Can We Undermine Islamic Religious Beliefs?

One obvious long-term solution to fighting Islamic extremism is to use science, logic and common sense to undermine the beliefs of their silly religion..

If you don’t agree with me about the “silly” part, I suggest you google “Islam” or “Islamic Beliefs” and see for yourself. If you say you’re “not interested”, then that’s all the more reason to wake up and get interested because the most committed of them are out to kill us and our children! That should motivate you.

(Then again, according to the Quran, all we Infidels are all destined for hell anyway (Quran 6:27), so why bother?)

Can we do it? Can we undermine Islamic beliefs using science and logic? I think we can, if only incrementally. Should we try? I think we should, although questioning anyone’s religious beliefs remains our society’s biggest taboo. It’s politically incorrect to the max. Even Howard Stern stays away from it. But now that Islamic beliefs are affecting our very security, maybe it's time to let go of the taboo.

Have you read the stuff they believe in? It shouldn’t be hard to argue that maybe this stuff is more fantasy than truth. Maybe Mohammed did not ascend into heaven from the site of the Temple Mount in present-day Jerusalem. Maybe the voice Mohammed heard was not the Angel Gabriel, but just a damn voice (remember the movie, A Beautiful Mind). Maybe it’s all just an elaborate story made up by men who were so good at fanticizing that they came to believe their own fantasties (like a certain president I know).

Of course, for me it’s not a question of “maybe”, but planting questions using the word “maybe” might be the most effective way to start the undermining process. We have to get Muslim believers to start questioning their faith! We could start with a 'captive audience" (get it?) in Guantanamo. Send some agnostics and/or Evangelical Christians down there to talk some sense into them!

It’s always been unbelievable to me that intelligent, grown adults, some quite educated, can believe in the truth of the Quran (or any holy text). But they do!!! Granted, not all Muslims are extremists, but the moderates deserve blame for supporting and enabling the radicals by not objecting loudly enough when the Quran is cited as justification for killing non-believers.

Assuming we can all agree that “undermining their religion” is a practical move, then why don’t we at least try to do it? I’m not saying it would be easy – religious faith is a powerful force. But why not begin the process? We would have the full force of logic and scientific knowledge on our side.

Then why don’t we start doing it? Why don’t we launch a deliberate campaign of planting ‘seeds of doubt” about the veracity of the Quran in the minds of Muslims? We can suggest that maybe -- just maybe -- it’s no more than a "great book” and not the “literal word of God, as revealed to His Prophet Mohammed through the Angel Gabriel.” I know from personal experience that once the doubt sets in, it can become a tsunami.

On the surface, it doesn't seem like it should be hard. (Of course it will be, thanks to the irrational Power of Religious Faith). But it’s doable over time, especially if we focus on the young. Some of those who start to doubt will get angry (as I did) over having been bullshitted all these years!

But alas, it will never happen, not with this administration. People like Bush would never consider discrediting a “great religion” like Islam – and not just because it will piss off the Muslims even more, if that's possible.

The reason: Once the taboo of publicly questioning Islam is removed, CHRISTIANITY COULD BE NEXT!