tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435934784036078597.post7421404580456861808..comments2023-09-05T19:59:30.580+08:00Comments on Jason Biggs Kills: The Optimistic NihilistJason Biggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15444467499959690307noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435934784036078597.post-57799400121126745002008-10-18T11:52:00.000+08:002008-10-18T11:52:00.000+08:00Okay. I admit it. I have finally read your blog. F...Okay. I admit it. I have finally read your blog. From top to bottom (or is it bottom to the top? Whatever).<BR/><BR/>Know what? I come to the conclusion that you are ranting about Nothing. Nothing at all. Don't know what makes you so worked up. Are you trying to convert me? Or... is there something else?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16385187783864594091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5435934784036078597.post-58278265794122263562008-10-11T16:32:00.000+08:002008-10-11T16:32:00.000+08:00Hi Jason, I think you're missing a few steps here ...Hi Jason, I think you're missing a few steps here when you talk about Islam, as you remember I'm not a big fan about Islam myself but there are a few points you should remember whilst arguing about Islam.<BR/>The first is the fact that Islam is subjective to the quotas and quotients of its particular society that it inhabits. When you read back there was a struggle between Rationalists and Traditionalists that had resulted in the Traditionalists having the upper hand thus closing all the doors of ijtihad and therefore no new mazhabs can anymore be seen. Interpretations are numerous and overlapping and there is also the question of the Koran which has been created post death of Muhammad saw. I do have to agree with historians on this one, Muhammad is, was a revolutionary leader of his time, along the way his image has been distorted repeatedly into continuum that it becomes unrecognizable and thus the form of Islam that we have today. There have been in many instances such as today Islamic feminism that have reinterpreted the Koran (historians say that the original langue of the Koran was Syriano-Aramaic as Arabic that was in it which was classical Arabic is still apparently new around the time of Muhammad's existence) Therefore when you say the raison d'etre of Islam is subservience to God I kind of disagree, religion in its previous context MUST have served a political, social, economic and unitary ROLE. Religion is created in context of the situation that demands it it does not pop its reared ugly head without meaning or purpose and along the way rigidity is imposed that the religion has difficulty to move or to expand. I understand such populist modern notions that you espouse but I am also concerned with the lack of respect you engender towards OTHER religions for example, paganistic, animistic, Hindu, Buddhist, Judaism, Christianity, etc. It's all and well when we criticize our own religion but when we receive into the picture an image of several diverse religions how is it that you could possibly think to disregard it and kill it altogether? This is after all a part of Human Rights that you speak of. A good example is when the animistic religions of the Semang or Semai of peninsular Malaysia is thrown on the side for the sake of modernity/Islam (I'm saying not just Islam but modernity as well). Have they no right to protect THEIR way of life?Liyana Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01445016640414758325noreply@blogger.com