Why I´m Not a Muslim
Ein Beitrag zum Thema Islam
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After what we have witnessed in the aftermath of 911, how much more often will we hear this defensive, apologetic, oft-repeated "magic line" that the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving, tolerant people when we try to objectively analyse why a lot of violence and terrorism are done by Muslims in the name of Islam ? Indeed, only a small minority of Muslims are radical Islamists and even smaller are terrrorists, however it's blatantly misleading to say that the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving, tolerant people...what we have seen so far is the vast majority of Muslims are disturbingly silent on the rampant atrocities perpetrated by their brothers in the name of their faith while millions from the youth, unemployed and the street workers to intellectuals to professionals to university professors throughout the Islamic world have shown implicit or explicit support and glee. What does that mean? It means that it is more appropriate to call it INDIFFERENCE rather than ACTIVE PEACE-LOVING MENTALIT
Now, let's talk about statistics as it doesn't lie. Let's talk about facts only to show how induldgent most of us has been made all these years by this statement "the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving people."
1. Today, most conflicts in the world involve Muslims from Asia to Middle East (obviously) to Africa to Europe to America: Indonesia, the Phillipines, Thailand (small one so far), Kashmir, India, China (potentially), Israel, Sudan, Nigeria, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan. Muslims fight each other and non-Muslims FAR MORE OFTEN than do peoples of other civilizations so perhaps the more apt category for this clash of civilizations to depict this is not Islam Vs. the West but Islam Vs. the Rest as no other civilization is on the Muslim's side other than itself. Islam has developed to be the greatest fascism of our day.
2. In the mid-1990's, roughly HALF the ethnic conflicts in the world involved Muslims fighting each other or non-Muslims.
3. Muslims were responsible for 11 and possibly 12 of 16 major acts of international terrorism between 1983 and 2000.
4. Five of the seven states listed by the US State Department as supporting terrorism are Muslim, as are a majority of foreign organisations listed as engaged in terrorism.
5. In counteractions between 1980 and 1995, the US armed forces engaged in 17 military operations against Muslims.
6. According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, 32 armed conflicts were underway in 2000; MORE THAN TWO THIRDS involved Muslims. Yet Muslims are only about one fifth of the world's population.
This statistics and the vicious patterns of violence involving Muslims won't abate anytime soon seeing the fervor many Muslims have rediscovered in
their religious identity all around the world. Their hostility and resentment against modernity symbolised by the West are a reaction against the very thing they covet and can not have due to the limiting, backward mindset fueled by their religion or their interpretation of it as some apologists would rather call it. To regain their battered self-esteem they turn to their religion and the illusion of its past glory and the false belief of the ultimate Utopia called the Islamic Caliphate of the 21st centruy as it is the only thing they have and this in turn perpetuates the backwardness and desperation and helplesness.
Hence, do not say that misleading and meaningless statement EVER again that "the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving, tolerant people." We don't know if it's true, and in many Islamic countries we just know for a fact that the majority Muslims are NOT that tolerant as the minorities (including Muslim women, Muslim intellectuals, free-thinkers and authors) can and will attest. What we do know for sure is OVER HALF OR POSSIBLY TWO THIRDS of big scale violence and world conflicts are involving members of ONE FIFTH of world's population. What we know for sure is these people as a whole are FAR MORE BELIGERENT than any other ethnic/religious group.
And we have just witnessed, their dishonesty and lack of integrity have resurfaced once again (I mean expecting them to issue a fatwa or declare jihad against OBL is a wishful thinking needless to say) after the "ultimate proof" they fervenly demanded 3 months ago on Bin Laden's involvement on 911 attacks was published. The vast majority are of course, as usual, silent about it but many have voiced their suspicion of or flatly rejected the authenticity of the video. So we know now that their concerns about lack of proof was only a pretext to protect their Muslim brother, that no amount of proof will make them turn against him....they didn't care from the start if he was guilty or not as the victims were only the infidel west anyway.
So is it wrong if immigration/VISA policies in America and Europe have worked against the Arabs and Muslims, something they lament as profiling and discrimination?? Of course not. It is fully understandable and seeing the statistics above no further explanation is needed to justify it.
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