It’s just that kind of Facebook morning, the argument at the dinner table resuming at the breakfast table . . . .
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“Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth has been made clear from error. Whoever rejects false worship and believes in God has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that never breaks. And God hears and knows all things.” (Quran 2:256) / “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).
And God (and nature and the universe) did not make others?
The MEMRI clip involves play with symbols with the veiled Dr. Noha expressing the modern ethical-humanist-skeptic-religious perception and the modern news interviewer espousing a terrifying retreat into the medieval atmosphere.
Textual ambiguity in scripture enables the narcissistic and venal to adapt injunction and prophecy from on high to murder and plunder. Much of the world has been victimized by these robed (more often) mafia methods, and one hope it might develop the wherewithal to fight back: however, what it may want to engage (fight) is a kind of personality, and the available text is less important than that.
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The PROBLEM is a mightily complex machine — what more could one want to look at than “conflict, culture, language, and psychology” in the interests of peace? — but a problem in the head may be language-driven, and the invention of that language may fall to mouths that in serving themselves poison the perceptions of others whom they use.
Narcissistic supply.
Self-aggrandizement.
Grandiose ambition and delusion.
When it starts to be seen, it may start to be solved.
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The clip of interest posted on YoutTube by MEMRI:
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