Radical Ideology's
Friday, February 17, 2006 by -M
I'm getting sick of radical Islam. I never EVER had an issue. But seeing the riots in the Middle East over this cartoon bull shit is making me sick. They even shot a priest just because he was a Christian.Now I blame Jews and Christians for a lot of different things but Islam is totally out of control right now. Between the terror attacks, bombings, riots in France and just the general bull shit from them is getting on my nerves. Now they want the UN to outlaw depictions of Mohammad? What bullshit.
I see it as an oppressive religion. One that actively has plans to enslave the world in to Stone Age times. That's just what I think. I hate all monotheistic religions. My real gripe with conservative radical Islam is the old world non progressive attitude toward homosexuality, women and non-believers. A few years back I was going to a mosque off and on. Reading the Koran I found it to much different than I expected. Watching the men praying I did not and can not understand the attitude towards women. The young women at the mosque were not allowed to be around the men or pray with the men. Now I have few friends who are Muslim and have spent a lot of time with them. They have been telling me how many of the people at the mosque and there family members are becoming more and more traditional with there attitudes towards religion.
When I was younger I spent summers in a town in the Catskills that was a summer retreat for a sect of Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn. The women were also second class in their society. I was shocked at how they had to walk behind the men and could not look or talk to anyone. I have this one friend who has become extremely religious. Going to temple constantly and talking more and more about "God" I'm finding similar attitudes from other Jewish friends and people I meet with work.
I found similar behavior when visiting a Mennonite town in Pennsylvania, the second classing of woman and other repressive religious attitudes. I have been finding more and more radical Christian attitudes as well. America seems to be on this destructive march towards fundamentalism. Just look at the attitude towards gays, fertility and science in this country I just think people should feel as they want but never at the cost of other peoples rights. No GOD would want you to do and say things that physically, socially or mentally hurt others.
Now don't get me wrong, i believe in a creator and other aspects of faith but I detest mindless obedience to a fake interpretation of god's word used to enslave weak people. Take evangelicals, radical Islam and extreme conservative Zionism as a guide for destructive religious ideologies.
I know the creator "what or who ever it is" wants me to do what I think is right. If I don't I must answer for it some how. You are the master of your own world and only you can think for your self. I don't have time to have others tell me who or what to be or think.
Your rant that contrasts radical/fundamentalist islam with the same stripe of fundamental Hassidic (or even ultra-orthodox) Jews is an interesting one. I'm not going to comment on the lack of Jews blowing shit up, because I think that's a straw man.
But I have to agree that both treat their women like crap. I had a friend of a friend who was on the ultra-orthodox side... His wife was not allowed to shake hands or hug other men, and it was clear that she was essentially a house slave. While she did not have to wear a hajib, she did have to shave her head and wear a wig. I guess it's OK for me to jerk off to a vision of her in a wig since it's not her own hair?? :) And all the stuff about non-Jews touching this or that food during preperation, not using an "unclean" oven, etc... Just as silly as much of the crap I hear about Islamic repression of women and non-believers.
I'm no anti-semite, I'm anti-stupid. Any religion that takes rules that were written more to help public health (pork rules, etc.) and then tries to turn that into piety is just ridiculous and idiotic. This is the 21st century after all...