Alea iacta est

Rules for Eating, Rules for Shitting.

Tim Blair links to a Sunday Times column about Western converts to Islam, including this howler:

"People say they want freedom, they want liberty,” he said. “But the bottom line is people want to know what they can and can’t do. They want rules, they want guidelines, something to believe in, something to follow.

Yeah...

So did these guys, these guys and these guys.

Yeah. Freedom and Liberty suck! Give me some Middle-Eastern deity micro-managing my life anyday!

"In Islam, there’s a rule for absolutely everything – how I eat my food, how I go to the toilet, how I get married, how I lend money."

Yes, I'm sure omnipotent, omniscient beings have nothing better to do than to tell you how to void your bowel contents in the proper way.

So...um...good luck with that, mate.

(Mind you, the Bible also contains shitting rules, so why the need for the conversion?)

And then we get the obligitary Godwin's reference for good measure:

He said Muslims should not be lumped with extremists because that was as stupid as saying that because Hitler was a Christian, all Christians were genocidal maniacs.

Newsflash: Hitler and the Nazis weren't Christians - they were into a weird mystical Nordic revival religious thingy.

Here's Hitler on Xtianity:

"Christianity is the prototype of Bolshevism: the mobilisation by the Jew of the masses of slaves with the object of undermining society." —Hitler 1941

"The Führer is deeply religious, though completely anti-Christian; he views Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race."—Joseph Goebbels, in his diary, December 28, 1939.

So...not a lot of Jesus love there.... (Well, he was Jewish, after all)...

They also believed the Bible had been edited so much it was no longer the true word of God, while the Koran had not changed.

BULLSHIT.

The Satanic Verses anyone? You know, Salman Rushdie brought attention to them?

The whole article seems to ooze of stuff bordering on "cultish" behaviour (but some might say the same of Hillsong, I guess.)

So...whatever...I guess if this stuff makes people happy, then go for it. As long as you are only restricting your own freedom. I think it sounds like a load of old codswallop but then....what do I know?

But I find more to admire in this group of freethinkers, myself.

Posted by Quentin George at January 16, 2006 03:49 PM