Random Reflexions

It will be good if the fools die off in the process of practicing their idiocy.

Ahmed Adam,

Erm, aren't we getting a bit too worked up here...and violently so too?

Just keep it constructive or why bother writing if you don't have anything of that sort to add?

Aw, shoot. When I came back to reply, the comments in your previous post was disbaled.

Simon: we all know that your posts are just your view of the state of Muslims. Similar to yourself, I too want to see Maldives make strides in the field of world sciences and acquire higher standards of living. How Muslims (we) should reconciliate our faith with science is beyond me.

The way I see it, you cannot actually put the facts right infront of generations of people who have been living their lives based on a mere 'belief'. For them, their whole world will collapse. I am betting this might be the reason why there will be stiff resistance to change - and certainly much difficult to do this through normal conventions of resolving social disputes.

It's a sensitive business- human behaviour unlike most world sciences are difficult to examine and even more difficult to assimilate with world systems. Today on the news, I was horrified to discover the scene on TV was filmed at AA. Himandhoo (forgot the name of the island). A gang of zealots dressed in their wearing paki-clothing, masks, scarfs and armed with 2"x4"s were lined up confronting the police.

Things are actually that bad. How do you propose we 'import' modernism into a country that is completely detached from the realm of rationality? We certainly cannot resort to a crackdown nor could we afford to ignore these dangerous social trends taking place right now.

What do you people think ought to be our first priorities in dealing with the growing Extremism in the Maldives?

Can the Muslim world really collapse just because a handful of youngsters are a little misguided? Or maybe you just forgot to mention that these guys are the brightest minds we have at the moment. In that case, yeah, we're screwed.

No, I suppose we have much clever people. I just wonder what the hell they are doing while those with the 'divine guidance' take the Jihad to the streets.

seriously! the once smart Islamic empire is being destroyed by its own stubbornness!

Simon: I don't know to what extent your reputation is being harmed by these posts, have you had any repercussions in real life? I just want to say thanks for talking about all these things that no one else dares to or do not even question
I wholeheartedly agree with you.

We are so bogged down with our rituals and traditions, we have become mired in the past. there is no progressive thinking. How can there be progressive thinking when we are trying to imitate everything that happened in the past? Progress comes with constant evaluation. progress comes with questioning. we as a society are crippled because there is no critical thinking. we are spoon fed by the society around us who dictate who we should be. it definitly is a sad state.

also check out this post on a blog i happened by to read about some comments youth have about religion: http://arufius.blogspot.com/2007/10/lailathul-qadhr.html

this is the state of our youth!

:) Yea it's all falling apart!!! That's one solid argument in favor of it.

"I just love being right"- hehe umm..o-Kk.

till next time

I think we learns good things by understanding whats wrong in the bad things. There is nothing wrong in studying sth that is wrong (or sth that people accepts as a bad thing). It is so sad to hear that our beloved Prophets path is falling apart.

Fear not Mr.Blogged...as long as there are people like you and me, we won't let that happen..inshAllah.

we're in a heady state of decline, religion wise. the himendhoo incidents says it all. The president needs to take part of the blame for ignoring the actions suggested by the former attorney general to counter Islamic fundamentalism.

anywayz the worrying part is it's only gonna get worse with for e.g. the number of fully veiled women growing day by day, among other things..

thanx for the comment in my blog

Prophet's path is not fallin apart. It is us who are falling into pieces.

Qur'an, Sura 2; Verse 141: "That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what they did and you of what you do! Of their merits, there is no question in your case."

From all appearances, veils and beards are increasing at an unstoppable speed. It's simply a matter of time before the whole of Maldives does a Himendhoo act. One could hardly call this a collapsing system.

I believe any display of lawlessness such as what happened in AA.Himandhoo cannot be blamed solely on religious ideologies. To simplify the dissection of such events to casual discussions over whether a particular religion has failed is extremely immature (the gusto with which Simon declares the failure of a belief system which ties a world-wide community of millions for centuries is distasteful as well. Sorry Simon).

I don't have an exhaustive list of reasons why the citizens of Himandhoo acted in the way they did but it would certainly be worthwhile to spend some time thinking on the subject. Taking into account the possibility that people lie all the time, I've personally spoken to many so-called 'extremists' from Himandhoo who, I strongly believe, identify themselves as a persecuted minority. Questions over how the state and all it's newly-formed institutions (I'm looking at you Human Rights Commission of the Maldives) could let this perception of being persecuted persist unchecked is more to blame than religious ideologies. Religion is more than just philosophy. It also permeates most aspects of social life so sometimes social conflict is more to blame than differences in ideology (although the two are related of course).

Cool site. Thank you!