Islam is a working example of failure by design. I don’t mean failure in numbers of adherents. People are actually drawn to Islam precisely because of it’s fundamental flaws. Unlike Christianity which is based upon a relationship with Jesus, what some people love about Islam or any other man-made religion is that it requires lots and lots of work and ritual and doing, doing and doing some more.
The mistake that Islam and all other man-made religions make is in believing that obeying a set of rules or laws creates a righteous person or nation. The reality of human nature is such that it doesn’t matter how many times a day you pray or how many times that you wash your hands or how many laws your country has governing this or that behaviour. Doing the right thing is an inside job. It does not come from external coercion. If, as a leader you've staked your country's future on the belief that laws are going to keep your society safe, then you’d better have a huge and lethal group of people enforcing those laws.
Islam’s mistake is nowhere more obvious than in its laws forcing women to keep their bodies totally covered. Requiring women to cover their bodies so that men aren’t tempted to lust is an idea completely devoid of insight into the workings of the human soul. Every man ever born knows that lust is a function, not of the eyes, but of the inner self. Whether by willful stupidity or just plain ignorance, Mohammad failed to instruct his followers in the truth that not having sex with someone else's wife in no way indicates that you have a right attitude toward women. This is like believing that my attitude toward my fellow human beings is on track because I haven’t killed anyone.
You will know the true condition of a society’s soul by observing what happens when moral constraints are removed. This was obvious in the fall of Saddam Hussein's Iraq or in the fall of New Orleans after the flood. In humans whose hearts are rightly oriented, the police could leave town from now till eternity and the thought of doing crime would be no greater than it was before the law enforcement left. People whose hearts are rightly oriented don't need the threat of a radar-trap or a security camera in order to do what's right.
Islam has not to date nor will it ever figure this out.
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I probably do not fit into the preconceived notion of a “rebel”. I have no visible tattoos and minimal piercing. I do not possess a leather jacket. In fact, when most people look at me, their first thought usually is something along the lines of “oppressed female.” The brave individuals who have mustered the courage to ask me about the way I dress usually have questions like: “Do your parents make you wear that?” or “Don’t you find that really unfair?”
A while back, a couple of girls in Montreal were kicked out of school for dressing like I do. It seems strange that a little piece of cloth would make for such controversy. Perhaps the fear is that I am harboring an Uzi underneath it! Of course, the issue at hand is more than a mere piece of cloth. I am a Muslim woman who, like millions of other Muslim women across the globe, chooses to wear the hijab. And the concept of the hijab, contrary to popular opinion, is actually one of the most fundamental aspects of female empowerment.
When I cover myself, I make it virtually impossible for people to judge me according to the way I look. I cannot be categorized because of my attractiveness or lack thereof.
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http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/525/
Lucy Berrington finds the Muslim Faith is winning Western admirers despite hostile media coverage.
Unprecedented numbers of British people, nearly all of them women, are converting to Islam at a time of deep divisions within the Anglican and Catholic churches.
The rate of conversions has prompted predictions that Islam will rapidly become an important religious force in this country. “Within the next 20 years the number of British converts will equal or overtake the immigrant Muslim community that brought the faith here”, says Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher at a Hull comprehensive and the author of a textbook guide to the Koran. She says: “Islam is as much a world faith as is Roman Catholicism. No one nationality claims it as its own”. Islam is also spreading fast on the continent and in America.
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http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/577/
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