The title is kind of a joke, but actually, Zack Ajmal has a post about Islam & evolution. I tend to get way too worked up by this topic…so I asked a polite question that hopefully was not laced with sarcasm. But, I never promised that I wouldn’t unleash Darwin’s wolves! So I challenge GNXP readers to join the fray (in a civil fashion).
Related note: Here is a profile of ex-Muslim Ibn Warraq (via Diana). Religious liberal Khaled Abou El Fadl asserts that “if you know what the Islamophobes and Orientalists believe, this author has nothing original to add.” Since when was being original always so important for an author??? Yes, Warraq’s work reads like a jeremiad, but it offers an insider’s view that is crucial, you can’t doubt his sincerity, you can feel his passion. Robert Spencer might seem like a scold, but Warraq is simply strident. Where Bernard Lewis & co. might hint & gesture at the general direction, Warraq will take a sword and slash through the bullshit to tell you in less decorous language how it really is from his perspective.
Godless comments:
As I’ve said before, I will be happy when “Piss Mohammed” is in museums alongside “Piss Christ”. Islam needs to be rhetorically deconstructed and politically neutered, just like Christianity and Judaism were. I really wouldn’t care if radical Muslims weren’t waging war on the world, but they are. I am not speaking of moderate/secular Muslims like Ikram and Zack, but rather of the nontrivial mass of anti-Western fanatics.
For those who would bring up other religions…Hindutva is likewise alarming and occasionally outright murderous, but there are major differences between militant Hindu nationalism and radical Islam:
Hindus are not exporting violent revolution around the world Hindus in the West are not fifth columnists like Al-Muhajiroun Hinduism has not historically been violent and expansionist Vocal critics and opposition parties to Hindutva exist within India
That said, as an atheist I personally wouldn’t care if there was a display with “Piss Ram”. Anything that angers a fascist like Bal Thackeray is ok with me 🙂
Razib adds: A few points. Pictorial depictions of the prophet are frowned upon in Islam, even the images I’ve seen of him have the face blotted out, so there would probably be a bit of an outcry before it was drenched in urine. As for “piss Ram,” Hindus use cow urine in their traditional medicine and are recommended to drink it because of its sacred properties, so I don’t know how offensive the devil worshippers would find it 😉
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