Re: Reza Aslan was wrong on many fronts as well…interesting read
No … take out the supply chain from the source - Saudis are not at the beginning of this chain that you have so artfully shown … there are entities that come before them too … Saudi support to extreme groups is another symptom to the problem.
Nature has a way to counter-balance evil … remove that evil then the counter-balance will have to go back too … We don’t even have full control over ourselves - what worth is there in looking internally?
By doing so we are being walked down the path of putting ourselves in to a position that will position us as a buffer between the external evil and the evil on the doorsteps … It is better for us to step away and become better people. Unify - In order to gain strength we need to unify … we cannot allow ourselves to be split up further. Pointing fingers internally will have the effect of more fault lines forming, it will further weaken us.
In what you have described above - who is benefiting the most? Then you will see whose interest this situation is in … and think if we try to replace the Saudis - who will we put in - in their place? Will we be allowed to replace the Saudis? Will the Saudis take that move lying down? Or is that a recipe for further instability?
So you are quite welcome to look internally - but why should we - neither are we responsible for the war nor are the extremists going to listen to our ideology - even if we did give a fatwa of total pacifism - who is going to listen to such voices? They don’t follow us … they make up their own interpretations … looking internally is just a guilt trip … the act is being done to demonise Islam for the purpose of anti-dawah … There is another ‘problem’ and that is the appeal of Islam - people are turning to Islam in the West while existing Muslim populated areas are in an unholy war … This call to look internally is the Western response to slow down the Islamic conversion … the threat of Islam is not on the military level - it is on the heart and faith level … if we become better Muslims then the appeal of Islam will increase … people will see the value of it … I feel the best way to struggle against evil is to show how - “good” we can be … looking internally on others is really just a distraction. Looking internally on ourselves is the way … but don’t abandon Islam - that would be the wrong move … we must become more religious, more merciful more compassionate … as we say are the Attributes of Allah (SWT) in the basmillah.