RE: Who needs the medressahs when you have the internet
April 20, 2013 at 10:22 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2013 at 10:27 am by Free Thinker.)
(April 20, 2013 at 9:06 am)Dawud Wrote: I would say have faith in humans and most humans who dedicate their lives to studying Islam in the highest of echelons don't support these actions - heck even 'Wahhabi' Saudi are moving towards more rights for women (finally).
And therein lies the greatest weakness of the Muslim world as well. The issue is not whether there are Muslims that scream foul when radicals exist within their own community - but if they do, then they are not loud enough - and are over-looked. The peaceful Muslim even though is a majority, is a largely silent and benign majority as well -- one that is too passive to affect change on a large scale.
Secondly, in a way, Muslims who disassociate themselves and their brand of Islam from that of the perpetrating criminals create just as many divides within society as those who use the terrorist brand of Islam to generalize to the larger Muslim population. The solution does not lie in saying "Oh, they were wrong in their interpretation" - but in creating a system of society within their own communities that do not allow that interpretation to exist in the first place.
The Muslim countries that harbour and allow rabid mullah type clerics to continue to propagate the "evil version of Islam" (even if they are wrong) are part of the problem and not the solution. If the "evil" kind of Muslims are like parasites, or a disease - then why is that parasite / disease allowed to fester and exist and even grow like cancers?
