RE: Moderate Islam?
September 10, 2010 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2010 at 10:10 pm by annatar.)
Well thats really an interesting question.
I believe in order to understand why christians are tolerant now, you should ask yourself when did christians started to became more tolerant?
What has changed? Bible is still the same bible.
It's started with renaissance, when common people became wealthier. They started to be intrested in arts and music.
They started to see how beatiful the world is. They didn't needed an afterlife 'so badly' anymore.
Its not about religion. its about economical and intellectual level of the people who believe in it. I believe this is the main reason of islamic violance..
You can see this in Turkey very clearly.
People who live in wealthy cities like istanbul, ankara, or izmir are more tolerant than people who live in poor cities like sivas or konya..
Most of the people in Turkey usually doesn't care about religion. In fact they dont even read the quran. A recent survey shows that %95 of turkish muslims haven't read quran in their life..
It has two different effects,
poor and ignorant people firmly hold on to islam and follow the people whom they trust without questioning.
wealthy and intellectual people believe that islam is a peaceful religion and that terrorists and extremists are misunderstanding islam. These people are what we call Light muslims.. And can be a role model for a moderate islam...
Of course its not a good thing. But It's at least better than psycho muslims who would kill infidels without hesitation. And its equal to today's christians.. So I believe when their economical status improved, muslims will be more tolerant.
Among Muslim countries, Turkey is more tolerant than most. Its becouse We are not ruled by sharia and We have a secular constitution. But even here religious people sometimes do really horrible stuff.
Sivas massacre was one of the shameful and horrid example of their intolerance and violence..
Shamefully Islamic movement seems to increased their effectiveness nowadays.Especially by the acts of our conservative goverment. But I believe(and I hope
) we will get rid of those bigots in the next elections..
I believe in order to understand why christians are tolerant now, you should ask yourself when did christians started to became more tolerant?
What has changed? Bible is still the same bible.
It's started with renaissance, when common people became wealthier. They started to be intrested in arts and music.
They started to see how beatiful the world is. They didn't needed an afterlife 'so badly' anymore.
Its not about religion. its about economical and intellectual level of the people who believe in it. I believe this is the main reason of islamic violance..
You can see this in Turkey very clearly.
People who live in wealthy cities like istanbul, ankara, or izmir are more tolerant than people who live in poor cities like sivas or konya..
Most of the people in Turkey usually doesn't care about religion. In fact they dont even read the quran. A recent survey shows that %95 of turkish muslims haven't read quran in their life..
It has two different effects,
poor and ignorant people firmly hold on to islam and follow the people whom they trust without questioning.
wealthy and intellectual people believe that islam is a peaceful religion and that terrorists and extremists are misunderstanding islam. These people are what we call Light muslims.. And can be a role model for a moderate islam...
Of course its not a good thing. But It's at least better than psycho muslims who would kill infidels without hesitation. And its equal to today's christians.. So I believe when their economical status improved, muslims will be more tolerant.
Among Muslim countries, Turkey is more tolerant than most. Its becouse We are not ruled by sharia and We have a secular constitution. But even here religious people sometimes do really horrible stuff.
Sivas massacre was one of the shameful and horrid example of their intolerance and violence..
Shamefully Islamic movement seems to increased their effectiveness nowadays.Especially by the acts of our conservative goverment. But I believe(and I hope
) we will get rid of those bigots in the next elections..Quote:Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Gandalf The Gray.
