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Originally Posted by DAII
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I can't disagree with the violence of what happened several thousand years ago, but I ask, are modern day Muslims taking the words of Muhommad (sp?) out of context, an expcerpt from the link you just posted:
El-Ansary says that in the past 30 years, there's been a perfect storm that has created a violent strain of Islam. The first is political: frustration at Western intervention in the Muslim world. The second is intellectual: the rise of Wahhabi Islam, a more fundamentalist interpretation of Islam subscribed to by Osama bin Laden. El-Ansary says fundamentalists have distorted Islam for political purposes.
"Basically what they do is they take verses out of context and then use that to justify these egregious actions," he says.
El-Ansary says we are seeing more religious violence from Muslims now because the Islamic world is far more religious than is the West. Still, Jenkins says Judeo-Christian cultures shouldn't be smug. The Bible has plenty of violence.
Are Muslims following the Quaran as they are suppose too, or are they taking it out of context? I guess it really doesn't matter what we say on this forum or anywhere else. There are folks that have lost loved ones and friends This Week due to violent Islamic regimes. Muslims who enforce their religious views on those around them.
I do pray for True Peace.
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