The sun that always shines.
The spring water
gives me a
particular feeling,
the purple appearance
in the heart of a
beautiful landscape;
and always outshines,
like a dream in
the breath of
a sadness.
Francesco Sinibaldi
The only acceptable version of Islam is Canadianised, Americanised, Britainised, etc: diluted, a little more balanced, less misogynistic and backward etc.
Unfortunately the Middle East is not like that, and Muslims revere and idolise it. So what we have is a constant tension between the modern, liberal, free speech egalitarian world with its plural people and ideologies mixing and congregating, and divided Muslims looking towards the mono cultural and intolerant, backward Middle East and its 1400 AD ideas.
Terrorism is actually a clear and vehement return to the ideological and historic roots of this religion which was aggressive, supremacist, expansionist and violent just as Hitler was. Mohammed once massacred an entire Jewish village of 800 people, and took a sex slave called Rayhana. He personally beheaded a large number of "Infidel".
There's no getting away from these facts, they are heinously unique to Islam, and until this is addressed Islam will always be problematic.
speaking of terrorism, from the pulpit of crusader popes to the bible thumping missionaries of gold hungry colonialists, there is hardly a piece of plantation or village left of the old world that has not been spilled of indigenous or muslim blood. so to those who feel holier than thou, pointing at slavery, jewish pogroms and mysogynism, the dark ages of europe is an open book for everything including more except the moorish spain which held a torch of real co-habitation that dwarfs the achievement of the so called western civilization. infact islam had reached parts of russia, spain and some might even say to north america atleast 300 years before the church, making it a western religion in its own right. so those who have problems accepting islam in the west, they either suffer from big time ADHD or are in pathetic denial of their own development. for more information on a thriving islam of the west check http://www.suhaibwebb.com
