To find out who is wrong and who is right, the following questions have to be answered:• Who are the killers – radicalized Muslims who has acted against the moral prescripts of their own religion of Islam, or they are normal Quran-guided Muslims?• What is the moving spiritual force behind the killings – the religion of the killers or some their ideology that has nothing to do with their religion?• Do the killers act in good faith as their religion or ideology demands it, or they represent a small devilish minority that always exists in any religion and ideology?What I have studied and experienced all my life, together with many other Jews and Christians of various spiritual streams – from orthodoxy to atheism, let me answer these questions in the following way.Who are the killers – radicalized Muslims who has acted against the moral prescripts of their own religion of Islam, or they are normal Quran-guided Muslims?The killers are not radicalized Muslims – they are normal Quran-guided Muslims.Here is how Quran guides the Muslims:Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. - Sura 2:98On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. - Sura 2:161Slay them wherever ye find them and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. – Sura 2:191Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it. – Sura 2:216What is the moving spiritual force behind the killings – the religion of the killers or some their ideology that has nothing to do with their religion?The moving spiritual force is religion, not ideology. The Merriam-Webster defines ideology as a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture and a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture.What is the source of the “systematic body of concepts about human life”? It is the religion, and it is religion everywhere – in Judaism, in Christianity and in Islam. For the last thirteen centuries the religion of Islam had created its own “systematic body of concepts about human life” quoted in the above from Quran.Do the killers act as their religion or ideology demands it or they represent a small devilish minority that always exists in any religion and ideology?Every religion has good and bad disciples and the entire religion - be it Islam, Christianity or Judaism – can be judged by assessing how the true spiritual leaders of a religion respond to actions of its bad (devilish) disciples.While the Jewish and Christian leaders condemn any acts of violence committed by their bad disciples against the Muslims, no one – literally no one – of the leading Islamic authorities condemn any acts of Islamic terrorism. If it is so, the answer is clear – the Islamic terrorist acts are committed since their religion/ideology demands it.Vatican and Jerusalem are not silent – they condemn any acts of Jewish and Christian acts of violence. Mecca is silent on Islamic terrorism and silent approvingly.
Radicalized? Not at all – European Muslims live normal “radical” Quran-guided life
To find out who is wrong and who is right, the following questions have to be answered:• Who are the killers – radicalized Muslims who has acted against the moral prescripts of their own religion of Islam, or they are normal Quran-guided Muslims?• What is the moving spiritual force behind the killings – the religion of the killers or some their ideology that has nothing to do with their religion?• Do the killers act in good faith as their religion or ideology demands it, or they represent a small devilish minority that always exists in any religion and ideology?What I have studied and experienced all my life, together with many other Jews and Christians of various spiritual streams – from orthodoxy to atheism, let me answer these questions in the following way.Who are the killers – radicalized Muslims who has acted against the moral prescripts of their own religion of Islam, or they are normal Quran-guided Muslims?The killers are not radicalized Muslims – they are normal Quran-guided Muslims.Here is how Quran guides the Muslims:Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. - Sura 2:98On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. - Sura 2:161Slay them wherever ye find them and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. – Sura 2:191Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it. – Sura 2:216What is the moving spiritual force behind the killings – the religion of the killers or some their ideology that has nothing to do with their religion?The moving spiritual force is religion, not ideology. The Merriam-Webster defines ideology as a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture and a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture.What is the source of the “systematic body of concepts about human life”? It is the religion, and it is religion everywhere – in Judaism, in Christianity and in Islam. For the last thirteen centuries the religion of Islam had created its own “systematic body of concepts about human life” quoted in the above from Quran.Do the killers act as their religion or ideology demands it or they represent a small devilish minority that always exists in any religion and ideology?Every religion has good and bad disciples and the entire religion - be it Islam, Christianity or Judaism – can be judged by assessing how the true spiritual leaders of a religion respond to actions of its bad (devilish) disciples.While the Jewish and Christian leaders condemn any acts of violence committed by their bad disciples against the Muslims, no one – literally no one – of the leading Islamic authorities condemn any acts of Islamic terrorism. If it is so, the answer is clear – the Islamic terrorist acts are committed since their religion/ideology demands it.Vatican and Jerusalem are not silent – they condemn any acts of Jewish and Christian acts of violence. Mecca is silent on Islamic terrorism and silent approvingly.