The headline is poorly considered. These misunderstandings are hardly unique to Trump: Heâs simply exploiting this ignorance.
How about: What far to many people fail to understand about Islam?
Thank you, Mr. Avishai, for this beautifully written piece.
And actually the word order is slightly off. I think it should be;
Donald Trump Fails To Understand Everything About Islam.
Thank you. I will quote this I am sure.
My knowledge, let alone understanding of Islam is woefully inadequate.
Thank you for enlightening me in that regard.
I will be better for your patience and tolerance of us.
I would change it slightly to say:
Donald Trump Fails to Understand Anything About Islam
Iâm afraid you are being overly specific ⌠Tronald fails to understand EVERYTHING. There, thatâs a wrap.
Thank you.
I have few encounters with people of Muslim faith in the USA, but your comments about sweetness were reflected in a Palestinian family that lived across the street from my parents for a short time. My parents welcomed them (and their headscarves) to the neighborhood and received love and kindness from them for years afterwards. Although they moved out of the city, on trips back, they made sure to visit my mother (my father had passed away), and visited with food and flowers at Christmas.
Both girls ended up with Ph.Dâs from prestigious American Universities, shattering preconceptions about the worth of women in Muslim culture.
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. It was easily felt as an influence, and those who went into the desert long enough to forget its open spaces and its emptiness were inevitably thrust upon God as the only refuge and rhythm of being. The Bedawi might be a nominal Sunni, or a nominal Wahabi, or anything else in the Semitic compass, and he would take it very lightly, a little in the manner of the watchmen at Zionâs gate who drank beer and laughed in Zion because they were Zionists. Each individual nomad had his revealed religion, not oral or traditional or expressed, but instinctive in himself; and so we got all the Semitic creeds with (in character and essence) a stress on the emptiness of the world and the fullness of God; and according to the power and opportunity of the believer was the expression of them. ~T.E.Lawrence
Sexual mores mirror what Americans mean by âfamily valuesâ
Americans mean different things by âfamily valuesâ depending on what kind of Americans they are. When conservatives speak of supporting âfamily valuesâ, they mean that they are anti-LGBT, nothing else. When others speak of âfamily valuesâ, they are referring to such things as fidelity, loyalty, and trust. This is an important distinction. Conservatives use âfamily valuesâ as a dog-whistle code word for homophobia.
And no mention of the common practice of clitorectomies, and the fact that in ten muslim nations being gay results in the death penalty? Or of the fact that when polled, westernised Muslims in Europe would implement Sharia law if given the choice? The problem with using the phrase âradical Islamâ is that itâs an oxymoron. Itâs sort of like saying radical Nazism. The radical descriptor is entirely unnecessary. The Koran is so full of vile morality laws, it is exceeded only by the Christianâs bible.
Good morning horrido. Light of understanding is being shaded by hate. I have had 3 Muslim doctors in a row from 1984 to the present. Each one treated me like a son. Each one looked out for me the human being and tried to help me. I was poor then I had my second doctor and when I would leave his office he would stop me an tell me he thought he might have something for me. He had taken all the samples from the pharm reps and would give them to his less well off patients. He saved me thousands of dollars in the 10 years he was my doctor. Thank you Dr. Obaid.
Actually, the headline should have been " . . . About" Muslims, not Islam. As a âmodernâ Muslim, meaning one who is as skeptical or wary of religion as Josh Marshall, for example, I appreciate from the depths of my heart the views expressed by Avishai. He taught me a few things about being Muslim. Yes, a strange and inexplicable kind of generosity is the hallmark of the Muslim ethos, almost everywhere there is a mosque and a few Muslims across the globe.