Reza Aslan was wrong on many fronts as well....interesting read

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Re: Reza Aslan was wrong on many fronts as well…interesting read

@kakaballi

Reza’s point was this: Yes, there are several social problems in almost all Muslim countries but they are not ‘same’ problems across all Muslim countries. If such problems are religious, then FGM, for example should exist in most, if not all, Muslim countries.

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Agreed. Author of the article thought Reza was issuing apologia when in fact he was imploring the CNN morons to stop making sweeping and uneducated generalizations. He may have been wrong about FGM being an African problem (it’s present throughout Asia and Africa, but widespread in Africa). But that’s a bit pedantic.

What the author does a poor job at communicating is that Muslims do not espouse liberal values for the most part. The surveys that imply a preference for Sharia simply underscore that. The trend, now, is to treat anything conservative as problematic and something to “deal with”, though the Author, Sam Harris, Bill Mahar, or whomever have a hard time articulating exactly what to do with this “problem”.