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| 2004-07-17 |
| Posted by:.com |
| #2 Wow. I'll agree that's where you start - but not with the rest of it. The assumption that the Wahhabist Imams are having no effect and are not radicalizing anyone isn't borne out by the facts. Additionally, Islam is not Christianity - and the Western assumptions that Western logic applies to non-Western culture is a huge mistake. Islam is much more than a trip to church once a week - it is a self-contained way of life. Sorry, but this is off the mark, IMHO. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-17 10:59:36 PM |
| #1 Here is a simpler definition and solution. Most of the Moslems living in the West are fairly unthreatening. Unfortunately, there is a problem in Islam that most Imams are trained by radical Wahabbis in Madrassas in such places as Pakistan. So you get relatively conservative, middle class congregations with a fire-breathing fanatic as their minister. A good analogy could be found in the Catholic religion, if the seminaries in 19th Century Ireland taught radical, violent rebellion against non-Catholic states. The Irish living in the US would not have any great desire to revolt against the government, but their priests would continually harp at them that it was their religious duty. The problem here, in either case, is not the congregants. And the solution lies not in hunting down and prosecuting or killing a regular person who has fallen under their sway. It is to go to the head of the snake, proper. Just like with the KKK or white supremacist groups, you hunt down the leaders and you arrest them for hate crimes. And not just in the US alone, but anywhere they preach. And if you can't arrest them... |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-07-17 10:52:44 PM |