Hecklers

Went to a talk today by Mona Siddiqui entitled 'what faith can offer morality' at the LSE. Really really didn't want to go but Y forced me. Oh well I should just be happy he doesn't watch football - though it would be nice if he liked cricket. Anyway the talk was lame. She read off a piece of paper the whole way - to the extent that at the end yshe said 'and my last paragraph...'. Ridiculous. And her points were totally random as well - one anecdote: "I asked a rabbi once, 'how do we know, how do we really know whether God really wants there to be justice on earth and there not to be any inequality?' and he said to me 'If something is bad/immoral then it cannot be divine'...................................................................

I mean what the h*** is that supposed to mean?! I stopped listening and did my work dring the lecture so it wasn't totally unproductive. And then the Q & As. There was the compulsory old indian man present who kicked off proceedings by standing and clearing the phlegm in his throat before launching into 5 minutes of non stop nonsense.

Then there were the hecklers. In this case it was the secularists. It just felt like they wanted to assert some moral superiority over the people of faith by stating that they had morals without needing faith even. And we were dim believers who needed fairy tales to tell us the difference between right and wrong.

Personally I feel man is corrupt. Man is Animal. Man needs rules. Divine superior timeless spaceless rules. If you let man, arrogant man make rules injustice, divisiion and coccuption inevitably prevails. The problem we have now though is that the morality that faith can offer is only available at a small scale, even individual level.

To be honest, I cant be asked with this airy fairy adademic musings.

IN other news, UN soldiers abuse children in African countries. Great. :( How can we live, smile, go on when this type of stuff is happening. May Allah bring justice to earth and bring the innocent to Him. Ameen.