In Mosul, Radicals Unleash Grim Vision
From the AP story.
"The bombing of shrines ... has nothing to do with Islam," Abu Abaida, 44, a government employee, told the AP by phone from the city. "They are erasing the culture and history of Mosul."
He is completely wrong.
This is pure, unadulterated Islam and a mere repetition of the violent convulsions of the same stripe with the same purposes that have characterized the faith since Mohammed and his first followers started it all with intolerance, persecution, bloodshed, slaughter, and war.
Perhaps the Muslim world will begin to heal from the disease of taking its own religion too seriously, as Bill Maher puts it, when they follow the example of the Christians and the Jews.
Christians all over the West as well as the Jews of Israel have decided that they don't want too much of either the theology or the rules of conduct of their own religion written into law and they don't want government to follow the mandates of clerics.
Devout minorities feel quite otherwise, it is true; but majorities want the freedom to accept and live out their religion cum grano salus, with reservations and contours of their own choosing.
The result falls short of entirely purging religious influence on government but buys believers and unbelievers alike a lot of wiggle-room.
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