Dear friends:
For quite a few years your humble reporter has been ruminating on just what the hell is the matter with Islam that produces so many fundamentalists, zealots, provocateurs and just plain nut cases..... and after all this time I think I have come up with the answer!
There is nothing wrong with Islam that is out of the ordinary for any religious movement or belief system!
It's the society they are a part of that's the problem.
Let me give you an example:
The United states of America is rooted in a "wild west" mentality that affects everything they do from an expansionist, puritan perspective..... and this gives them such a rough and tumble (yet at the same time a rigid) society that is more individualistic and conservative than most other first world countries.
Islam, by the same token, is rooted in the Middle East and has remained stuck in the twelfth, or even the seventh century for a great many of its adherents because this is what their society seems to be most comfortable with. Their intransigence with regard to change is what keeps them apart from western influence and gives us a society that is reactionary and inflexible!
As you can see in both these instances it is the rigidity of these respective populations that keeps them stuck in a sort of weird time-warp that is not only in no hurry to change, but questions the need for change in the first place!
For quite a few years your humble reporter has been ruminating on just what the hell is the matter with Islam that produces so many fundamentalists, zealots, provocateurs and just plain nut cases..... and after all this time I think I have come up with the answer!
There is nothing wrong with Islam that is out of the ordinary for any religious movement or belief system!
It's the society they are a part of that's the problem.
Let me give you an example:
The United states of America is rooted in a "wild west" mentality that affects everything they do from an expansionist, puritan perspective..... and this gives them such a rough and tumble (yet at the same time a rigid) society that is more individualistic and conservative than most other first world countries.
Islam, by the same token, is rooted in the Middle East and has remained stuck in the twelfth, or even the seventh century for a great many of its adherents because this is what their society seems to be most comfortable with. Their intransigence with regard to change is what keeps them apart from western influence and gives us a society that is reactionary and inflexible!
As you can see in both these instances it is the rigidity of these respective populations that keeps them stuck in a sort of weird time-warp that is not only in no hurry to change, but questions the need for change in the first place!
The way I see it anyway!
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