Comments on: Ijtihad http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/07/ijtihad/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:27:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Fell http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/07/ijtihad/comment-page-1/#comment-5649 Fell Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:57:01 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/07/ijtihad/#comment-5649 Hmm, sounds like I need to add <i>ijtihad</i> stickers to my to-do list for this autumn. Stickers just proper enough to fit on mosque doors and on Arabic toilets for all to see. Hmm, sounds like I need to add ijtihad stickers to my to-do list for this autumn. Stickers just proper enough to fit on mosque doors and on Arabic toilets for all to see.

]]> By: james http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/07/ijtihad/comment-page-1/#comment-5645 james Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:14:01 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/09/07/ijtihad/#comment-5645 That's the number one maxim for me: "If what one believes is true, then there's no harm in investigating it." Whenever you bring that one out on people, they scurry and scramble because there is that fear that they're going to discover that all of their beliefs up until that point are hogwash. On an unrelated note: the root word for "jihad" and "ijtihad" translates into German as "kampf"... as in "Mein Kampf-- My Struggle". I've been reading in conspiratorial tomes about Hitler's use of anti-Semitic Arab spies during the Third Reich. Weird stuff- you'd think the Nazis wouldn't want to associate with Arabs, but with a common enemy, maybe he enterianed the idea. That’s the number one maxim for me: “If what one believes is true, then there’s no harm in investigating it.” Whenever you bring that one out on people, they scurry and scramble because there is that fear that they’re going to discover that all of their beliefs up until that point are hogwash.

On an unrelated note: the root word for “jihad” and “ijtihad” translates into German as “kampf”… as in “Mein Kampf– My Struggle”. I’ve been reading in conspiratorial tomes about Hitler’s use of anti-Semitic Arab spies during the Third Reich. Weird stuff- you’d think the Nazis wouldn’t want to associate with Arabs, but with a common enemy, maybe he enterianed the idea.

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