Aneirin
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Islam, an offshoot of Christianity, is not the danger to the western world, it is a benign religion, where muslims, actually try to follow the moral code set down in their holy book, the koran, unlike many who call themselves Christian. But despite their belief, they are just people, just like the rest of us. Now of course they have problems, just like us, they have inter belief interpretational conflicts, the battles between the different sects, the shia and the sunni being two examples, but on the whole, the moslems just want to get on with life, just like the rest of us, as after all, they are just people. My understanding of Islam, where it is in history, well, it being an offshoot of christianity, something 600ad, it is behind christianity, by 600 years, so what we see, might be the barbarism of christianity, 600 years ago, what was christianity like then, a theocracy, with wars started over religion, and people tortured and killed because of failing to tow the theocratical line, the so called witches and heretics, which basically amounted to an absolute power over life and death by a corrupt minority. Six hundred years on, Christianity has lost it's grip on people, no longer does it threaten and kill to maintain discipline amongst the ranks, maybe this is what Islam will become, but like Christianity, it has got to be allowed to run it's natural course, people, the believers will decide for themselves.
But what of the militant muslim now, those that bomb and kill in the name of their religion, well, they are not the majority, that is for sure, perhaps even a very small percentage of hot heads, and anger merchants, perhaps even people with chips on their shoulders, looking for an outlet for their personal anger at the world around them, they are in a muslim culture, so hey fight in the name of god a good enough reason and a convenient reason, but stripped of their fanatical faith, what's underneath, but a maladjusted person, perhaps a potential criminal, the likes we know of world wide of every faith, or no faith. But what we see of the Islamic world, is largely the negative side, as it suits those with agendas on our side of the fence, they love these fanatics in Islamic countries, for they have a reason to see threat, arm up and so called keep the peace. Interestingly, the fanatics on our side of the fence are not loved as much, but with religion, there are always fanatics, and Christianity is steeped in a fanatical past, one just has to examine history to see that, kings didn't rule, the church did.
Islam, is a culture of beauty and science, take the time to look at their past achievements, 1001 inventions, a recent exhibition listed all the things we in our western world take for granted, which came from Islam, our numeral system, much of our mathematical theorem and a history which is lost to the west, the remnants of the Alexandria library, might be in Africa, recent discoveries in Timbuktu, but when Baghdad was the centre of the Islamic empire, scholars collected what remained from the Greeks, and there developed it, we owe Islam a lot, lets not take the bad and use it as a reason to hate, as it is the actions of an extreme minority that are ruining it for the majority, hey, just like over here.
Maybe it is time to learn about yet another offshoot of Christianity, for they have much for us to learn, and perhaps together, we can both fight the common enemy, the fanatic in all our midsts.
But regards the OP, what is happening, draws parallels with medieval Christian Europe, very difficult to condemn, when Christianity did it too, and on a large scale, the power of theocracy again.
Oh, before Islam came to the arabs, they were largely heathen, pagans, maybe even christianity is a disease we the world could have done without, but I suppose pagans would argue and fight too, the reality of it all, is religion is a vehicle for the maladjusted to rise quickly to power and there rule with an iron fist.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha
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