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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]It is important to understand the meaning of words and be a critical listener. Explaining behavior is different from justifying it. If someone intentionally spills coffee on me  and I kill them in response, the explanation for what I did was that I was defying their actions, and wanted to show them I had a bigger ego than they did and will not allow anyone to mistreat me . But that, of course, isn't a justification for what I did, because,  even though what they did was wrong, my reaction to it is out of proportion.

Now back to the Paris attack, it is disingenuous to state that I put all the blame on the French government and policies. That would be ridiculous, you can go back to my posts and clearly see how I not only blamed the attackers but stated that we have a lot of young Muslims who are so angry and full of hate that they have lost their sense of humanity. I will focus on the Muslim explanation by popular demand  :lol:

-In the Muslim community, we have uneducated, self-taught followers who believe they are qualified to give religious verdicts and  that they can make someone else's life permissible, without ever actually having studied with a single scholar. Googling fatwas and quoting random incidents from the Seerah is enough these days to become a faqih.

-The terms jihad (struggle) and Shaheed ( martyr) have been hijacked by extremist movements who might be motivated by legitimate concerns, but express that motivation in un-Islamic manners, and cause destruction & bloodshed in the name of religion whilst overlooking their own responsibilities towards their communities.

-Young overzealous youth, angered by the transgressions of Western powers, are often swayed by fancy rhetoric and enticing slogans into entering a military conflict that eventually ends up harming the very people they claim to protect

-The Muslim world lacks strong leaders and strong institutions. They are mostly led by dictators who oppress their own people and are in bed with the western world.

- You have a country like Saudi Arabia that is exporting more extremism than oil. Political identity around grievances are then used and exploited in regions  with huge crisis of identity problems.

- Lots of extremists that inspire people through the web, we need to counter that narrative

- Attacks like the ones in Paris will  provoke the rise of  nationalist policies and parties in the West, and this is what extremists want, so they can draw a further wedge and recruit more people. Their main goal is to divide communities so they can polarize and radicalize.

For anyone interested, I highly recommend this talk by Dr.Yasir Qadhi about the causes and roots of Muslim Fundamentalism .In this  interview, he gets into the mindset of radical "Islamic" movements and unveils the psychological framework that leads to terrorism. He academically analyses the three primary combinations that must exist before radicalism is resorted to and talks about how to fight these ideologies. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gGYVsbRvDQ [/youtube][/quote]

Thanks for that. We're just leaving for lunch with the i laws or I'd say more. But thanks.[/quote]

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