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A world without Muslims will result in a world without fatwas.
No Muslims, no terror. Bottom line.
Freedom is not a concept any Muslim really understands, because in Islam there is no such thing as free will. Allah’s will is all, and Allah’s will is capricious and inscrutable.
Freedom as we understand it today, including freedom as agnostics understand it, was basically a discovery of Judaism and Christianity. Regretably, Muhammed had no interest in freedom, preferring to enslave those he conquered.
The God of Israel offers His people freedom to choose whether or not to obey the Covenant. If they obey, they will be happy; if they disobey, they will be miserable, but they are still given the freedom to choose.
“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known” (Deuteronomy, 11:26-28).
Free will entered western civilization mainly through the influence of Christianity, which in turn grew out of Judaism. Those (like Philip Pullman, for instance) who think that Christianity is a tyrannical religion are sadly mistaken. Without it, they wouldn’t even have the concept of freedom.
I have a problem with fatwas when I eat beans.