tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972659.post7122008498883538847..comments2024-02-06T12:47:40.114-08:00Comments on jim hancock: read it yourself | on countering violent extremismJim Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459723439431806283noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972659.post-25134344132952140072015-02-23T11:15:12.169-08:002015-02-23T11:15:12.169-08:00Hmm.... The link to the sampling of condemnations ...Hmm.... The link to the sampling of condemnations of violence in the name of Islam got scraped off. Let me try again: http://bit.ly/1GlUuvx<br /><br />Jim Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15459723439431806283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972659.post-87745057819735102192015-02-23T10:50:23.612-08:002015-02-23T10:50:23.612-08:00Dear Anonymous,
Thanks for the measured tone in y...Dear Anonymous,<br /><br />Thanks for the measured tone in your response. A couple of thoughts for what they're worth. <br /><br />- If you're suggesting the President of the United States should be silent regarding the nature of the threat of violent extremism, I disagree. But I doubt that's what you're saying.<br /><br />- Your reading of the Koran may be different than mine, and I'm open to being schooled on this. I read there a framework in which proportional retaliation against those who attack Muslims - especially those who attack Muslims for being Muslims - is permitted and perhaps encouraged. Aggression is prohibited. Murder is prohibited. Restraint is praised. Retaliation without mercy is condemned. <br /><br />As a narrative - given that the Koran purports to include and explain ancient Jewish religious history, and localize that history into its own place and time - the Koran strikes me as less bloodthirsty than what you or I might consider the worst episodes in the Jewish historical texts, while falling short of what I regard as the brightest of the Jewish prophetic writings. <br /><br />- Public condemnations of recent and current violence from "peaceful Muslims and clerics" abound. Here's a sampling: <br /><br />- I would argue that the uniquely "Christian" canon of writings - what I believe you mean when you use the abbreviation, 'NT' - inhabits quite a different space than the Jewish 'OT' and the Koran, regarding violence. There are self-identified Christians who disagree with me on this, but if I am a Christian at all, I'm the sort who is convinced that violence in the name of Jesus, including violence meant to somehow protect, preserve or promote the name of Jesus, demonstrates a profound and fundamental misunderstanding of the way of Jesus.<br /><br />- Setting "Marxist pie in the sky naivety" against "Nazism Muslim Jihad" is lost on me as a serious critique.<br /><br />- I don't know of any thoughtful construction that regards economic oppression as grounds for enduring peace and social cohesion. If "jobs" stands as a proxy for economic, social and political opportunity, I would maintain that they are part of a larger answer. Which is, I think, what the President argues consistently.<br /><br />Thanks again for responding.Jim Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15459723439431806283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6972659.post-15865889435892123062015-02-21T06:13:45.984-08:002015-02-21T06:13:45.984-08:00a lot of words. he always has a lot of words. the ...a lot of words. he always has a lot of words. the fact is that the koran does speak of infidels and apostates. and how does this "faith of peace" say to deal with them? where is the public outrage from "peaceful muslims and clerics?" he speaks of reformation? can an islamic reformation change the Koran? did the protestant reformation change the OT/NT? did Jewish Reformation change the OT? Marxist pie in the sky naivety is no answer to a Nazism Muslim Jihad. and jobs are certainly no answer!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com