Cut out the middleman

I was browsing through random blogs and I came a across the blog Clean fun, by Mohamed in Egypt. He was inviting readers to ask him question about Islam. I think this is a good idea since living in the West, the followers of Islam is currently the ‘enemy’ and I doubt a balance picture of Islam is being presented. I am sure that the other way around the Western Society is not being portrait well in their countries.

But this is why the internet is so good, it cuts out the middleman and it is up to us to learn more. There will always be differences but it would be so much better if we all could get a long better. I would like to go on the Tube and not wonder when the next bomb will go off.

The backgound of Mohamds and my discussion is on his blog posts "The right Islamic Religion rules" and "a Question" and on my blog post "Ahh :)"

This is my comment:

Mohamed,

I don’t share your belief that a/the God created the universe. I respect the way that you believe the universe was created. I would like to receive the same respect back. I do not think that you are the enemy, a bad guy etc – in fact I like your openness and invitation for a discussion.

I do think you are wrong when you write “You can't condemn a religion through the mistakes of it's followers.”

Firstly, I do not condemn any religion and I wrote you that my opinion is that the world would be a better place with no religions. But do I think that is a likely outcome – no. Too many religious people around for that to happened.

Secondly, it is only way to judge a religion / society / philosophy is by its followers and their actions. We are all representative of something and our actions are being judged.

Communism worked fine on paper but as soon as the plans are executed by people it goes wrong – in my opinion. The judgement is based on the outcome of the plan.

For Islam and its followers, my opinion is that a huge majority of the followers are good and peaceful people. But there is an element of extremism with in your religion (which you probably would say is not true followers of Islam) and it is up to the respectable people within your community to weed out the bad elements. You are closer to the problem and should be able communicate to them so that they understand.

For the “Western Society”, we are also being judge of how we treat people and problems in our society. I think we have some fantastic freedoms that we are taking for granted. But we are not without fault and we do push our why of thinking on other countries and cultures. There is little respect for any other culture. One country is too dominant within the Western Society but we are closer to the problem and have to try to influence it for the better.