ISLAM, WROTE George Bernard Shaw, is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers. As an adherent to Islam i cant help but a agree with GBS. In the past decade the face of Islam has gone under incredible change, transforming the religion from what was once a resonibly non descript foreign faith into what i can confidently call today, the face of terrorism and evil in the west. The common perception is that Islam preaches hate, inolerance and violence, it does not. Individuals with there own personal agendas and warped ideals do, inturn converting the abundance of poverty striken uneducated young men to there cause, thus islamic fundementalism and the terrorist is born. Surely people can understand, that when the highly intelligent and manipulative leader informs an uneducated, poverty stricken youth, whos spent his entire life living in a refugee camp, his family dead, devoid of love..in short someone with nothing left to live for that if he blows himself up a far better world awaits him there is a chance that the youth will do so, not because of religious conviction or beleif that what they are doing is right, but for the promise of a better life in the hereafter? I guess what im trying to say is that these individuals are simply misguided. There actions are not a result of islam, their religion but of the socio-economic conditions they grew up in. The same goes for arguments about islams stance on womans rights ect ect..the usual stuff that i so often see on this forum. Christianity and christians were once just as backward as muslims. Real change for women only happened in the last half of the 20th century. A period where the west enjoyed an uninterupted period of prosperity and economic growth..as a result it had the luxury of being able to rethink and remould its culture and ideals. The islamic world has not had this luxury. Muslims today are amongst the poorest and most uneducated people in the world. Christians are the exact oposite. Maybe thats the reason for reform? To summise, what i am saying is that people should not judge a islam by its followers. There are bad people all over the world, their religion has very little to do with their nature. Look instead to there upbringing and there living conditions for a better understanding of why they behave as they do
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:46:06 +0000
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