Letters to the Editor
Flinkywood
Published Letters: 2 Editor's Choice: 1
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Priest Mass'ing for Nazrullah?
[Read the article: "Nasrallah has come"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can the writer document when and where any Catholic Priest says Mass for Nazrullah?
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What is Truth?
[Read the article: American goodwill, in shackles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't foresee Islam melting into the American pot so long as internal debates over whether the Koran mandates killing its opponents are on the increase. I'm happy that some brave scholars advocate a pacific interpretation of Koran, but for every one of them 10 others are going from regular guy to holy warrior seemingly overnight. Isn't something terribly wrong with a religion that can do that to people?
I also wonder what about American culture could possibly beguile a young Muslim rooted in the moral certainties and structure of his faith. How could America possibly temper Islam as it circles its wagons against her savage immorality? And how could America possibly answer a young Muslim's question, "Here's my faith, where's yours?"
To assimilate, Islam must change. For good or ill, this has been the American way. But so long as modern, secular America and the West offer few reasons for a Muslim to change his religious convictions, we will see, as we see in France, increasing Muslim entrenchment and radicalization.