Conflict between aspirations & intolerance

Reader comment on item: [Fixing] Islam's Image Problem

Submitted by Joseph Wechsler (United States), Jul 29, 2003 at 21:54

...There is a fundamental conflict between the tolerance of current aspirations and the intolerance pervading Islam as a religious concept advocated by mullahs and preached in all mosques. Islam started as a movement of social impovement, but its morality got stuck in the 7th century and and so did its Weltanschauung. ..

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