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[New York Sun] Youssef Ibrahim - On Thanksgiving Day, a Palestinian Arab woman of 61 blew herself up after recording a video saying, "I offer myself as a sacrifice to God and the homeland." At her funeral, two of her sons praised their mother and expressed the wish that some of her grandchildren - their own children, who were standing nearby - would kill themselves one day, too. Instead of shock and awe at the multiple layers of dehumanization in all this, the woman was praised widely as a martyr and an idol from one end of the Muslim world to the other. Herein lies Islam's intellectual problem. Where jurisprudence is offered nowadays in Islam, it is designed not to advance people to a higher moral plane, but to egg them on to killing, suicide, and a cult of death. Such, then, are the traumas of the Muslim mind these days as it travels through a dark world of mayhem and confusion. It would be condescending for the West to propose solutions to what is essentially an internal debate. 2006-11-29 01:00:00Full Article
Islam's Intellectual Problem
[New York Sun] Youssef Ibrahim - On Thanksgiving Day, a Palestinian Arab woman of 61 blew herself up after recording a video saying, "I offer myself as a sacrifice to God and the homeland." At her funeral, two of her sons praised their mother and expressed the wish that some of her grandchildren - their own children, who were standing nearby - would kill themselves one day, too. Instead of shock and awe at the multiple layers of dehumanization in all this, the woman was praised widely as a martyr and an idol from one end of the Muslim world to the other. Herein lies Islam's intellectual problem. Where jurisprudence is offered nowadays in Islam, it is designed not to advance people to a higher moral plane, but to egg them on to killing, suicide, and a cult of death. Such, then, are the traumas of the Muslim mind these days as it travels through a dark world of mayhem and confusion. It would be condescending for the West to propose solutions to what is essentially an internal debate. 2006-11-29 01:00:00Full Article
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