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Is Islam Incompatible with Western Values?

WRITTEN BY GÖNENÇ ÜNALDI, GUEST CONTRIBUTOR |30 JANUARY 2013

After September 11, 2001 attacks, the Western world have encountered a new challenge: a conflict more difficult to overcome than fighting against Communism, and an ideology, in the minds of many people, more dangerous than Soviet Russia. There was a new threat in the world, and it was called "Islam."Actually Islam has existed for about 1400 years, covering a geography that includes the Middle East, Central Asia, Northern Africa, and most parts of Southeast Asia. Mulsim immigrants were always entering the West, but they had their own way of living, and many who did not integrate well were isolated from society.

After September 11th, Westerners have started to suspect the motives and intentions of these generally silent and introverted people. Were they harmless people just trying to survive in a different society, or were they a new threat for peace, tolerance, democracy, and human rights in the Western hemisphere?

Soon, politicians and the media focused on this issue, and many reached the conclusion that “Islam was not only a religion, but it is also an ideology aimed to spread around the world, penetrate in every society, and transform them into a new form which was not democratic and peaceful”.

The overall opinion of an average Westerner about Islam is mostly negative. The religion is seen as an anti-democratic, oppressive, primitive kind of belief system, which gives no room to personal freedoms and human rights. Unfortunately, even though the sources of information are not very reliable compared to most in our era, this image, somehow, is believed to reflect the general truth about Islam and its political motivations.

Because of this negative image, many countries have established new prohibitions on fundamentalist versions of Islam. For example in April 2011, France banned wearing theburqa (a black cloth covering a woman's whole body) in the streets. Even though this ban is itself anti-democratic, it is hard to deny that most women wear burqas not because they want to, but because they are told to do by their husbands, fathers, or brothers. This is a both psychological and physical pressure that exists throughout a woman's entire life.....

More here: https://www.diplomaticourier.com/news/opinion/1333

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Image They are so misunderstood. Stop the Islamophobia.

Does this mean a certain closet Islamist head of state can get his right hand chopped off for stealing his election?

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Comrade Frum,

Wherever you are from... We Are Watching You!


The ideology religion is totally normalfor the 7th Century. The incapacity of the Western intelligentsia's mind to wrap itself around an outlook not born of the Enlightenment or collegia's social science and humanities departments is, ironically, kind of chauvinistic or 'ugly American'. Their hubris doesn't allow them to even suspect that there are alternative ways of looking at reality. By embracing diversity they homogenize their outlook and that narrows our improvisation in dealing with a changing environment. It is our cultural outlook and blindness that will bury us.

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Personally, I find the worship of camel pee a charming diversion from the hubbub of 21st century life. The "so called" Enlightenment merely led Europe out of the Dark Ages. Big deal.

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Fortunately, we have The One (PBUH)[Poopnot be upon Him] to assure that the question is turned into a statement and posed properly: Western "values" <spit> are incompatible with Islam. Once we get rid of, or substantially obfuscate these "values," Islam will be sucked into the empty spaces in The People's™ heads like air into a vacuum. Insha'Allah! Next Tuesday!

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Muslims invented optics, what else do you want. And the marching band, they invented the marching band.

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How about the Hula-Hoop? Huh? Who invented THAT! Optics! Ha!

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Hookah smells like my grandfather's jacket.
ThePeoplesComrade wrote:
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Muslims invented optics, what else do you want. And the marching band, they invented the marching band.


 
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