VGPolyglot said:
tokilamockingbrd said:
exactly what are these far right groups "guilty" of besides not alighing with your view of the world?
Have you ever wondered why Muslims seem to "radicalize" so easily? It is because they are not radicalizing in the true sense. They just begin to take their holy teachings literally instead of in metaphor.
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And it's impossible to take the entire Quran literally because it has so many contradictions. Therefore, they have to choose which parts to believe and which parts to ignore. And societal factors are what helps them choose which parts to follow.
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yes, but my point is their holy text if taken at face value gives them a charge to wage Jihad in the way they are.
Compare this with Christianity. There is not one spot in the Bible where God gives his followers a blanket "license to kill" non believers. Yes in the Old Testament the Jews were told to kill, but it was always very specific(ie go destroy nation X), not something you can read as a reason to kill anyone else.
As the west became more literate it became harder for the Church to weaponize the faith (Crusades, Inquisitions, etc) because once people could read it for themselves they did not see any calls for violance. The inverse is true with Islam.
I am not saying I believe all Muslims are terrorist or support terrorism. I am just saying the religion of Islam due to its core doctrines has and will continue to see some its followers attack infedels.