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freedomdwarf1 -> RE: The French Learn Their Lesson (1/31/2015 10:42:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
So Butch...how do you figure the percentage of radicals? And by what methodology?
It's not just the extremists and radicals Muse, it's the whole religious standpoint.
People can cherry-pick all sorts of shit from the bible and the qoran to support the good and the bad. The essential thing is, most of the world's religions are at least trying to keep up with 'modern' society and its intrinsic values. Unfortunately, most Islamists don't and neither does the religion.
Therein lies half, if not the majority, of the problem.
The Islamic faith, even in the most moderate of terms, is still 500+ years behind most other modern religions. The clerics and other Islamic leaders around the world still follow those ancient scriptures and have extended them beyond the book into their cultural lifestyle (eg; Sharia Law).
They say one thing to your face (and to the media) but actually believe in the total opposite - as dictated/written in their qoran.
I have seen the behaviour of some (most?) Muslims at our local school and there were an awful lot of them that didn't/wouldn't observe the minute silence. The white kids stood still, even in the playground, many non-whites didn't.
How did I know they were Muslims and not something else? That would be a good question and I can only go by the fact that they were 1) non-white, 2) wore traditional Muslim garb, 3) many that I personally knew come from local Muslim families.
Yes, these kids are being force-fed bad religion and hate and some of these will no doubt grow up to be jihadists of the future.
Call it what you will and you can dig up various bits where there are non-Islamic bad things happening; but I posit that the majority of extremist actions come from the Islamic faith and that faith, in and of itself, is anathema to the general way of western life.
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