{"id":254,"date":"2002-02-28T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T03:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/defective-islam\/"},"modified":"2002-02-28T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2002-03-01T03:07:15","slug":"defective-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/28\/defective-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Defective Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; Robert Locke, writing for <a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/columnists\/locke\/2002\/locke02-28-02.htm\">FrontPage Magazine,<\/a> makes a strong case for Islam as a defective religion that gives rise to a defective civilization. The main points appear to have been cribbed off this blog, which makes them credible, of course. Here&#8217;s a sample of Locke&#8217;s argument:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere are also disturbing aspects about Islam purely as a religion, independent of any social consequences.  For example, its conception of paradise with the 70 virgins, et cetera, is, to be quite blunt, repulsively crude and I do not think this is just a Western bias.  Everything I have gathered in conversation with representatives of other traditions suggests to me that a serious Buddhist, Hindu or Chinaman finds this equally unattractive.  The ultimate end of man should not be a teenage fantasy.  It is, of course, a wonderful myth for motivating young men to become killers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Sharia problem, the non-separation of church and state problem, and the crude nature of the Islamic religious imagination all weigh heavily against Islamic progress. Certainly, there is a serious force pushing Muslims in the direction of madness for them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/attack\/2002\/02\/27\/usat-poll.htm\">to believe that Arabs<\/a> were not involved in 9\/11.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Robert Locke, writing for FrontPage Magazine, makes a strong case for Islam as a defective religion that gives rise to a defective civilization. The main points appear to have been cribbed off this blog, which makes them credible, of course. Here&#8217;s a sample of Locke&#8217;s argument: There are also disturbing aspects about Islam purely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/28\/defective-islam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Defective Islam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-46","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}