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So the Islam like a jail once you get in you cann't get out, is it your freedom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Without Salman Rushdie and Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Muslim panel, the panel is a "stacked pro-Islamic deck" with many "deck" members under the direct finacial influence of Iran's oil/blood profits.

Without Salman Rushdie and Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Muslim panel, the panel was a "stacked pro-Islamic deck" with many "deck" members under the direct financial influence of Iran's oil/blood profits.

Dr. Gomaa wrote:

Choice means freedom, and freedom includes the freedom to commit grave sins as long as their harm does not extend to others. This is why I discussed the fact that throughout history the worldly punishment for apostasy in Islam has been applied only to those who, in addition to their apostasy, actively engaged in the subversion of society.

Christopher responds:

Dr. Gomaa has made an important statement concerning apostasy that will unfortunately go over the heads of many. As many scholars like Knut S. Vikor and Dr. Gomaa continue to explain--the meaning and intensity of one's private faith (iman) is not open to judgment by other humans. Thus the criminal pursuit of apostasy is really just another word for "crackdown on political dissent." Since most authoritarian regimes in Dar-al-Islam attempt to co-identify themselves with the orthodox practice of Islam, they use the "charge of apostasy" to help prosecute those who they believe are a threat to their ruling regime. Unfortunately, when outsiders criticize the notion of prosecutable apostasy, they do so from a standpoint of separation of church/state, which is not the operative concept in most predominantly Muslim countries. Even secular Muslim countries like Turkey have kept this same tradition--but instead of prosecuting apostasy, Turkey prosecutes dissidents for "insulting Turkishness"--or what we might call 'apostasy against the nation-state.'

*** Urgent request for binding fatwa ***

Under Islam, it is forbidden to eat pork, as the flesh of the omnivorous swine damages one's purity of character and can transmit disease. Under this rationale, is it nonetheless permissible to eat one's own foot?

Because you might be in trouble.

Rory,

Your stupidity is profound.

Muslims speak out
What Islam says about Violence, Human Rights and Other Religions

Broadly I think we can say they love the first, neglect the second, and deplore the third. Islam is a religion of hate.

Muslims speak out
What Islam says about Violence, Human Rights and Other Religions

Broadly I think we can say they love the first, neglect the second, and deplore the third. Islam is a religion of hate.