CanoGeel
"Show respect to all people, but grovel to none"
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It is very interesting. I believe that many people are inherently authoritarian. 20-30% of people have this personality. Combining this with Islam which let’s be honest has had a violent history and a lack of pushback from a strong state, I hazard a guess that it is inevitable.How does religion turn people into those in shabaab, what part did they not understand. Me as a muslim now is not even 1% close to their extremism and way of islam
I always wondered
It is very interesting. I believe that many people are inherently authoritarian. 20-30% of people have this personality. Combining this with Islam which let’s be honest has had a violent history and a lack of pushback from a strong state, I hazard a guess that it is inevitable.
I always laugh when they make a terrorist video with a arab song on the background
Combining this with Islam which let’s be honest has had a violent history
Islam had slavery and colonisation toIslam's history is nowhere near as violent as Christianity.
Slavery, Colonisation, the Crusades, thousands upon thousands of Jewish pogroms, the discovery of the New World (and its subsequent violent conquests), Spanish Inquisition, Apartheid etc.
All examples off the top of my head of people attempting to either push Christianity by violence or use Christianity to justify violence. That does not mean Christianity is a violent religion but it does not mean it is a more peaceful religion than Islam, which happens to get more criticism for historical violence.
I’m not disagreeing. An unfathomable amount of blood has also been spilt by Christian fundamentalism.Islam's history is nowhere near as violent as Christianity.
Most of them are actually poor and uneducated, it's actually a dangerous thing to not educate the public.How does religion turn people into those in shabaab, what part did they not understand. Me as a muslim now is not even 1% close to their extremism and way of islam
I always wondered
Islam had slavery and colonisation to
I’m not disagreeing. An unfathomable amount of blood has also been spilt by Christian fundamentalism.
The point however was about how and why Shabaab ideology resonate so much with these Somalis to this day. At the end of the day AS finds their justification from Islam. Whether we agree or not with their interpretation/implementation,