Who Is Rashad Hussain?

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross at the Long War Journal offers a first hand account of the Rashad Hussain of his acquaintance.

See: A defense of Rashad Hussain

It is worth reading.

Personally, I do not think that Islam is redeemable. That does not mean that it is necessary or even in our interests to treat all Muslims as terrorist. Most if not nearly all of them are just people like you and me. Their religion may separate us but we do not have to be bound by the doctrines of their religion.

Many Muslims believe that it is possible to have a "peaceful" Islam. They may be right. It is up these believers in a peaceful Islam to demonstrate to us how it could be.

If Rashad can show us an Islam that can be unlike the Islam that we have come to know, I am willing to give him that opertunity.

I fear that the Qur'an and the Hadith make such hopes impossible, but we can give him the bennifit of the doubt and accept for the moment that he really believes it to be possible.

Vectrasauris is back.

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I have been busy. (Distracted really.)

Now I am back.

The Lizard King at that other site has proven himself to be more of an ass than I could stomach.

Fie upon him.

May he go deaf in that horrible echo chamber of sophomoric and sycophantic blatherings of his own creation.