Umm not sure what the point here is, other than you saying you agree it's equally as retarded as your dragon example, ergo, it is retarded. Which it is.
Point is I have the feeling most people here wouldn't care one bit what the dragon's color in the book is and how it differs from the person who read the book and thinks dragons are real look like, only be flabbergasted they actually believe dragons are real from reading a fantasy book. Excepting perhaps present company since you think dragons are so cool.
I don't think it will. As to why I care? I care because I believe it misleads people into Islam, they step in at the soft and progressive end, and slowly find themselves drawn into the reality of Islam. It makes them believe that they can immigrate to a muslim country and find the same values, only to become trapped in dangerous marriages or dangerous situations.
Do you really think this risk outweighs the potential benefits if this does take off and become a larger movement within Islam? And should the hippy-dippy Muslims really have the responsibility of someone making bad, uninformed/misinformed choices?
It provides a continuation of damage to children, who find themselves caught up in the 'to be progressive or not be' dilemma rather than providing them with that tabula rasa from which to face the future.
Again, the majority of liberally-inclined Muslims are NOT going to become atheist I don't think, nor will they raise their kids without any religious presupposition. Those who will become atheists will do so whether or not liberal alternatives exist, but for those who are desperately clinging to their faith despite liberal beliefs, it provides an alternative. So, yeah, I don't see this as being a good objection.
It also bolsters false figures conflated with actual belief in Islam, rather than the reality, which is it is NOT a belief in Islam, it is the worship of one's own brand of Islam.
This is assuming that because Islam has remained static or regressive for a century or so that it will remain so. The core texts of Christianity and Judaism have not changed since antiquity and yet Christianity and Judaism themselves have quite a bit. To define someone's religion solely by their adherence to the original religious texts would require writing off the majority of people who identify as Christian or Jewish, at least those in Europe and, to a lesser extent, America. Hell if that's the definition you could make a good argument for writing off the entire Catholic Church as not really Christian (which plenty of fundamentalist Protestants do).
Religions have ways of reinterpreting ancient scripture to meet the demands of modern society. To assume otherwise for Islam would assume it is not just unique, but so unique that it's not subject to the same rules of history as not only any other religion but any other ideology period-- secular ideologies can be just as fluid or rigid (core, foundational texts of secular ideologies are constantly being reinterpreted to suit modern demands and just like religions, ideologies often split over these interpretations into different sects-- Marxism is an excellent example though by no means the only one).
Other than to call it for what it is, retarded, which to be fair is no less than you call vegetarians, or hippies, or men with socks and sandals.
1. The socks and sandals thing is your own spin, I don't know why you keep saying that. It's open-toed footwear on men period, and I've never called them retarded just merely said the practice should be banned and maybe men who do it should have their feet cut off or something.
2. I poke fun at veggies but I don't think they're stupid. Now animal liberationists, yes, but far from every veggie is an animal liberationist.
3. Okay you got me, hippies are idiots.
Do you care? no.
Ah, but here you're wrong. I do care actually. I hate seein men's nasty ass feet; if animal liberationists had their way life saving research on animals would be halted and all of us forced to be vegans; and hippies are annoying and unfortunately I'm surrounded by these morons right now.
EDIT: Also, what deusvult said, particularly the bit at the end about orthodoxy
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