Fri, Dec 05, 2008

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Jewcy Book Club

This week:
My Jesus Year
and
Dumbfounded
My Jesus YearDumbfounded
Welcome Authors
Benyamin Cohen
 &
Matthew Rothschild
who are posting all week.
Coming up:
  • 12/08:
    Seth Greenland

All Comments by Muse

"Hilarious and accurate" on Muslamism May Spell The Death Of The West
03/28/08 5:39 pm
This reminds me of that Dave Chappelle Racial Olympics skit. Clearly Muslims would win any Religious Olympics. Bring it on peeps.
"Thanks" on "Muslim!" Now Available In Insult Form
12/11/07 12:13 pm
I'm glad you're out there saying these things, because the latent hostility in the US to "Mozlems" has already defeated me. It took 4 months of living in Egypt to make me realize the effect it had on me. I no longer have the energy to do anything to defend or explain my existence and beliefs. All I can do is nod along to everything you wrote here.
"props" on How to Understand Pakistan's Politics: Political Darwinism
11/15/07 4:52 am
for closing with Faiz.
"one more thing" on Experiments with an Islamic Netroots
09/13/07 8:40 am

i was down with understanding the other problems, but the last one i dont get.

"In other words, if Islam taught us to love humanity – instead of just Muslims – then why was our focus just on Muslims?"

because we are Muslims, and bad things are being done in our name. does defining ourselves automatically necessitate creating an "other" whom we cant relate to or empathize with? the fact that you are posting this on a blog called "jewcy.com" is proof enough that this is not the case (props to them for recognizing this). who were we (you) demonizing simply by calling yourselves "states of islam"? to my recollection, all were welcome, and we had a diverse bunch working towards the same goal.

"DK's comment" on Muslim Philosopher, Reconstructionist Rabbi and Violence
09/11/07 1:06 pm

"Fundamentalists are then able to frame traditional adherents as illegitimate compromisers, even though the traditionalists are the ones often coming from an ancient paradigm of allowing for various viewpoints and expressions..."

I just wanted to say that I think this point really captures a large part of the problem - its interesting for me to learn that the same issue exists within Jewish communities  as in Muslim ones. My question is why is it much harder today to reconcile science and faith than it was previously, such that tradionalists are pressured to radicalize?