(originally published on 1/7/15, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France)
The murder of cartoonists for mocking Islam and the prophet Mohammed is a seeming tipping point in the Ummah, here from my own non-Islamic mountain top. It could just be the view through the filters of the media, of course, but either way...
The murder of cartoonists for mocking Islam and the prophet Mohammed is a seeming tipping point in the Ummah, here from my own non-Islamic mountain top. It could just be the view through the filters of the media, of course, but either way...
The conversation stirred within the Muslim community by this act is one of the strongest signs of the Islamic evolution now underway that I have seen cross my desk so far.
Make no doubt about it, Islam is on the edge of the fastest macro-evolution in recorded religious history. Within 100 years, the Official World Ummah will be recognizing gay married Imams and campaigning for the protection of all non-Muslims worldwide.
What??
Maybe not. But collective Islamic thought might only veer harder with every injustice committed in it's name. And at this point, with the internet in the hands of the oppressed, anything could happen. If we are all truly equally becoming Buddha, then Christ-like behavior could start emanating from Muslims in every nation soon enough, if we're not careful.
And once they turn the other cheek...we're doomed. Our own hypocrisy and failed civility will then be forever carved into the annals of history by none other than the meekest among us.
Change consumes us all.
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