(December 7, 2015 at 7:55 pm)abaris Wrote:(December 7, 2015 at 7:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I do[color=#333333] think the Islam ideology, as it stands right now, has one major issue - and that is that it can be easily taken in a way that gets many people do many heinous things.
You are aware, how many shades and colors Islam actually has? There is no islamic ideology, there are only more or less literal interpretations being at odds with each other. Right now, most of the more violent movements are Sunni, but that doesn't mean that Sunni is inherently more violent. Sunni, again, breaks down into many aspects, depending on region and culture.
That's the problem with blankets. They just don't fit.
People aren't making blanket statements. You just insert them everywhere. If every time you wanted to talk about how Islam and it's various sects relate to violence in modern times, you had to go through a big cock-waving 'look at how much I know' history lesson, you would get nowhere. I don't think you really want to have that conversation though, which is why your format of conversation is always the same:
It starts out 'You need to learn about history, you are making blanket statements, a list of different Muslim countries, a statement that they are different from one another, a few barely relevant historical facts that don't tie into what's being discussed, repetition of 'you need to learn about history' "
If you don't understand, from history, that Islam influences and has influenced the political structures of various middle eastern countries, or if you have no reply to that, then you wasted your money on your degree.