Friday, May 10, 2002

Saw this last evening. I found it fascinating, but not very encouraging. I have referred to groups like al Qaeda, the Palestinian terrorists and the Iranian Ayatollahs as "Apostate" Islam. This program convinced me even more.

One segment of the program focused on a woman in Malaysia who was trying to obtain a divorce under the Sharia law there and was continually blocked because her husband would not consent, even though he had married another woman without telling her and became abusive when she found out and complained. She started reading the Quran for herself and found that it didn't uphold the decision of the Sharia court, but it didn't really matter.

The inferior status of women has been referred to again and again in answering the question of what went wrong with Islam. This program shows it clearly.

It seems to me that a lot of what is wrong with all religions is that nearly all of them claim that divine revelation ceased 1500 or more years ago and that scholars and intellectuals who came later were somehow entitled to guide the religion instead of God.

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