There are non-Muslims who invent neologisms like "the religion of peace", and who avoid the fact that Islamist terrorists groups are Islamic at all, thus failing to highlight a significant factor in Islamic extremism (Islam).
Right. So you're saying Islam is inherently extremist? If that is the case why are a majority of Islamic scholars against extremist organisations such as ISIS? Have those scholars not studied enough?
Right. So you're saying Islam is inherently extremist? If that is the case why are a majority of Islamic scholars against extremist organisations such as ISIS? Have those scholars not studied enough?
They are sane enough not to follow the extreme elements of the Qu'ran and the Hadiths. They realise that cutting off the fingers of non-believers and reigning fire on gays is probably a bit much.
There are countless articles published by newspapers reporting things essentially as fact that turned out to be false. So implying that something must be true because a newspaper says skmething is "suspected" is just wrong.
There are countless articles published by newspapers reporting things essentially as fact that turned out to be false. So implying that something must be true because a newspaper says skmething is "suspected" is just wrong.
Didn't say it must be true, just saying it very probably is. I'm sure there are far, far more articles that turn out to be true, than those that don't.
Didn't say it must be true, just saying it very probably is. I'm sure there are far, far more articles that turn out to be true, than those that don't.
Is this how desensitised some people have become to Islamic violence? Your emotional response to all this horrific s*** can be summed up with a smily rolling it's eyes?
Don't get sanctimonious with me. Your agenda is evident to anyone who's familiar with your threads.
My agenda to bring light to a terrible force in the world?
No, it's to perpetuate anti-Islamic/Muslim sentiments. We're all aware of the atrocities committed by Islamic terrorists around the world, but what you've done is collect a few links about incidents that are vaguely related to Islam, while ignoring the geopolitics, the role of cultural attitudes, etc to paint Islam in an especially bad-light. One could do the same with other religions, political ideologies, etc by focusing on them, and create the impression that the world is burning down due to some religion/ideology. It's quite a clever method of inciting hatred. Your fixation of Islam is motivated by a deeply irrational fear of Islam, which in turn leads you to see Islam in the news from a tunnel-vision perspective. What you and your Islamophobic friends have missed out on is that really there are actually three distinct phenomena that overlap:
1) You have your grievance-based extremism which comes from anger about western wars in the middle east, support for Israel, police repression etc. Anger about those issues exists in every faith group in Europe but there's going to be more anger from Muslims given that they are the ones who are being directly affected by this.
2) You have 'communal' or 'honour-based' violence. Anger about the Muhammad cartoons for instance, along with examples like sectarian killings, attacks on apostates or so-called blasphemers. Again this is not a faith-centred issue but a cultural one, non-Muslims do those things too.
3) And finally you have actual ideologically-driven Salafi fanaticism of the sort that groups like ISIS or the Saudi clergy adhere to. For those sects there doesn't necessarily need to be any sort of grievance or offence to justify violence, terror is justified for its own sake. Ideological terror like this is mostly a Muslim problem, but there's also a similar but much smaller non-Muslim movement in the form of Neo-Nazism.ideology
Each of these different terror threats exists across religious and ethnic boundaries, but in the Muslim community all three happen to come together at once and inter-connect with each other. You have a cultural group with a strong sense of communal or collective honour suffering from a variety of legitimate grievances and at the same time you have a violent ideology that can feed off of those sentiments. The differences between these tendencies are too subtle for the media and the public to really pick up, creating the impression that there is a single phenomenon of 'Islamic' terrorism.
They are sane enough not to follow the extreme elements of the Qu'ran and the Hadiths. They realise that cutting off the fingers of non-believers and reigning fire on gays is probably a bit much.
Technically isn't this want you wanted? (Despite you not doing anything) Islam has reformed right?
No, it's to perpetuate anti-Islamic/Muslim sentiments. We're all aware of the atrocities committed by Islamic terrorists around the world, but what you've done is collect a few links about incidents that are vaguely related to Islam, while ignoring the geopolitics, the role of cultural attitudes, etc to paint Islam in an especially bad-light. One could do the same with other religions