Too many Muslims view civilization, and the peaceful co-existence of people of different faiths, as something they must combat. Many Europeans can sense this attitude among Muslims. To be honest, I understand their fear … The West cannot force Muslims to adopt a moderate interpretation of Islam.
But Western politicians should stop telling us that fundamentalism and violence have nothing to do with traditional Islam. That is simply wrong. One must identify the problem and explicitly state who and what are responsible for it. Over the past 50 years, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have spent massively to promote their ultra-conservative version of Islam worldwide.
After allowing this to go unchallenged for so many decades, the West must finally exert decisive pressure upon the Saudis to cease this behavior … I admire Western, especially European, politicians.
Their thoughts are so wonderfully humanitarian. But we live in a time when you have to think and act realistically. The last time I was in Brussels I witnessed some Arab, perhaps North African, youth insult and harass a group of policemen. My Belgian friends remarked that such behavior has become an almost everyday occurrence in their country.
Why do you allow such behavior? The brutality of the Christians in the Crusades was unmatched. John L. Esposito writes in Islam: The Straight Path:. It should be clear from the passages cited from the works of Pervez Hoodbhoy, Salman Rushdie, and ibn Warraq that these humanist authors hope and believe there is a possibility that Islam can evolve throughout much of the world toward more democratic, pluralistic societies.
And I totally share their goals of promoting rationalism, secularism, democracy, and human rights within Islamic society. But what is missing is a realistic plan to accomplish this. To ask for all this at once is to ask for too much, too soon. We will do even better if we work hard to eradicate political and economic inequalities—to empower the powerless, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, educate the young, and heal the sick.
This is a message all Muslims will understand. David Schafer is a consulting editor for the Humanist and a recently retired physiologist who now devotes most of his time to humanist research, writing, and teaching. Palestinian writer Edward Said [of Christian background, teaching at Columbia University], among others, has insistently pointed out that Islam holds very different meaning for different people. Within my own family, hugely different kinds of Islam are practiced.
The religion is as heterogeneous as those who believe and follow it. Their attention should be directed to his criticism of the West: The United States, too, must confront bitter truths.
The messages of George W. Bush and Tony Blair fall flat while those of bin Laden, whether he lives or dies, resonate strongly across the Muslim world. Americans will also have to accept that their triumphalism and disdain for international law are creating enemies everywhere, not just among Muslims.
Therefore they must become less arrogant and more like other peoples of this world. Change had become unavoidable, and the writers. Regarding to , Hourani observes: Two strands of thought. For most of. According to Abou el Fadl: Classical Muslim jurists were uncompromisingly harsh toward rebels who used what the jurists described as stealth attacks and, as a result, spread terror. Muslim jurists considered terrorist attacks against unsuspecting and defenseless victims as heinous and immoral crimes, and treated the perpetrators as the worst type of criminals.
Although these terrorist groups adopt various theological justifications for their behavior, their ideologies, symbolism, language and organizational structure reflect the influence of the anti-colonial struggle of the developing world. Zaneti, who described herself as a moderate Muslim, said she harbors some of the angry opinions towards the Western world that radicals do, but she said she makes up her mind from reading newspapers, not the Koran.
When asked what she thought of America, Zaneti said the United States isn't living up to its ideals. Especially countries it gets into and invades.
I'm sorry but who do you think you are? In fact, many in the Islamic world think the U. According to experts of the Koran, the text talks about an obscure law called "al taquiya" that encourages its believers to lie about their faith to non-Muslims to avoid persecution.
However, extremists have turned this into a diabolical loophole for recruiting. The part of the verse radical recruits choose to ignore is the commad for Muslims to "shun false speech. However, Hamid disagreed and said religion absolutely plays a part. He points out that Christians living in impoverished villages in the Middle East, without democracy, and who are exposed to the same setiment about American foreign policy are not becoming terrorists.
Ignoring it is just like ignoring that you are facing a brick wall and you continue to running and insist that doesn't exist," Hamid said. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? But when it comes to domestic violence the advice needs to be One problem with strategies designed to encourage imams to spruik the merits of gender equality is that all of them are men.
Can you imagine how difficult it is for a young woman to walk into the office of an imam on her own? Accessing pastoral care from imams is a real challenge. Though some Muslims support the idea of recognising women as faith leaders, Dr Tokhi said, "the majority of Australian Muslims aren't there yet".
For that reason, MPV runs facilitated Koran discussion groups to encourage "ordinary Muslims" to engage with more inclusive interpretations of the sacred text. Dr Tokhi also hopes Australian Muslims will embrace the global ImamsForShe campaign, which highlights the responsibility of imams, Muslim leaders and scholars to address violence against women by promoting gender equality in their communities. Of course, no one disagrees that training imams in the dynamics of domestic violence is important.
Topics: domestic-violence , relationships , women , islam , social-media , womens-health , australia. First posted April 24, Contact Hayley Gleeson.
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