tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579189847356587096.post2478812259167331013..comments2024-02-14T11:30:29.227-08:00Comments on Facts For Working People: Who attacked America Mr. O'Malley?Richard Mellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00997976754939725087noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2579189847356587096.post-2415225580188580192015-12-20T19:21:09.627-08:002015-12-20T19:21:09.627-08:00Some Muslims are drawn to Islamic extremist groups...Some Muslims are drawn to Islamic extremist groups because of Western foreign policy/Neo Liberal imperialism in the middle east but Western foreign policy doesnt explain the various expressions of Islamic extremism. The carrying out of terrorist attacks on civilians in the west is just one expression of Islamic extremism. The other kind of Islamic extremism exists withing Islamic communities and the people who suffer as a result are Muslim people within those communities e.g apostasy (the leaving of the faith) as well as criticising Islam will get you put in jail or executed in most majority Muslim countries. The killing of gays, apostates, people having sex outside of marriage, atheists and secularists throughout the Muslim world has nothing to do with western foreign policy but exists because Islam, like Christianity, is fundamentally an authoritarian belief system whose holy texts justify such actions that's why those Muslims that support such practices give scriptural explanations for what they do. The Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Western foreign policy but again were to do with the fact that some Muslims take very much literally the instructions within the Koran and Haddith to kill those who disrespect their faith. It is a very Western centric view that robs Islamic extremists of their agency to suggest everything that they do is because of the westA R Devinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03549502677014211973noreply@blogger.com