lydamorehouse | (Reply)

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There is tension, for sure. I don't think any religion based on ideas/words written thousands of years ago isn't going to have some kind of tension with modern society, you know?

But one of the things I like about the article I linked to is that it points out that the BIGGER problems aren't so much with what is _actually_ written in the Qur'an, but how political entities percieve those verses and have put them into practice in their countries/societies/cultures.

One of the problems I had with what I read in Moon's post is that I felt as though she (like a lot of Americans) painted "Islam" with a brush so wide that it makes no real sense.

Blaming "Islam" for the 9/11 attacks is like blaming Christianity for IRA bombings.

Also, Islam is as big and diverse as Christianity: a Christian Unitarian is not the same as an Opus Dei Catholic -- and a militant Shi'ite is nothing like a Sufi, though both are Muslims.

But I've stayed away from a lot of this discussion because I want to only talk about what she actually said... and as you so rightly point out, it's spiraled WAY out from there.

I still think WisCON made the right choice. As my friend Eleanor is fond of pointing out, if you replace "Jew" (or gay or African-American) for "Muslim" in her post... well, I can't imagine people defendig her quite to quickly.