studied in the desert: moderate Islam is Islam
Reader comment on item: [The Search for Moderate Islam:] A Reply to Lawrence Auster
in response to reader comment: Kudos to comment by "A ( Keen) Student of Islam"

Submitted by studied in the middle of the Arabian desert (United Arab Emirates), Mar 26, 2007 at 13:02

i have been taught by sages in the middle of the desert transmitting the finest purest form of Islam which is nothing like the offshoot post-colonial/communist breaches of Islam found readily in countries that were established and are sustained by the western hemisphere. (Saudi Arabia).

why hasn't there been much study done on the last Islamic caliphate "Ottoman empire?"
why is there so much disconnected study of Islam going on?
people lacking perception see literalism as truth when its not

the Arabs were profound people of depth, and literalism was never their way. People on this forum take literal translations of Muslim scripture and/or take verses completely out of context just as the ignorant extremists do.

had the colonialists not destroyed much of the intellectual mass of the Muslim world and had militant America not gone to the eastern hemisphere we wouldn't be seeing this breed of new militant Islam that breeds only in ignorance and the US-Sustained Wahabi-movement.
read news from all facets peope... and get out of the group-think.

i've travelled much in the Muslim world and have lived a considerable amount of time in the western hemisphere but i've never come across a type of world ...projected to the American masses.

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