Critical Thoughts

This is an interesting news article that I came across:

From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week.

A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as “pretty childish” and scoffed at the notion that the Jews could be a “chosen people,” sold for $404,000 at an auction in London. That was 25 times the presale estimate.

No, I am not interested in the letter. I am more interested in what this brilliant man has to say about God. Unfortunately he never knew about Islam, had he known about it he would have become a Muslim I am sure. Because while the Bible may be viewed as a fictional historical piece of writing with little or no spiritual value, the Qur’an is in toto God’s Revelation verbatim. No one has thus far made any real challenge to deny that either.

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Trust me, this is very different from the “Passion” of some half-naked man swinging from a cross (which is of course not Jesus, alaihissallam).

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You would think that this so-called “Islam Hadhari” government, with all their talk about Islamic values and emphasis on Islam [not!] would actually have a tendency to focus more on Eid Adha, the most important festival in Islam which commemorates the sacrifice that our liege-lord Abraham (peace be upon him) made of his beloved son Ishmael (peace be upon him). Of course the corrupted Babble gives a different account of the story of the Sacrifice by giving the right of the first-born son Ishmael to Isaac (peace be upon him), but that is a different issue for another time. Unfortunately, I do not see any television shows touching on Eid Adha or even the Hajj, if at all.

The only show that I saw last night related to this was a documentary on Discovery Channel entitled Revealed: The Hajj. Very educational and rewarding, but that is not the point of this criticism.

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What do you do if you are a bigoted, American radio talk show host and was quoted by an Islamic civil rights group as having referred to the Qur’an as “a throwback document” and a “book of hate”? You sue them in court, of course.

A conservative radio talk show host sued an Islamic civil rights group on Monday for copyright infringement over the organization’s use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a “book of hate.”

Michael Savage said the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American- Islamic Relations, or CAIR, violated his rights by wrongfully using a 4-minute segment of his Oct. 29 “The Savage Nation” show in a letter- writing campaign directed against talk radio advertisers. Audio from the show remained on CAIR’s Web site Monday.

LOL, whatever happened to “free speech”? It seems that the Land of the Free is not so “free” after all when it comes to Islamophobes and their sense of myopic “superiority” (not!) over Islam. So what did Savage really say that made him all hot and bothered over it?

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