tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503986435514614182.post5915676352128282949..comments2024-02-18T23:52:40.165-08:00Comments on Citizen Warrior: Why You Should Read the Quran and Discover the Disturbing Truth For YourselfCitizen Warriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06265844262699107352noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503986435514614182.post-26948701189475270242010-10-17T01:12:57.918-07:002010-10-17T01:12:57.918-07:00Two persons read quran and made this change! One w...Two persons read quran and made this change! One was muslim and one non-muslim! A good read:<br /><br />http://santoshbhatt.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/from-mosque-to-sanatan-dharma/Santoshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503986435514614182.post-31105156907866343492010-10-12T23:02:30.864-07:002010-10-12T23:02:30.864-07:00Excellent post.
Re the GZM controversy:
Rauf: &q...Excellent post.<br /><br />Re the GZM controversy:<br /><br />Rauf: "I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism, and Hamas has committed acts of terrorism."<br /><br />Why does he refuse to directly connect the verb "condemn" with the noun, "Hamas"? "I condemn Hamas."<br /><br />Why does he instead turn his answer into the beginning of a syllogism, where he states only the two premises, and then leaves it to us to assume he is also making the syllogistic deduction that he condemns Hamas? Why does he refuse to actually say he condemns Hamas?<br /><br />It's interesting in this context to note that Ibn Taymiyyah, a Muslim thinker influential on the Muslim Brotherhood, Wahabism, and Salafism, thought that syllogism was an inferior and uncertain form of logic. <br /><br />Is Rauf, by stating only those two premises, but refusing to state the conclusion, counting on the unconscious assumption Westerners will make that he, like them, believes in the validity of syllogism? But what if he doesn't believe in syllogism, and does not think the deductive conclusion follows necessarily? <br /><br />Is Rauf telegraphing to Wahabist and other Islamic scholars that he doesn't mean what he seems to be saying to Westerners about Hamas?<br /><br />In any event, I think Rauf's above statement is part of playing a double-game. By leaving the conclusion unspoken, he telegraphs to the world's numerous Muslim Hamas supporters that he is resisting actually saying it. He's telling them that he is answering under duress, but fundamentally still on their side. That's why he refuses to come right out and say it. But naive Westerners assume he is, like them, drawing the obvious deductive conclusion.<br /><br />If I'm being overly suspicious, well, that's what Rauf deserves for refusing to speak simply and directly in a situation where trust is obviously in short supply.Traehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09997009621742454158noreply@blogger.com