[sbw123]

Looks like Islamic leaders are adapting to Western thought faster than we thought - they're adopting the nhilistic "it's not my fault" attitude.

[ClearCase_guy]

What makes anyone think Islam has a future?

[Cicero]

Yes. Send their leaders to the University of Paris, Oxford, or Berkeley to bring them into the 21st century. NOT.

[liberallarry]

ping

[Imagine]

Islam is NOT a religion
– it is a CULT OF HATE

ACTION PLAN:

1) Assemble fleet of troop transport vessels in port cities; 2) move, via bus and/or train all US dwelling Muslims (immigrant or American Born Muslims ABM) to said ports; 3) Load all muslims onto ships, send forthwith to any middle east muslim country; 4) Bulldoze all mosques and islamic schools in US;
5) Concurrently, close borders with military; 6) Pop any American brewed beer, gloat over job well accomplished and relax.

[Maceman]

Islam's future?

[LiteKeeper]

INTSUM

[Spruce]

Islam's Future =


EXTINCTION

[angkor]

Once we have set aside the theopolitical discourse we could acknowledge the distinction between Islam as a faith and Islam as an existential reality.

The author is looking so hard for the swamp that he can't see he's standing in it.

Islam has no "existential reality." It is a religion and a faith, period.

The very fact that there is a "Muslim nations" conference suggests that Muslims cannot distinguish politics from religion from "existential reality," which is precisely the problem with Islam.

I think the last "Christian nations" conference was held in about 1450 AD.

[Billthedrill]

The tragic irony is that classical Islam did recognize the existence of domains distinct from theology.

That "classical" Islam was largely a blip in history - its fundamentalist interpretations are that of the Qur'an, which are that there IS NO law other than that recited by Mohammed and interpreted by the mullahs, who are known as "doctors of Islam." That presented a real problem for the Ottomans when technology gave rise to objects and usages clearly not covered by anything in that scripture. It was then that "classical" Islam began to bend the rules a bit. The fundamentalists now in charge of the Islamist factions will have none of that.

If Islam is to survive the moderate, "classical" Muslims must wrest control of that religion's own internal power structure from the violent and militant who now lead it into terrorism and murder in the name of a religion that nominally rejects such things.

[hadaclueonce]

Islam can be a breed of fish with us all swimming up river looking for the light of life.

[Bars4Bill]

Islam can look forward to a glowing future.