Egyptian Islamic Leader: The World is Less Religious Because Atheists Are Too Damn Reasonable

[FLPanhandle]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/06/23/egyptian-islamic-leader-the-world-is-less-religious-because-atheists-are-too-damn-reasonable/



Sheik Ahmad Al-Tayyeb who heads up Egypt’s Sunni-affiliated Al-Azhar University, said on a TV show recently that atheists are undermining the Islamic world and doing it by making logical, sensible arguments that are too hard for many Muslims to refute:

He added that one of the major causes of the spread of irreligiosity and atheism in the Islamic world is that some Muslim youth do not have the support for firm thinking and belief and cannot assess what they hear, especially since those who spread atheism spread their ideas with simple and comprehensible explanations for the youth.

Al-Tayyeb also pointed out that human rights groups didn’t treat people who left Islam like monsters. As if apostates deserve respect and dignity…

“We think this phenomenon is an abuse of religious freedom and at the same time, those who have not declared their apostasy from Islam are not considered threats to the Islamic community,” he said.

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It’s almost like we make too much sense…

[Laf.La.Dem.]

1. Hope for the future?

[lapfog_1]

2. 12th century Islam runs into the world of science and reason

[whatthehey]

6. I wish we actually had 12th Century Islam

While it was a bit after the golden age of the Abbasids, and the moribund Buyyids and burgeoning Seljuks were exerting less cosmopolitan influence then, by and large Islam in the 1100s was relatively pluralist, enlightened and invested in scientific progress, certainly more so than Christianity in the same period. If the Abbasids were still running the show, monstrosities like jihad against civilians and tribal brutalities straight from the dark ages would be far less common than they are now.

[truebluegreen]

11. Now, don't go confusing the issue

with facts and historical perspective and stuff. It's not fair.

[AntiBank]

3. insert Christianity or any other "god system" and the same thing is true

When any person starts off beliveving in imaginary, magical sky beings as a foundational base to order their life around it's usually going to end badly. Logic is not the order of the day with them.

[FLPanhandle]

4. +1

Is it any wonder their "god" banished Adam & Eve for eating from the tree of knowledge. No religion can survive that.

[Orrex]

5. Well thank God.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

7. Wait...This isn't satire?

[rurallib]

14. No kidding - kept looking for the onion or borowitz someplace in the story

[smirkymonkey]

15. Yeah, so did I.

The real world is just becoming too absurd. It's making the job of satirists much too easy.

[leeroysphitz]

8. God DAMN those comprehensible explanations and sensible arguments. n/t

[ZombieHorde]

9. Step one: atheism.

Step two: nihilism.

Step three: fun.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Atheists, legal weed, full frontal nudity on cable tv...

It's important we focus on the REAL problems facing our beseiged world!

[romanic]

12. The Islamic world would benefit

with more atheists.

[Android3.14]

13. Oh thank you. I needed that.