How True!

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), Dec 10, 2009 at 17:56

What gives American leftists the right to pontificate about everyone else's tradition or police other believers' consciences from outside? There are people who pride themselves on never darkening the door of a church, make it a point of honor to denigrate "organized religion", and who can't tell you if Job is in the Old Testament or the New who loudly boast that they really know what Christian theology is all about. Now they're trying to do the same with the Muslims.

At this stage, if there is any internal debate going on about the meaning of Islam, I'd like to know--and from people translating Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Malay--not from people giving political soundbites.

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