“For one so well versed in Islamic Laws it is strange to be ignorant of their values which are the backbone of any laws including islamic (though I don't understand how you can speak of religious laws - law belongs to the state not faith; in religion they have commandments, rites, perhaps rules, but not laws).” A lot of words to hind the fact you don’t answer the question, once again.
I know some values of the Koran: Basic inequalities between religions, basic inequalities between gender, expansionism, killings pagans, homosexuals and apostates.
Note that most religions have the same “values”
If these are the values you want us to respect, these values being against my values, they can carry-on to have tantrum and feelings hurts.
As my knowledge of the “Islamic” Laws, I never claim to have an extensive one but nice try of a Stalinist type of smear campaign. Or perhaps was it a new vain attempt of irony? I can't tell.
The ones I see in action talk by themselves, don’t they? Between Isis, Boka Haram, Al-Quaida, whipping an blogger in Saudi Arabia, cutting limbs, stoning to death a woman in the street and others obscurantists killers, I have plenty food for though. Carry-on to defend them, carry-on to pretend they have right to do what they want to do, carry-on to do that, and you just kill any possibility for Islam to reform
Because, but perhaps you don’t know, the Koran was not given by God, but written by men. As for the Christian and the Council of Nicaea, the early Muslim Clergy made some choices (Uthman copy).
Apparently, you can change the Koran as well (abrogations), even if it is still a little bit obscure to me as I just learnt it yesterday in following a debate between a Muslim Scholar, an atheist (leftist), 3 philosophes and a specialist in international relationships.
I will have to research on this bit.
And no, laws of physic do not belong to States, so you are just trying semantic in order to keep face. No problem with me.
“Has anyone started shooting others because of bikinis and pork? No? So definitely these are peripheral values, or rather rules of behavior. Evidently Muslims are tolerant enough to this. What CH did (and keeps doing) some of them thought to be endangering their core values.” Absolute :daisy:. Image of the Prophets were published during Middle-Ages, Renaissance and Modern Area. What you are describing is a choice by obscurantist religious Muslim fanatics and their mobsters to be offended. They decided to be offended by the publication by someone else not belonging to their Faith and to go for a kill as a message: “Fear us”. It is a political attack, a terror attack to gain political grounds, not a religious one. No religious debate, no controversy, the use of mob rules.
The relatively small number of “Muslims” demonstrating de facto proves your theory wrong.
“Try not to insult the feelings of others as much as you can help.” The day they will stop to pretend there is a god, as it hurts my core values.
Or the day they stop to pretend that their God is the only God, as it hurts the feeling of my Christian Friends.
The day they stop to pretend there is only one God as it hurts the core values of my Hindu friends. Well, I can carry-on, as each opinions can hurts the core values of someone else.
:sweatdrop:, I forgot: these are not core values as we don’t kill for them. Well, if we exclude the Norwegian Killer Breivik, of course.
You have a very strange system to value values…
