| Tachikoma said: cant we just say "extremist" rather than tacking on islamist, by tacking on islamist you are basically peddling some of the blame to islam, when the blame should lay only with the asshole that carried out the actions.
And frankly, i neither buy into the religious scaremongering or approve of people using the actions of the few to condemn the many. |
Islam is definitely a part of the problem here.
Would you want to live in a country where Islam is the main religion? Besides Turkey, I would not! At least Turkey is a secular, democratic state (not without its own set of problems though). Islam has too much political power in the Islamic world.
With Christianity, there was always a distinction between secular power and religious power, even during the middle ages. With the Islam secular power and religious power was much more intertwined. A caliph has always had secular and religious authority. The Pope's political power was mostly restricted to the Papal States.
