@rezaaslan my Islam is one that celebrates happiness, gentility, brotherhood and rejects as far as possible causing harm to others
The individual without need of mediation is the only qualified interpreter of the Quran in my opinion. https://twitter.com/ckdagli/status/632396271773466624 …
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@hamid@rezaaslan "A rapist is drawn closer to God when he rapes a minor non-muslim girl." Is this also a kind of Islamic way of living? -
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@rezaaslan For those w/ rudimentary spiritual technologies, maybe. Else, any book + disturbed personality = sPamGeller, Terry Jones et al.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan@CKDagli beautiful. Couldn't agree with that statement moreThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan it's one that looks to improve life for all rather than burden people with thinking how many strands their miswaak should have.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan@CKDagli What does that mean, practically? How do we determine extent to which one needs no mediation, & is there such a thing?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan there's more to this. When I was back at university decided that many Hadeeth, even sahih were problematic and contradictoryThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan decided as a result, the best way to treat hadith were to use those that best interpreted the Quran in the most gentle, humane -
@hamid@rezaaslan Hadithers are Kaafirs>Quran 5:44. Tell us, how this hadith-crap interprets Quran?pic.twitter.com/XEk9OKiUGn
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@rezaaslan way, because to me the Prophet Muhammed is meant to be the kindest of us all. I remember debating with some fellow Muslims -
@hamid@rezaaslan He had to be kind....Maybe his personality but also because no one would have listened to him if he was not kind..
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@rezaaslan and one said to me 'that actually sounds a lot like Salafism' and I suppose he's right. It's kind of like the mirror of SalafismThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan 1. I am somewhat surprised, after all your years of scholarship, that this would be the conclusion you should reachThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan 2. How you can't see that it is precisely an unmediated reading of the texts by individuals that has led to such horrorsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan 3. Horrors in most religions, not just Islam...not to mention that loss of the concept of objective truth. All I know is, should -
@purplepadre Maybe most in Catholicism?@rezaaslan -
@booksread@rezaaslan Perhaps. Who knows. Not really the issue
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