Keep up the good work!

In the present context of globalisation, Islam as a religion is confronting issues that were anticipated a long time ago.

Sometimes I feel that religion on its own is timeless, and it is the epoch that determines its value. And every epoch’s inhabitants would consider themselves somewhat different in perspective as the epoch before, but fundamentally, religion calls to attention very similar issues that spans across time.

My only gripe is that it is strange for me to think that given a democratic medium such as the Internet, people are still unable to recognise the diversity in the world and assume that there is only one ‘truth’ and one way to do things.

Islamic democracy is perhaps one of the casualties of people’s misunderstanding. Instead of trying to understand what it means and its outcomes, people should first understand the value of it, because value is something that is universal and timeless.

Barry L
http://www.platypuslayegg.blogspot.com/

I came across it in wikipedia, and it’s interesting that he pointed out how, in my view, radical ideas, no matter how enlightened could amount to bad governance.

What has happened in Iraq is the result of American prejudice with respect to Middle East, similarly to the nation’s confrontational approach to China, in which its people are virtually unanimously sympathetic to the cause of their government.

The problem that the world has with the Islam religion may be that due to our treating it as a ‘religion’. ‘Religion’ to me denotes a somewhat political belonging to a community of common belief and sets of values. Thus, one community would view another community with a set of our prejudices, we find it uncomfortable to approach them, and we judge them through the lens of our values, true to our primitive instinct that served us well in the past to protect our resources from competitors of different tribe.

But humanity has gone so far, and it cannot afford to subject itself to such primitive nature and aim to move beyond that prejudicial bubble. It’s time for us to realise that ‘religion’ was a new concept, a concept that serves to justify one community ownership to a set of intellectual ideas against another, a concept that arises as a way to identify one as different from another, and an instinctive reaction to the encroaching of foreign civilisation. Islam should be viewed instead as a philosophy, perhaps it’s possible even to merge all so-called ‘religions’.

The world is getting more globalised, and this whole world, a population of 6 billion, must be seen as one whole small village. ‘Village’ in a sense that how in the primitive times, humans identify themselves with fellow villagers, and different or even as different from the other village.

Islam, has been victimised into a rigid dogmatic religion, I do not think that was so intended in the first place. I think it was meant to be a spiritual-political change for Arabia, and perhaps Muhammad’s answer to change the whole world for the better. Perhaps Islam wasn’t about its rituals or membership, perhaps Islam was so universal that it’s about its aim for justice, reconciliation of humanity themselves and with transcendent common nature, God, even to the extent that maybe we are actually all Muslims.

I am inclined to believe that you are pagan worshiper of the demonic, satanic, folklore, legendary mystical false god called KINORINGAN who hypothetically begat a daughter called HUMINODUN. If this is what the likes of you (I suppose every member of the KDCA is included in this group) declare to believe in…., then by your admission to the affirmative…., this pagan god called KINORINGAN is your “father” and your “savior”.

For you and all other advocates of KINORINGAN to be saved……, you have no choice but to renounce this demon god which you called your “god”. Every religion has a “god”. Even atheism in itself is a religion; it has a god called “evolution”. Lest you argue that an idea cannot be referred to as a “god”, how do you explain the verse where Jesus Christ referred to “money” (or mammon) as a “god”?

The Jesus Christ of the Christian Bible has said: “I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE….” and that “NO ONE COMES TO ME SAVE MY FATHER BRINGS HIM TO ME..”.

Pilgrim