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The Trouble With Islam

Part MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMCLIX

 

Five or ten years ago, I investigated the process of becoming a papist. Going Cath seemed like a good idea at the time.

Turned out, der prozess took a whole two years.

I've put it off.

(It takes that long to get a driver's licence!)

I guess the Anglicans have a similar wait time. (Maybe only a year.)

To become a Jew, well, you know you can't just do that. I suspect a convert to Judaism isn't an acceptable Jew until he's dead and can be buried in a Jewish cemetery. His kids, however, may be full Jews.

To join the United Church, you have to show your NDP membership card.

But Islam? Let me show you. You count as my witness. "There is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet."

And Poof I'm a Moslem. Yep. That's all the converting it takes.

Thus, there is no screening to authorize conversion. There's no-one to say, "Learn the Catechism." No-one to say, "Apply for your NDP card." You just say so, and you are.

That's the problem (delineated in this Part) right there.

To become a Catholic you have to be watched for two years. Plenty of time for a faather to ask, "Does he think he's Napoleon? If not, why the tricorn?"

This is what's called in Taylorist terms quality control.

And Islam has no quality control. None.

(Shaitan tells me: For Islam, craziness isn't a bug, it's a feature!)

**NEWSFLASH More information has now come in about Zehaf-Bibeau. He was a Muslim three years ago. Hardly a "recent convert"! But I'm not stopping now because as Boon said he's rolling.**

Where was I? Oh yes. A simple hypothetical.

Let's say, oh, a noticeable number of the members of a religious order start to, ah, start to diddle with kids. Someone notices ... then a lot of people notice. Folks in positions of authority in the religious order say, hey, it's got nothing to do with the religious order. It's all just chance!

How believable would that be?

Thus it can be argued that Islam has to somehow reform, probably by catching up to the enlightenment. They could stop being The World's Most Dangerous Religion.

They need to drop the violence, and they need to start administering admittance testing.

It's a modest proposal.

And not let us proceed to trouble number MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMCLX.