Terror in the Mind of God - 2

Mark Juergensmeyer spoke of a little Christian woman who just tore apart a Muslim leader in their meeting. He made sure to show that she showed him that women should have rights and that there have been many advances in woman rights in the Saddam regime and after the US invasion as well. What was most interesting is that she used the Koran to show him his fallacies.

This is the most crucial point of his talk. He made the point that he thinks religion is the very means to the necessary fix to the religious fanaticism which has caused so damage and pain and destruction. If we are to show them correct ways of thinking or the error in their own, we are to use their texts to show them where they are in error. The texts are the base of the beliefs, the source of what is true (to them), and everything else is based in such text. If we attempt to approach them from another view, the will simply reject us at our cornerstone. This little Christian woman did very well in showing the Muslim his error in thought through his own source of truth. In was in this way that he receded to the fact that he did not know.