Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
How can that which has no second be offended by anything? Exactly what is over against it that can offend it?
If Islam has no peer, then it has no second to offend it.
Or, you boys want it both ways? You want to claim exclusive validity and perpetuity and also offendability? That is against Reason (Logos), as Pope Benedict XVI warned you at Regensburg, Bavaria, on Tuesday, 12 September 2006, and therefore, hypocritcal and without legs.
Islam/Mohmmned/Koran/Sharia/Mosque/Imam/Ayatollah, etc., cannot be offended and neither can a Muslim. No religion can be offended, nor can any adherent of a religion.
That fact stands over against and judges every approximation of itself, whether potential, actual or fictional.
Update 1: Why ISIS Is Irrational: The Asharite/Mutazilite Conflict
Update 2: Stephen M. Kirby: The Lure Of Fantasy Islam
Update 3: Counter-Terrorism: Fundamental Changes Inside Islam
Update 4: Theological Explanations of Islamist Radicalism Deeply Mistaken, Russian Scholars Say
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA