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IDEA * EVALUATION * CONCLUSION * INSIGHT * COMMENTARY * CONTROVERSY * INTELLECTUAL CONFLICTS *
ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS * MIDDLE EAST RELIGION * MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS * ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS *
WHAT IS TOLERANCE * DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE * ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS * MUSLIMS FOR PEACE *
ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS * MIDDLE EAST RELIGION * ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS *

Islam Basic Beliefs raise the question: What Is Tolerance?
What Supports Rage Disorder? Middle East Religion, Islam Beliefs encourage
Rage Anger. Middle East Religions vs Definition of Tolerance.

Click here to go from this exploration of Islam basic beliefs,
to my journey in writing the piece -
a journey through fear, censorship, self-censorship,
and on into the unexpected.

Click here to go from this exploration of Islam basic beliefs to
Mirror Mirror in the Hall, Who Is That Horror in the Hall?
on the rage of the righteous on coming across mirrors.

Click here for all the pieces on
Western tolerance and Islam,
seen through my curious eyes.

Articles on Terrorism. Core Question: How to Stop Terrorism.
The Path: see Middle East Religions, Islam Basic Beliefs,
Middle East Facts THROUGH ACTIONS - like with the Danish Cartoon.

Islam Basic Beliefs ...?

Questions. Why so much Muslim rage at a Danish cartoon?
Why so much rage in people in general? Narcissism. Hate. Illusions.
The Idea Emporium - facts, ideas, conclusions. Plus stupid opinions exposed.

Islam Basic Beliefs ...?

More questions. Why so much Muslim silence
about Muslim violence against other Muslims?
Where are all the imams? Some moderates speak out.
But why are moderate Muslim clerics not more visible?
Is it the fault of the media?
Are the Middle Eastern media and the Western media
not adequately reporting the voices of Muslim moderates?
Why are Muslim moderates not protesting en masse
against Muslim violence and terrorism,
including against other Muslims?
Is it related to Islam basic beliefs?

Islam Basic Beliefs ...? And What is Healthy Tolerance?

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The Idea Emporium - why and what

One of my lifelong concerns has been trying to make sense of reality. What is happening? Why is this happening?
And with that I come to ideas - ideas about reality, ideas that need to be checked against reality, not just believed in
like the tooth fairy is accepted by a child. But how does one check them? What qualifies as proof, as evidence?

And why, so often, is evidence of no interest to people? Somehow they had a wall against the evidence.

The ideas I want to explore are those that go with the evidence, that try to make sense of evidence.

How to Stop Terrorism? And How to Stop Bad Thinking?

I am brimming with ideas, questions, thoughts.

And around me, most often I have come up against walls. One must be tolerant. One must not question religion. One must be accepting. I have slowly dragged myself out of the swamp of unthinking tolerance. It never felt right to be there. But it has taken a long time to put my ideas together.

I identified with Al Gore, in his journey in An Inconvenient Truth. He was trying to convey his truth for twenty years - his growing truth, his ever more inconvenient truth with the evidence mounting ever higher. What I admired most: he didn't give up. He kept working at saying his truth in an ever better, clearer way. No one would have faulted him for giving up, faced with the dragon of a presidential campaign scuttled by someone from the left as well as a stupid crook on the right - stupid but very powerful and with powerful friends and family. But he did not give up. And now there it is, An Inconvenient Truth, for all to see.

Of course he hasn't been alone in what he's been seeing - and likewise I'm not alone.

So what have I seen, and what am I trying to convey?

I'm trying to convey what seems to be a good route in the quest to figure out how to stop terrorism. Here's some of what I look at:

DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE. WHAT IS TOLERANCE.

The West's insistence, these days, on tolerance is just an dangerous as its previously generally closed mind to the equality of women and men, of people of all races and sexual orientations. It has just taken its generally closed mind and, having let in a few truths, kept parts of its mind as closed as ever. Rigidly closed. That's not just stupid but dangerous.

HISTORY OF MUSLIM RELIGION. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.

I'm not great at going out and getting facts. I am good at mulling over the facts that do come my way. So one fact that hit me in the face was that there was huge Muslim outrage over a small Danish cartoon but no huge Muslim outrage over Muslim murder of others (mainly Muslims, at that), over massive amounts of genital mutilation, etc. Instead of outrage at millions of mutilations, over and over I heard that Westerners had no right to pass judgment over other cultures. Strangely, that argument was not used to say we had no right to judge Communist repression, Nazi horrors. Once again, that made no sense. I was not given any grounds, by the way, as to why I should be selectively blind, selectively able to evaluate information (Communism - good to judge; Islam - bad to judge).

Though the disproportionate outrage over one cartoon was enough of a fact for me to see that something very wrong was going on, it makes sense to do much more exploring of facts - such as on the history of the Muslim religion.

MORE TO GET INFO ON:
ISLAM BACIS BELIEFS. MIDDLE EAST RELIGION. MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS.
TERRORIST IDEOLOGY. MIDDLE EAST FACTS. ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS.
WHAT IS TOLERANCE? DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE.
CURRENT EVENTS MIDDLE EAST. MIDDLE EAST SOLUTION. TYPES OF RELIGION.
ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS. ISLAM BELIEFS. ISLAM PEOPLE. ISLAM CULTURE.
ARTICLES ON TERRORISM. DEFINITION TERRORISM. TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
MUSLIM CARTOON. MUSLIM CARTOONS. RADICAL MUSLIM. MUSLIM VIOLENCE.
ARAB ANGER. SLOW DANGER. ISLAM FAITH. ANTI ISLAM. TERRORIST TACTICS.
SUICIDE TERRORISTS. SELF RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE. RELIGIOUS TERRORISM.

THERE ARE STILL OTHER AREAS:
RAGE IDSORDER. WAKE UP RAGE. RAGE ANGER.
NARCISSTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. ACQUIRED SITUATIONAL NARCISSISM.

AND FINALLY, OVER AND OVER, AND THROUGHOUT;
THE BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING,
OF RECOGNIZING WHAT IS A LOGICAL FALLACY,
WHAT ARE LOGICAL FALLACIES
(such as, we have hurt others with past judging, so all judging is bad).

I do pay attention to facts. My bigger pleasure, though, is thinking about them, puzzling things out.

So a tiny fact - the unwarranted tempest about a cartoon - was enough to set me off on an exploration of a religion, of ways of thinking, manipulations of reality, a slow danger.

I have explored most fully my home culture - the West - because it is much of that culture which has stayed silent, as if paralyzed by its rhetoric of tolerance and acceptance, as if trapped in a poisonous web - so that the ideology of tolerance and acceptance, instead of freeing and opening minds, has been used - not only to not think - but to attempt to shut up people, like myself, ready and eager to explore - rather like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, managing to get out of even a pit of writhing snakes. Here the snakes hiss, you must not be judgmental, you have not right to judge another religion, who are you to know, all opinions are equal, every religion is equal.

Not easy, when one does not want to intone accepted doctrines.

Elsa,
brain trainer
always looking with ideas cooking
March 24, 2008

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