Later On

I refer not to the previous post, though that is indeed a good example of bad thinking, but to Rick Santorum:

Earlier this week, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) delivered "a lecture on Islam" at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Santorum argued that the American public knows too little about the Islamic faith, and to prove his point, he asked the students whether they knew the difference between Sunnis and Shi’as. Only three audience members raised their hands. Santorum said that "he believes Muslims’ religious views cannot be changed or altered, so Middle Easterners reject American, democratic ideals. ‘A democracy could not exist because Mohammed already made the perfect law.’" Ironically, Santorum betrayed his own ignorance of Islam by declaring that Muslims believe that the "Quran is perfect just the way it is, that’s why it is only written in Islamic." As a self-anointed scholar of Islam, it’s surprising that Santorum would assert that the Qur’an is "written in Islamic." It is, of course, originally written in Arabic. Islam is not a language, but rather a religion. Santorum concluded, "I think that if every citizen was fully informed about the war, it would create a commonality between faiths." Indeed, much work remains to be done.