Your "New Age Islam" is not compatible with Islam in its truest form

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17 Feb 2010, NewAgeIslam.Com

Your "New Age Islam" is not compatible with Islam in its truest form

New age Islam"? Look, we appreciate the efforts to pacify your religion, but if you were truly smart you'd realize it's a bunch of BS Muhammad made up to benefit his power and abilities to wage warfare. If you could look outside for just one second, outside of the ancient beliefs you have been told are true, and really thought about it you'd be able to free yourself. Your "New Age Islam" is not compatible with Islam in its truest form, therefore many Muslims will reject it. If I saw what people did in the name of my religion and it was the same as what is done in the name of Islam, I would leave it in an instant. Though, we know that some places will kill you for trying to leave Islam. Islam is simply incompatible with progress. – Toronto Sun --- The comments in Toronto Sun and the postings thereafter seem to be in bad taste.  All religions have some good ideas as well as some aspects which may seem incompatible with the modern rational and secular thinking. At the same time, it is also true that majority of the human race believes in some religion or, the other. Islam has a strong universal appeal which is evident from the fact that a large noumber of people are still embracing Islam. Hence, to reject Islamic ideology straightaway does not help even the cause of secularism.  It is better to interpret the teachings of Islam in the light of the technological and scientific innovations that have taken place in the recent times. Bare criticism will serve no purpose and will be counter productive. In the near future, there seems to be no possibility of the majority of people becoming rational and fully secular. We have to select the second best choice, i.e. reinterpretation of old texts and practices to bring them in tune with the modern concepts of humanism and modernity. --Ashok Sharma URL : http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamLetters_1.aspx?ArticleID=2471 --- Islam is simply incompatible with progress – Toronto Sun New Age Islam"? Look, we appreciate the efforts to pacify your religion, but if you were truly smart you'd realize it's a bunch of BS Muhammad made up to benefit his power and abilities to wage warfare. If you could look outside for just one second, outside of the ancient beliefs you have been told are true, and really thought about it you'd be able to free yourself. Your "New Age Islam" is not compatible with Islam in its truest form, therefore many Muslims will reject it. If I saw what people did in the name of my religion and it was the same as what is done in the name of Islam, I would leave it in an instant. Though, we know that some places will kill you for trying to leave Islam. Islam is simply incompatible with progress. I know you'll retort with something like "but Muhammad was a great and kind man" blah blah blah, but he wasn't. The man killed hundreds of people on his own and invaded villages while making up his rules for his religion along the way. It's really easy to see that Islam is the biggest crock of BS (not that most other religions aren't as well, HOWEVER) Islam has clear instructions to kill non-innocents (non-Muslims) and to lie to advance the cause of Islam (taqqaiya). Many of us in the west are becoming informed about what real (fundamental) Islam is and it is not a pretty thing, not at all. While it is true that Islam is 700 years behind and needs more time to evolve, the rest of the world is becoming VERY impatient. It is good that you are trying to have some sort of reform in Islam take place, but wouldn't it make more sense if you looked at the entire picture of just what "good" this religion has caused and realized that it wasn't worth the trouble? Since this "new age Islam" is different from fundamental Islam, don't you see that it is not Islam at all? It's either Islam, and death, and stagnation, and the oppression of women and all other minorities, or it's not Islam and it's progress, secularism, humanism. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Source: http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2010/02/12/12859576.html?comments_page=2&id=12859581#/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2010/02/12/pf-12859581.html URL: http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamLetters_1.aspx?ArticleID=2471

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Asadullah Syed