Part 1

Date: 2015-11-17 02:56 pm (UTC)
"Islam is at war with entire world."

How are you defining "Islam?" Every Muslim? Shi'a? Sunni? Takfiri? We need to define terms. I'll quote a friend (whose words I quoted in a previous post yesterday as well.)

-Muslims who believe that Islam should be the basis of the state are Islamists.
-Suuni Islamists who believe the Islamic state should be built off of 14th Century principles or the restoration of the Caliphate are Salafists.
-Salafists who are willing to break the law of the Koran by declaring another Muslim apostate and kill them are Takfiri.

Takfiri are largely our problem.
Not Salifists.
Not Islamists.
And certainly not Muslims.


To simply say "Islam is at war..." is of no more use than if we'd said "Christianity is at war..." when Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah building or when a white supremacist Christian shot up a black church - all terrorist actions done in the name of Jesus, but in no way establishing "Christianity" being at war with anyone. (And indeed, more people are killed every year in the US in the name of Jesus than Allah - yet why aren't we asking "how sad that no matter how many years go by, not matter how much blood is spilled, people WILLFULLY refuse to see it?" Have you spoken out, recently, about Kevin Swanson calling for the death of gay people?

But that question was facetious. Christians are not a problem. I would never argue that. The problem is a specific tiny minority of people using religion as a justification for political murder, just as in Islam the problem is Salafism, Wahhabism, and their more radical subsets. And yes, of course, we have to address that. We can't just ignore it, and I advocate no such thing. But we have to understand who the enemy is (and who it is not) if we have any hope of victory against it.

More in part 2, because this comment got too long.
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