Short answer; no.<\/p>\n
The standard rebuttal that all faiths have at one time or another shown themselves prone to violence and repression misses the essential point. All the major religions have reformed themselves, reducing or eliminating the all-too-human tendency to sanctimonious oppression\u2014and none of these faiths, let us remember, endorsed oppression as a universal<\/em> creedal or Divine imperative. Such is not the case with Islam, a communion that since its inception in the 7th<\/sup> century has seldom strayed from its sanguinary path of carnage and subdual.\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2026 The Founders, Bynum asserts, \u201cclearly meant to define religion in a Judeo-Christian context.\u201d Islam, however, \u201cis self-segregating, fosters ideas of Muslim supremacy and thereby sows seeds of social discord.\u201d What kind of religion, we might ask, degrades women as second-class citizens, approves anti-Semitism, preaches hatred against \u201cinfidels,\u201d sponsors terrorist attacks on an almost daily basis with Koranic warrant, and wishes to impose Sharia, \u201ca parallel legal system based on inequality,\u201d on its Western host countries?<\/p>\n
Furthermore, as we have seen, Islam insists on territorial sovereignty and does not distinguish between theology and politics, which is why its definitional status as a \u201creligion\u201d is or should be moot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Source: Is Islam a Religion?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Short answer; no. The standard rebuttal that all faiths have at one time or another shown themselves prone to violence and repression misses the essential point. All the major religions have reformed themselves, reducing or eliminating the all-too-human tendency to sanctimonious oppression\u2014and none of these faiths, let us remember, endorsed oppression as a universal creedal … Continue reading Is Islam a Religion?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,72,59,61,67,71,85,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-evil","category-islam","category-hostile-invaders","category-hostile-invaders-moslems","category-idiots-islam-deniers","category-intolerance","category-politics","category-war-on-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}