Is Islam Responsible for the Charlie Hebdo Murders?

[Izdaari]

Yes, it does often seem to come down to the highlighted point: Extremism within Islam is not as small as it is within Christianity (although given where Christianity is expanding and declining that may change back to historical norms more comparable to modern Islam).

Increasingly though I think that calling for an Islamic "reformation" is not the appropriate language and rather like the suggestion made by some other users here, that Islamic regions and cultures and the like are simply in need of enlightenment. The Protestant Reformation, after all, gave us extremists who wanted to purify the faith by purging it of heretical elements, both within Protestantism and the Counter-Reformation, not so far a cry from the Sunni extremists calling for sectarianism and jihad.

Yes, that's a fair point. Reformation may be the wrong word, but it does need to change and come into the modern world.

 

[Deadtroopers]

Yes, that's a fair point. Reformation may be the wrong word, but it does need to change and come into the modern world.

I have pointed out elsewhere the similarities between the Englsh and Iranian Revolutions, and the Commonwealth and the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is looking very like a re-run of Western Christendom's Reformation and Wars of Religion. They were a neccessary evil without which there coud have been no Enlightenment. The various Orthodox Christian Churches didn't go through such and you can see the difference that made in the Balkans and Russia. It is why Putin doesn't grok Democracy and Human Rights. It is not in his marrow.

 

[sampuna]

If you are a buddhist it is the same why would you be attached to this at all?

for discussion sake