That's right. The jihad imperative and the example of Islam's founder have little to do with "extremism"--and don't let "Islamophobic" right-wingers tell you otherwise. That's why, writes Shoker, King-like inquiries are not the way to go. Instead, he says,
We need to build a better understanding of “radicalization,” seeing it not as aberrant behavior that automatically spells terrorism, but as a symptomatic stress-response to chronic conditions of deprivation and absence of basic human rights.If that's the case, we could "solve" the jihad problem by urging the stressed out to take up yoga and Pilates and, should that fail, via heavy-duty doses of Valium.
"deprivation and absence of basic human rights."
ReplyDeleteAnd just how would this apply to US or Canadian born islamists that decide to go the jihad route to heaven?
Maj Nutbar from Texas last year is a prime example, he was not deprived of anything, certainly not his basic human rights. He used them to inform his superiors and peers that the US had no right to kill muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was coddled and nurtured, and still turned around and killed.
Isn't it their OWN religious leaders who are denying them basic human rights???!!!! How can this be the fault of "Western Civilization"?
ReplyDeleteIs not the lack of basic human rights to Muslims a direct outcome of THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP?!!!
ReplyDeleteCan you say "chutzpah"?
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