RE: Is the ''Only a minority of Muslims are radical'' true?
June 11, 2015 at 11:38 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2015 at 11:42 pm by Regina.)
Although I probably have said it myself at some point on here before, I actually don't like this use of the term "radical" to describe right-wing Muslims. "Radical" isn't necessarily a bad thing, if you look at the real definition of "radical", it's like the total opposite of what fundamental Islam is.
I think a minority are extremists. However, a significantly higher proportion of people who identify as "Muslim" probably do have more conservative attitudes than, say, the average Christian. It's not that the religions are very different, in traditional values they're actually almost identical, I just think secularism in the West has paved the way for more liberal attitudes to flourish, even among most Christians who still practice.
I think a minority are extremists. However, a significantly higher proportion of people who identify as "Muslim" probably do have more conservative attitudes than, say, the average Christian. It's not that the religions are very different, in traditional values they're actually almost identical, I just think secularism in the West has paved the way for more liberal attitudes to flourish, even among most Christians who still practice.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
