| the2real4mafol said: Also i wish people could not use this as an excuse to hate on Islam. Its like comparing all Christians to Puritans or Mormons. Hate the extremists, not a whole religious group. There are Muslims all over the world and the vast majority are not barbaric at all. Funny how the Extremists Muslims only really exist where there has been war or drones strikes in recent years. If anything you can all thank western imperialism for this |
The West assisted these people back during the Cold War to fight against the Soviets but imperialism is not to blame for the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. The Wahhabi movement was the main push and their rise is almost by total luck. Their rivals, the Ottoman Empire, collapsed following World War I, and they found oil to fund their activities.
The Abrahamic religions in general have a lot of questionable text in their holy books but it is up to the responsibility of the reader too to understand something like stoning homosexuals is wrong and whoever promotes the stoning of homosexuals is a terrible person. We can't lay all the blame on people who lived in a time when they did not understand the Earth was sphere-like, the Earth goes around the sun and common knowledge that a wide variety of worldviews exist and are practiced.
ISIS is an extremist Islamist organisation just like how the KKK or the Westboro Bapist Church was/are an extremist Christain organisation but that does not mean that ISIS or others are representive of a religion of over one billion people. And ISIS poses the biggest threat right now to Sunni Muslims in Syria, Iraqi Kurdistan and Iraq, Shia Muslims in said areas and finally the Christains of Syria and Iraq, and while they are using Islam to try to justify their actions (and also using their version of Islam to try to manipulate people into joining their cause), there is no going around that ISIS as an organisation and people are just fucked up and that remains the same if they said they were Christain, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, Shinto, etc.
I am irreligious and an atheist and I think just laying the blame on an entire religion is scapegoating around the fact that some people are pretty fucked in the head. I have my fair share of criticism about religious texts based on historical, science, moral basises but the reader bares the brunt of responsibility of the actions they do inspired by the text, and I'm simplifiying that statement because I'm not in the mood to write an essay based on the power and influence of religion at 1:30 AM. But there are many Christains and Muslims who read their holy texts and are not horrible people so I definitely think that going on a witchhunt after every Muslim based on the actions and inspirations of ISIS, is rather counterproductive.
