Re: What non-Muslims do not understand about Muslim extremism/violence
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ACC
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Date: December 12, 2017 01:29PM
Averroes Wrote:
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> Many public and non-public figures in Western
> Society comment on Islam and the violence waged in
> its, but do so in a very opaque way. They point to
> various passages in the Quran that not only
> encourage, but mandate followers to wage war on
> the Kuffar, or the non-believers, without
> acknowledging the fact that the Bible contains
> more violent passages.
>
> This is not to say that violence committed by any
> religion is not abhorrent. All religions have
> two-faces and their fair share of moderates and
> zealots. What many non-Muslims do not take into
> consideration is the context with which violent
> acts in the name of Islam are committed.
>
> In the early centuries of Islam, the goal of
> Muslim violence was to conquer, subjugate and
> promote the spread of the faith as well as ensure
> its survival in a very competitive, and spiritual
> world where the faith had to compete with more
> established religions e.g. Christianity, Judaeism,
> Zoroastrianism etc. Those days are long gone, and
> Muslim violence now stems mostly from political
> motivations and frustration at a world dominated
> by Western culture.
>
> How do you suppose Christians would deal with a
> world that was decidedly slanted towards Muslim
> cultural values? Imagine no Christian majority
> nations had the political or military power to
> resist Muslim intervention?
>
> Violence is bad, no matter why it is committed.
> Maybe if some took the time to really understand
> why these acts are committed, they can be stopped.
Except Christians no longer act those violent passages out.
2000 years later Muslims still stone/murder/rape victims like it’s no big deal.