Hence I said a couple of dozen pages ago, lol.
Here they are.
Actually, I tend to leave the left view on this subject.
And I'll probably be attacked for my opinion but
There are plenty of passages that call for violence in both the Koran and Hadith. These are what the extremist site for their actions. Of course one could say they are misinterpreting their holy book, but so is the case with every religion. You'd think the word of God would be pretty clear cut and absolute.....
I think looking at statistics/polls of the Muslim world shows it has a long way to go for human rights. And that's what concerns me most. I do not believe every Muslim is a terrorist or wants to spread Islam throughout the world. I think majority would prefer to be left alone.
But the numbers show a larger number than just a small minority who would prefer the death penalty for apostates, for drawing their prophet, banning or killing homosexuals. These aren't fringe numbers, in same cases they are the majority. Normal people like you and me who happen to hold pretty extreme view/beliefs.
I heard a decent analogy. That if Mormons went and killed the creators of South Park for the Book of Mormon, none of us would have excused that religion. If scientologists went around blowing themselves up in other countries, we would hold them accountable.
Extremism in Islam is a threat, and there has to be a better conversation about it. Maybe the media doesn't cover the reformers, or the Muslim population who speaks out against it, but it seems like they cannot out of fear of being a target.
The conversation has to happen within the Muslim community, the West can empower those moderate to liberal voices, but we've done enough damage by intervening.
I don't think we need to fight extremism with more extremism (Muslim ban) but we can't have every conversation end up the same way. Even if we eliminated terrorism, there's still plenty of human right issues carried out by the name of religion that needs reforming.
I don't know. It's early. I'm rambling
