Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Reza Aslan Cannot Be Trusted" video.

  1. ***** You don't need a degree in anything to speak on any matter. It is funny how this is always brought up by people outside of academia or with lacking credentials themselves. Arguments stand on their own. Not on authority. That is what you should begin to understand. Aslan gets criticized because he ponders on his authority.
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  2. OsefKincaid Harris views on this also summarize mine pretty well. Maybe moderates are serious in their religiosity or theism, but definitely not in their Islam. When I was a moderate Christian, I had made Christianity a label for my humanism - I didn't take any of the scripture seriously, but little parts that fit my ideology. My god was an incarnation of my highest ideals and had nothing to do with the Abrahamic god. I wouldn't say moderate Muslims aren't sincere in anything, but they are definitely - and fortunately - not sincere in Islam.
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  3. "Creative writing", hm? That explains a lot of his comments on Sam Harris.
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  4. OsefKincaid Here we go again. You completely misrepresent the teachings of Islam. Cherrypicking the holy scripture for the best parts instead of reading it by what it means to say and spitting on the graves of all people, who have been victims to the pious.
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  5. OsefKincaid It is lunacy to claim that women's testimony being valued half as much as men's only applies in wartimes. Slavery is obviously practiced even after the fighting is over.
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  6. ***** That didn't even make sense. You cannot write the way you talk. Instead you need to make proper sentences here to be understood. Anyways it is not about authority, but about what is true. Islam being the #1 supporting factor of female genital mutilation is obvious to anyone, who has ever looked into the issue.
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  7.  @FahimAhmed-xj9lq  Nazism isn't a monolith either. There is Christian Nazis, pagan Nazis, reform Nazis, etc
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  8. OsefKincaid I believed in the same lies as you. That the holy books were mostly contradictory and contained about as much good passages as bad ones. Reading the Quran got rid of that prejudgement. The teachings of Mohammed align with the historical behavior of Muslims and the atrocities committed by Islamists today. Further there is the example of Mohammed himself: He was a warmonger, slaver and rapist.
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  9. OsefKincaid They don't hinder you from forming coherent instructions. You can completely omit every contradictory part and the rest is still horribly misanthropic. There is no statement that challenges the submission of a woman to her family / husband. There is no statement that challenges slavery. People radicalize themselves by taking Islam's teachings seriously. They are told that obeying god and following Islam is a good thing for all their lives; that sets them up for the most horrendous atrocities when they begin to follow the prophet instead of the poorly constructed excuses of moderates.
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  10.  @PokettoManStar  The defense of Islam. The support of nationalism (if it's not Western). Being sex-negative. Identitarianism. There is plenty of phenomena on the left that motivate the label regressive.
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  11. ***** I agree, but I wouldn't call it "literalism". What is really happening is that people take the scripture by it's meaning, by what it tries to convey.
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  12. ***** "I defined literalism as those that believe the Quran to be the absolute word of God." Oh, then we are in agreement there.
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  13.  @RedLionGenetics  If you don't have something to reply just shut up. You made "your side" appear really weak.
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  14.  @OsefKincaid  Let me also say something after four years. : D I just read my old comments and I want to clarify that I don't agree with Harris and Navaz when it comes to their goals. I think Islam should be attacked, not "reformed". I think reform of faith based religions is dirty trick and inevitably backfires. It's a devil's bargain, procrastinating on the confrontation with unhealthy habits of mind.
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  15.  @OsefKincaid  I don't see how anything has changed. The purity-checking part of the left has never liked him and "far right ghouls" have always attested trump-derangement-syndrome.
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