[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[Platt Holden]

Ron has nailed it. There's no separation of church and state in Islam.

Platt


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:21 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

>
> Horse said:
> However, I was just wondering why, in a country that, apparently, prides
> itself
> on a constitutional right to freedom of religion, and the practice thereof,
> there should be so much opposition to establishing a mosque in close
> proximity
> to the 9/11 site. I could understand it if it was an Al Qaeda recruitment
> centre
> but it appears to be no more than what it is. A place of religious worship.
> Can't stand these places personally, be they Islamic, Christian, Jewish or
> whatever as places of religion - they're sometimes OK in
> architectural/artistic
> terms but that's about it.
> And a mosque is for the use of Moslem folk to come to worship in a similar
> way
> that Christians and Jews have their places to worship. Would the same
> people who
> object to this mosque object to a Japanese cultural centre in Hawaii, a
> German
> travel agency in Israel or a church in Jerusalem? Or perhaps the Catholic
> church
> should dismantle and recycle their churches where there have been
> practising
> paedophile priests (although that would probably leave very few Catholic
> churches standing).
> It seems to me that there is a degree of hypocrisy on display here in the
> way
> your fellow Americans view and treat the Islamic faith when compared to the
> way
> you treat the Christian and Jewish faiths. The vast majority of Moslems had
> nothing to do with 9/11 and so, in fairness, should not be penalised for
> the way
> in which a very few Moslems belonging to Al Qaeda have behaved. That just
> seems
> reasonable to me.
>
> Ron:
> I believe what has quite a few of us yanks up in arms about the Mosque
> issue is
> the
>
> Theocracy issue. I believe the Mosque is rejected on political grounds not
> religous ones.
>
> Being a particularly complex issue, one that has it's basis in the
> paralysis
> koan RMP
> mentions, a deeper look at what values are being exercised would shed a bit
> more
> light
> on the situation.
>
> One must be careful to distinguish between theocracy and religion, we are
> not at
> war with
> a religion but we are at war with a political ideal.
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