I don't believe we are up against Fanatical Muslims such that we have to try to figure out which Muslims are the peaceful kind and which are the fanatical dangerous kinds. I believe that we need to look at things in a different way. That way would go something like this:
The Muslim religion is indeed a peaceful religion. The Muslims we see every day in our grocery stores, malls, as neighbors have no intention of doing us or anyone harm. They are normal people who live within the confines of their religious beliefs just as Catholics, Baptists, Mormons or anyone else with religion live. Their differing ways of dress, women covering their heads for example, is no more shocking than Mormon special underwear, except that we see the head covering and don't see the underwear.
However, the Muslim religion also has a political side. It has a side that rules nations and people. When a person of the Muslim religion is "radicalized" they embrace the side of Islam that is political and that side believes that all people must live under Muslim rule. That side of Islam is not religious at all. It is a purely political entity and would be compared not to Baptist or Catholic but to Naziism or Communism. The religious element is used as a cover for the fact that Political Islam is a governing entity, not a religious one.
Non radicalized Muslims are able to live side by side with people of other religions. Radicalized Muslims, those operating within the political Islam.......... cannot and will not live next to people not abiding by their laws and radicalization has made them ready to kill anyone refusing to abide by their laws.
Of course, there are some places where the political and religious Islam are fused. That leads to even more confusion as to exactly what we are fighting against. But the focus of our efforts must remain against political Islam, not so much religious Islam. If there is a fusion, then the efforts are against both at that point.
Once we understand what we are looking at, maybe it will help us contain it as we did Naziism when it became necessary to do so. I wonder to what point Political Islam will be allowed to go before we snuff it out? Naziism went to the point of killing millions of Jews before the world said "no". Will Political Islam be allowed to do that?
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer205/what-political-islam
http://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2013/05/29/religious-islam-vs-political-islam/
The Muslim religion is indeed a peaceful religion. The Muslims we see every day in our grocery stores, malls, as neighbors have no intention of doing us or anyone harm. They are normal people who live within the confines of their religious beliefs just as Catholics, Baptists, Mormons or anyone else with religion live. Their differing ways of dress, women covering their heads for example, is no more shocking than Mormon special underwear, except that we see the head covering and don't see the underwear.
However, the Muslim religion also has a political side. It has a side that rules nations and people. When a person of the Muslim religion is "radicalized" they embrace the side of Islam that is political and that side believes that all people must live under Muslim rule. That side of Islam is not religious at all. It is a purely political entity and would be compared not to Baptist or Catholic but to Naziism or Communism. The religious element is used as a cover for the fact that Political Islam is a governing entity, not a religious one.
Non radicalized Muslims are able to live side by side with people of other religions. Radicalized Muslims, those operating within the political Islam.......... cannot and will not live next to people not abiding by their laws and radicalization has made them ready to kill anyone refusing to abide by their laws.
Of course, there are some places where the political and religious Islam are fused. That leads to even more confusion as to exactly what we are fighting against. But the focus of our efforts must remain against political Islam, not so much religious Islam. If there is a fusion, then the efforts are against both at that point.
Once we understand what we are looking at, maybe it will help us contain it as we did Naziism when it became necessary to do so. I wonder to what point Political Islam will be allowed to go before we snuff it out? Naziism went to the point of killing millions of Jews before the world said "no". Will Political Islam be allowed to do that?
http://www.merip.org/mer/mer205/what-political-islam
http://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2013/05/29/religious-islam-vs-political-islam/
