in the middle east.

Answer 3

I find it difficult to conceive of liberals in any religion. People who are drawn to the existence of ultimate authority are conservative in nature, in my opinion. Every religion based on the Revelations believes that mankind must serve the deity, who is lord and master. I don't see how liberalism can exist within a tenet that views mankind as nothing more than a slave to some supreme being.
Your statement that just a small group within Islam is responsible for the violence is true. That knowledge, however, doesn't offer any solution to the madness.

Answer 4

If the religious correct were given any more advantageous effective, it may be time for the left to include entire radicalization. i could help to regulate large anti-fundamentalist protests, blockade their political agencies, inspire widespread not basic artwork and student strikes, and oftentimes get fairly militant to close the right wing agenda down. highly with reference to women folk human beings and gays, who could become the forefront of the recent modern left. fortuitously the impression of the religious correct seems to have peaked already so I gained't could hitch the pink Brigades in spite of everything...:P

Answer 5

Islam is going through a revolution in the midst of WWIII. Those of us who have studied Islam, who have had families formally of Islam, are alternately cheering and crying.

We pray Islam survives as Freedom becomes the major driving force that brings it into the modern age. As it embraces the West again, and becomes another center of the arts, science, and culture, we will celebrate in the streets even as the last of the Islamic dictators falls.

We see which side you've chosen. We will be ready.

Answer 6

The important thing is that people in all societies be free to work through these issues on their own, without interference from imperialistic powers with designs on their resources.

Answer 7

Their right wingers exploit the excesses of our right wingers to their own political advantage at home, and vice versa, sure.

Good luck getting any dedicated right wing lunatic to acknowledge it.

Answer 8

Did you know that right wing or left wing extremism is what causes most world problems.

Answer 9

you know its going to be funny when you grow up, you know like in 25 years. and look back on all the garbage you spew and think "wow nowonder everyone thought I was a partisan hack with no clue"

Answer 10

It's interesting how you get to determine who is "right-wing", and then you can make the right-wingers out to be whoever is bad.

If you start out defining right-wing as whoever is bad, then it should come as no surprise that the bad people turn out to be the right-wingers.