Tuesday, September 7, 2010

What's Right With Islam IS What's Right With America


"If Americans cannot make peace with this man, we cannot make peace with Islam."
-- Stephen Prothero
My Take: Imam Rauf is Not a Moderate

And here is my two-cents worth:

No one can satisfactorily understand what Feisal Abdul Rauf's message is all about without understanding the underlying worldview that is common to the foundation of Islam and the Federal Republic of the U.S. Both Islam and the Republic were/are founded on the covenant/federal theology of Abrahamic monotheism, which postulates a primordial covenant between God and His creation, especially Adam, the Human Race. And what, concomitantly, ensues from that covenanted relationship by way of 'Rights and Duties' on all levels of life.

In our days of secular and religious fundamentalism, the fact that the founding generation of the American Republic were descendants of the Protestant Reformation, and that Protestantism was defined by federal theology, is not understood, to say the least.

To cut a long story short, a good start on the subject that may facilitate further understanding, of what Imam Feisal is trying to communicate for those concerned, is this book on the American monotheistic foundation:

"The Covenant Connection: From Federal Theology to Modern Federalism," Daniel Judah Elazar, John Kincaid (edtrs.)

May it be of help.

M.T.