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Pro-Freedom · Feb 23, 2018

Islam and the Abortion Debate

Is Islam pro-life, pro-choice, or both, depending on the circumstances? And what implications does the answer to this question have for current political discourse? This essay seeks to offer a comprehensive look at how classical and contemporary Muslim jurists have dealt with the subject in accordance with evolving methods, circumstances, and debates surrounding the topics of contraception and abortion.
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https://yaqeeninstitute.org/en/omar-suleiman/islam-and-the-abortion-debate/

Pro-Freedom · Feb 24, 2018

A must read article

New Atheism's Islam-obsessed rape and rescue fantasy

New Atheists are particularly fixated on Islam. “New Atheists have flirted with and at times vigorously embraced irrational anti-Muslim animus,” writes Glenn Greenwald. Why is Greenwald’s assertion so irrefutably true? New Atheists are entirely wedded to the “clash of civilizations” narrative.

New Atheists are locked in a Western civilisation rape-and-rescue fantasy. New Atheists believe they’re the anointed saviours of the uncivilised East. That they’re the morally righteous Western liberators of the “dark continent.” In other words, they’re on a non-divine mission to save Eastern women from dark men. “The rape-and-rescue fantasy catalyses the narrative role of the Western liberator as integral to the colonial rescue fantasy,” writes Ella Shohat in an essay titled 'Gender in Hollywood’s Orient.'

This rape-and-rescue fantasy has New Atheists and Islamic terrorists locked in a symbiotic relationship. Both al-Qaeda and New Atheism cannot exist without the other. New Atheist propaganda declares, “We are at war with Islam.” Al-Qaeda propaganda says, “See, the West has declared war on Islam.” In turn, they each serve as the other’s best recruitment tool.

Popular New Atheist Ayaan Ali Hirsi, for instance, is the keynote speaker for this year’s American Atheist convention. Her name is guaranteed to drive up ticket sales among enthusiastic New Atheists. Why? She once urged for a military war against Islam - not against Islamic extremism but Islam itself, and expressed sympathy for Islamophobic mass murderer Anders Breivik. The feting of Hirsi as a voice of “reason” among New Atheists underscores the bigoted overtures of the entire New Atheist movement.

Like religious fundamentalists, New Atheists are locked in magical thinking. “If we can just educate and manipulate” enough religious believers to our way of thinking - the “truth” - then the world will be made perfect - our problems will disappear. It’s the psychosis of utopian dreams. It’s the great and dangerous myth of the Enlightenment. A myth that “taught our physical and social environment could be transformed through rational and scientific manipulation,” writes Chris Hedges. “This belief in rational and scientific manipulation of human beings to achieve a perfect world has consigned millions of hapless victims to persecution and death.”

These utopian dreams gave us scientific racism, the pogroms, Nazi and Communist sterilisation programmes, and the anti-religious slaughters of the 20th century.

Exaltation of self is also the underlying reason why New Atheists are blind to state violence. They’re blind to the fact non-state violence is always a response to state violence. They engage in double standards: non-state violence is barbaric and savage, whereas state violence, our violence, is rational, humane and reasonable.

The fixation on religion as the root of the world’s problems is completely at odds with reality. In fact, it’s utterly delusional. What is at fault in the Middle East is not Islam, but despotic, autocratic regimes that rule with the benefit of America’s patronage. What is at fault in the West is not Christianity but free-market fascism: free trade, mass pollution, climate change, income inequality, wealth disparity, racism and immigration overflow from countries that have descended into social chaos – many as a result of Western policies (free trade, climate change, war on terror and the drug war). And what is at fault in Israel is not Judaism - as many of Israel’s founding fathers and current leaders were or are atheists - but apartheid, land theft and humiliation of the Arab populace.

The rape-and-rescue fantasy blinds New Atheists to theses problems at home. It’s the “uncivilised” abroad who require saving by our Western civilisation evangelists, or so they say. The focus on social injustices carried out in Muslim majority countries goes hand-in-hand with the normalisation of the fact that 50 million Americans live in abject poverty, that nearly 20,000 Americans are killed each year by gun violence, and that America has 25 percent of the world’s prison population.

I was a New Atheist. I am no longer. I’m now an old-fashioned, vanilla atheist. I lived in a Muslim majority country for a decade. I now live in the US. Having called both the East and the West home, I can assure you we treat life with no greater sanctity than those we bomb, drone, occupy and belittle. If anyone needs rescuing, it is most likely ourselves.
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http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/new-atheisms-islam-obsessed-rape-and-rescue-fantasy-804596123

Sport Billy · Mar 27, 2018

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Pure nonsense.
Accepting the fact of Evolution has nothing to do with being an Atheist. The vast majority of Christians accept Evolution.
Additionally, Evolution is the study of the change in heritable characteristics over successive generation. Evolution has nothing to do with the origins of life.

Likewise, there is nothing about Evolution that is contrary to the Bible.
In fact, Genesis is very supportive of Evolution.

msilverstein47 · Aug 12, 2022

BREAKING: Author Salman Rushdie was attacked at an event in New York state, according to witness accounts and law enforcement reports.
He suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck and was transported by helicopter to the hospital, police said. His condition is unclear. https://abcn.ws/3doCoV9

msilverstein47 · Aug 12, 2022

The New York Times
50 mins ·
Breaking News: After being stabbed, Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator and cannot speak. His arm and liver are injured, and he may lose an eye. “The news is not good," his agent said.

Sounders78 · Aug 19, 2022

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Yeah except for all the scientists who say otherwise.

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Except the synthetic chemist in that video admits he doesn't understand evolution, which he clearly demonstrates because his entire focus is on how life originated, not how life evolved. How life originated (abiogenesis) is a different theory than how life changed (evolution). This is such basic stuff that it ends conversations because it is clear the other person is clueless.

Furthermore, when you are sick do you go to a plumber instead of a doctor? Because that's what you are doing here - to understand biology why do you go to a synthetic chemist? Pure nonsense.

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I love the quote about "religion-based evidence" . There is no religion-based evidence. What religion do they mean? What actual evidence do they have that the supernatural actually exists? How did they get such evidence? And that's not even addressing the blatant lies in the video about the lack of evidence for human evolution.

Pro-Freedom · Oct 27, 2023