Last week on Public Discourse, Rida Fozi presented an Islamic perspective of marriage:
While Islam opposes same-sex marriage, its opposition to it and to President Obama's stance is not a matter of hate or bigotry but a matter of principle.
God Almighty states in the Quran on the creation of Adam and Eve, "It is He Who created you from a single person, and made his mate of like nature, in order that he might dwell with her in love" (Chapter 7, Al-Araf: Verse 189). He further refers to them in the Quran saying, "We created you from a single pair, male and female" (Chapter 49, Al-Hujurat: Verse 13).From the beginning of time marriage has been established as a bond between a man and a woman. Islam views this bond as a sacred institution, one that allows for procreation and ensures that communities will flourish and the next generation will be full of God-fearing men and women.
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Islam also supports homosexuals being put to death and women being controlled in every aspect of their lives. You sure you want to side with them?
I wish I could like katie's comment.
Well, we kill unborn children here and I still believe marriage is between one man and one woman, so, yeah, I'm siding with them on the issue.
Katie's is typical Liberal faulty reasoning. Yet another straw man argument.
Katie and Joel, we can agree with Muslims about pro-gender marriage and pro-life issues. That doesn't mean we agree with them about everything--including violence toward women or people with same-sex attraction, or Jews.
Do you understand the difference?
Just like we can treat homosexuals with respect and still oppose gender-segregated marriage.
I think that ending same-sex marriage and preserving natural reproduction and marriage as a man and a woman in our country and to stop promoting gay marriage and transhumanism and postgenderism in our foreign policy should be part of our negotiations with the Taliban.
I am sure it would end the war and we could bring our troops home immediately.
Islamic fundamentalism doesn't simply oppose same-sex marriage, it opposes the existence of gay and lesbian people. NOM is foolishly trying to separate one from the other. They are inexplicably tied and are absolutely rooted in hatred of LGBT people. The fact that NOM is trying to isolate the marriage issue while remaining silent on the brutal treatment of gays - which includes execution by horrific methods - tells us much about the nature of NOM and the people who run it.
When NOM sides with the Islamic, you know just how desparate they've become.
Interesting how the opposition condemns all Muslims, including those who don't adhere to Islamic fundamentalism. The list of people the opposition hates grows longer and longer. Another example of their "tolerance."
@14
And yet it is conservatives who are islamaphobic.
You're right, fundamentalism is the worst of Islam. But we're not talking about fundamentalists are we? We're talking about the more moderate wing of Islam that still adheres to it's principles while not living it word for word.
NOM condemns the brutal treatment of homosexuals. It's organizations like GLAAD, GLAD, PFLAG and HRC that don't denounce the mistreatment of homosexuals in muslim countries.
I don't understand this with you liberals. Why is it that if one person defends one part of a belief then they're suddenly endorsing the entire belief system? For instance, I believe that welfare should be safetynet not a lifestyle but somehow according to the left that translates into me wanting poor people to starve and wanting to throw grandma over a cliff.
Barb is now supporting tolerance for others. Glad to see that position.
LOL @ Barb and Zack. Sure Barb, the anti-Muslim sentiment comes from the left: http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/08/30/observing-911-without-god/
So which is it, are progressives and pro-LGBT Muslim apologists or Islamaphobes? Zack seems to be simultaneously (and ignorantly) claiming both in the same comment. Why don't you guys have a side bar and come back when you get your story straight.
@ Rick - Folks like Barb are only tolerant of Muslims when it comes to their anti-gay views. The tolerance quickly disappears when they want to build a mosque or run for office.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
14th...I couldn't agree with you more. NOM will use anyone to futher their agenda. I believe they put that into a memo.
@14
1) Yet you neither refute my claims nor claim that I am wrong.
2) I'm not ignorantly claiming anything. Has the left denounced the sensless stoning of women in Saudi Arabia or Afgahnistan? Has GLAAD come out against the hanging and imprisonment of homosexuals in muslim countries?
About the only thing the radical left has ever spoken out against was the use of goats as living bombs and that was from PETA.
@14
Although they are subtle and discreat about it, the left is very islamaphobic. Not bigoted towards muslims, but islamaphobic.
Let's make this simple.
If I support one thing, that does not mean I support the whole. ERxample. Let's say I support same sex marriage. That does not mean I support the death threats, the bullying, the constant insults, the vilification of people that disagree when they have rational reasons to, the assaults to old ladies who hold up Christian signs, and things like that. Some may, but that does not mean I do. It simply means I support gay marriage. Likewise, if I beleive as Muslims do that ssm is wrong, that does not mean I believe in blowing up buildings, killing "infidels", and treating women like property. When you understand that simple concept, you will better be able to engage in conversaton.
Pete
On a truthful day, you would have to say, kind of like the loony left sides with Muslim activists like CAIR. Anything to destroy the Judeo-Christian foundation on which this great country was built, because morality makes the left uncomfortable.
Not realizing that the left is siding with a more repressive culture than the one it's trying to do away with. Politics makes strange bedfellows.
John Howard
I had to laugh at your last sentence. I think you just hit upon the perfect US policy towards the Middle East going forward.
Cheers.