Terry Jones Plans Anti Islam Protest

[The_Player]

Re: Terry Jones Plans Anti Islam Protest

@Namlas

So what is your explanation then? How do these reasons fail to offer a full explanation or insight, in your opinion? What mental process did you go through to reach such a conclusion? Can you give an example where these reason are not-applicable?

There is strife in other countries as well, and religion typically plays a secondary role. Since strife is very common in 2011 among most of the world and Muslims are 1/5 of the world’s population, you will indeed see Muslims in these conflicts. It seems to me you would rather blame the religion and its followers (while brushing aside legitimate causes such as imperialism, occupations, sanctions, etc.) because you think that they are inherently evil due to your blind hatred for Muslims and Islam.

Firstly, I neither have blind hatred towards Islam/Muslims and neither am I blaming the Muslims entirely. However, I find your blaming the west/America for everything ridiculous and a function of your victim syndrome.

I am no expert, but I would suggest you read the book **Clash of Civilizations **by Harvard Prof. Samuel Huntington which offers possible reasons for the strife.

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Acrobat/Huntington_Clash.pdf

To summarize, there are 3 reasons mentioned in the book -

1. One is the fact that Islam, as a religion, started out violently - not only with Muhammad himself, but also in the following decades as Islam spread by war throughout the Middle East.
2. A second issue is the so-called “indigestibility” of Islam and Muslims. According to Huntington, this describes the observation that Muslims do not easily assimilate to host cultures when new rulers arrive (for example, with colonization), nor do non-Muslims easily assimilate to a culture under Islamic control.
3. A final factor is demographic. In recent decades there has been a population explosion in Muslim countries, leading to a huge increase in unemployed males between the ages of fifteen and thirty. Sociologists in the United States know that this group creates the most social disruption and causes the most crime - and that in a relatively wealthy and stable society.
   In Muslim countries, however, we find little such wealth and stability, except perhaps among a few of the political elites. Thus, the disruption potential of that group of males is much greater.