![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Religious Minds, Dangerous Ideas
Jul. 17th, 2004 12:26 pm~
If a Muslim were to write an Islamic version of "Glorious Appearing" and publish it in Saudi Arabia, jubilantly describing a massacre of millions of non-Muslims by God, we would have a fit. We have quite properly linked the fundamentalist religious tracts of Islam with the intolerance they nurture, and it's time to remove the motes from our own eyes.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof for The NY Times
Mr. Kristof's chiding dovetails well with that article posted last week on the decline of reading in America. It may be recalled that the one category of books that is doing well are the religious books. Glorious Appearing is one of those religious books, being part of the Left Behind series that has been such an American phenomenon.
Although Kristof concedes that this may not be quite the same as the inundation of fundamentalist Islamic materials in the Islamic world, and that this is not firing Christian terrorism, he makes the point that it probably does foster a more prejudiced mindset that has its own unfortunate consequences...
( Kristof column )
If a Muslim were to write an Islamic version of "Glorious Appearing" and publish it in Saudi Arabia, jubilantly describing a massacre of millions of non-Muslims by God, we would have a fit. We have quite properly linked the fundamentalist religious tracts of Islam with the intolerance they nurture, and it's time to remove the motes from our own eyes.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof for The NY Times
Mr. Kristof's chiding dovetails well with that article posted last week on the decline of reading in America. It may be recalled that the one category of books that is doing well are the religious books. Glorious Appearing is one of those religious books, being part of the Left Behind series that has been such an American phenomenon.
Although Kristof concedes that this may not be quite the same as the inundation of fundamentalist Islamic materials in the Islamic world, and that this is not firing Christian terrorism, he makes the point that it probably does foster a more prejudiced mindset that has its own unfortunate consequences...
( Kristof column )
