Conservapedia Wrote:Sudden Jihad Syndrome is a term coined by Daniel Pipes to describe Muslims that suddenly or unexpectedly turn against civilized, Western society and engage in acts of terror. [1]. Pipes has argued that due to this phenomenon all Muslims must be considered potential terrorists.[2]
1. Is the word being coined as a medical condition?
2. Why doesn't he apply the same syndrome to Christians, Jews, and others whenever they kill someone? Why only the Muslims?
3. Just because a Muslim commits a crime doesn't mean that it was religiously motivated (i.e. act of "Jihad"). It may be, but not always. All crimes have to be labeled so case-by-case.
4. One should be wary of the fact that many of these religious violence are a form of state violence which are instigated by extremist Muslims.
Read the following, which is continued in the link below:
Quote:Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit’s speech made on International Women’s Day in Strasbourg earlier this month. Please listen to the words of a bereaved mother, whose daughter fell victim to a vicious, indiscriminating terrorist attack. I wish her words will enter the hearts of all peace seekers in our troubled and divided world.
Article: Israeli mother Addresses European Parliament
5. This is another silly argument by someone trying to give more fuel to the notion of "Islamophobia" (in the words that I highlighted above).
Quote:This, too, is a question of how we define Islamophobia. Is it just another definition for racism, and specifically racism against people with Muslim names, whatever their religious standing. Or is it the rejection of a religion? There are militant anti-racists who are against the veil – among the feminists for example - and there are racists who think the veil is irrelevant because they regard Muslims as quintessentially other. What makes this so untenable is the lack of distinction between ethnicity and religion.
Article: When religion and culture part ways (by Oliver Roy)
