Re-echoing Robert A. Pape's
stipulation (a political scientist at the University of Chicago), Mehdi Hasan,
an ambassador for Islam, says, "there is little connection between suicide
terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism. Rather what nearly all suicide terrorist
attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel
modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the
terrorists consider to be their homeland.
Backing up his argument by quoting
Great Gallup's analytics (American research-based, global
performance-management consulting company founded by George Gallup in 1935), he
added:
- 93% of the Muslim population is
“moderate.”
- Only 7% of the Muslim population is
“radical.”
- Being a religious Muslim doesn’t
make you a radical.
- “Radicals” are politically extreme,
not necessarily religiously extreme; and give political reasons, not religious
reasons, for condoning terrorism.
- “Radicals” are better educated,
have better jobs, and are more hopeful about the future than are “moderates”;
they also support democracy/ believe in democracy more than the “moderates” do,
but are just cynical about getting it themselves.
- Muslims don’t want secularism or
theocracy, but a democracy based on religious values.
- Muslims don’t hate the West, they
just don’t want Western ways imposed on them.
REFLECTION:
Matthew 22:36-40 (Bible) "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to
him, 22 "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first
commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
Surah 2:120 (Quran) And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their
religion. Say, "Indeed, the guidance of Allah is the [only]
guidance." If you were to follow their desires after what has come to you
of knowledge, you would have against Allah no protector or helper.
Surah 2:62 (Quran) Indeed, those who believed
and those who were Jews or Christians or Sabeans [before Prophet Muhammad] -
those [among them] who believed in Allah and the Last Day and did righteousness
- will have their reward with their Lord, and no fear will there be concerning
them, nor will they grieve.
Does a
particular group of Muslim and Christianity both involve in any violent
forms? In what aspects, present
activities do they both involve with, which infringe the values of the Bible and
Koran?
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