sen-no-sen wrote:...
Daesh is a direct consequence of the interference of the American-Western bloc in the Middle East, if you do not agree bring me reverse proofs ...
The Islamic revolution having allowed the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini was in time a consequence of this interference, too.
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It is the good-will that I read almost everywhere in the thought of the left, but not among those who know this culture well, like Salman Rushdie or Wafa Sultan. Unfortunately to refuse their responsibility to the Moslems by pretending that nothing would be their fault but all that of the West, besides that I see it as a form of racism because supposing that these populations would not be emancipated, does not hold water.
We do not judge history with the criteria grids of the present. At one time colonialism and expansionism was the rule, not only for economic or purely political questions, but also for ideals. The Muslim world also had its expansionist and slavery era until 1968 for Saudi Arabia and 1980 for Mauritania! From these times from which we returned, the West has significant problems only with the Muslims. The Indians, although colonized by the English, do not criticize it today, neither the Chinese, nor the Koreans, nor the Vietnamese whom France has nevertheless occupied.
Why do all these peoples live on good terms with the West today, and not Muslim countries? A question of culture, and necessarily, a question of religion. I do not see an interview with an ordinary Muslim, in Syria for example, which is not punctuated with "God willing". Same even on forum French speakers from Morocco or Algeria. How can we want to do anything, if we constantly rely on external conditions?
Then and above all, when the only thing that would distinguish you from others is your religion, there is a vice: identification with your religion. "Are you insulting my religion? So you insult me so I cut your throat"You can have a religion, without being your religion.
The problem for Muslims is the question: "what could bring us together and which is not religion? Something we would have done and be proud of? Something that would unite us towards a common ideal? Something we would have and the rest of the world would envy and benefit from?"For at least the last five centuries, to the first two questions there are no answers. To the last question, sorry for my sarcastic cynicism, apart from oil, I don't see anything. Their 'identityism' is is religion.
When I see atheists living openly in Muslim countries, or homosexuals, when I see that the laws of Muslim countries will no longer be based on this discrimination between men and women directly extracted from the Koran, when freedom of expression is possible there, when Muslims prefer to build their own countries, live in them rather than squat others, and improve their standard of living, I will no longer oppose Western civilization to them. In the meantime, I defend it, and less against them than against those who spit in the soup.
reminder, the Muslim world is from Morocco to Indonesia (alone this country has 13% of the Muslims in the world).
