There is NO such thing as an Islamic Fundamentalist.
There are NO Extremist Muslims.
There are only devout and less devout Muslims.
And according to Islam the non-devout are Muslims in name only!
I've said this many times and the reaction is all too often the same... I'm not being tolerant, or I'm being prejudiced or I must not understand Islam, or I was just with a radical group etc.
It is NOT respectful of Islam to teach that it is something it is not!
It is NOT respectful of Islam to deny that Muslim doctrine clearly means what it says.
An example:
My Nicene Christian friends here's a question for you. Many people, including Jews and Muslims, are deeply offended by your Doctrine of the Holy Trinity (for those unfamiliar with this essential Christian doctrine it holds that the One God exist in three eternally distinct, co-equal forms as Father, Son and Holy Ghost).
Were I presenting traditional Christianity (i.e. Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, Evangelical, Pentecostal etc) to non-Christians would it be OK for me to deny that the Church teaches this in order to keep the peace? Would you approve of my converting someone to Christianity while assuring them that Christians don't believe in the Trinity? Don't believe that Jesus was God Incarnate? Of course not! There is a word for that: Heresy! In olden times the Church would have put me to death for teaching this (its called Arianism by the way)!
Same here!
Most people in the West knew NOTHING about Islam before 9-11 and most still know next to nothing about this, the world's 2nd largest and by far fasting growing religion. It is imperative that we have accurate knowledge!
Islam is more than a religion (deen).
It is a political system (ummah), a legal (sharia) and economic system ( al ajr, al-fard al-kifa'I etc.) and more. The deen is only one part of the Islamic world view.
If we hope to survive in the world now that Islam is reawakening it is vital that we properly understand it. The following video is a tiny step in that direction. The video quality of this Fox News feed is not very good but it is short and accurate:
How Islam Distorts history: Muslims basically claim that there was no Middle Eastern culture before the time of Muhammad (SAW) and that since he was, they say, illiterate his revelation of al Qur'an had to have come directly from God. This intellectual takes odds with this assumption.The YouTube page for this video has a lot of good history and links: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=m64tVi_rrLo&feature=related
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