Matthew Syed asks - Who are the true Muslims – all or none? secularism.org.uk/blog/2014/11/who-are-the-true-muslims--all-or-none Instead of pontificating on who are the real Muslims, isnt it time to acknowledge that the entire debate is senseless? Moderate Muslims would not like such a stance, of course. They would hate to be told that their interpretation of Islam is no more legitimate than that of Isis. But the alternative is far worse because it perpetuates the idea that there is a rational means of figuring out which of the subgroups has a hotline to God. This takes us to the elephant in the room. The fundamental problem in the Middle East today is not with the Sunni or the Shia or even with Isis. The problem is with religion itself. It is the idea of received wisdom, divine revelation, the notion that I have heard the Truth and that everyone else is deluded. This is the corrupting, anti-rational, distorting engine of religious violence in the Middle East, just as it once triggered Christianity into a bloody civil war. Truth divorced from evidence (or anything that counts as evidence) is perilous.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:56:49 +0000
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