That's because, through a proper education and real world experience, I know what I am talking about:
- The vast majority of Muslims in the MENA/South Asia are not religious.
- The vast majority of those who are religious, do not subscribe to the Islamist world view.
- Between
82% and 97% of the victims of Islam
ist terrorism are other Muslims.
And spouting off a Qur'anic verse from a source written in the seventh century doesn't cut it. Even the Islamists, like the Islamic Modernists, interpret and pervert those verses. Both did it in their individual philosophies when they created their movements in order to try to make the verses relevant in the modern age, because they understood that Muslims needed to revive Islam in order to escape Western colonialism and imperialism. All you are doing is selectively pushing certain Islamist interpretations as defining Islam.
As I have made clear in the past, even Qutb, the author of what is considered to be the terrorist handbook (1964's Milestones), would not recognize today's decrepit Islamists and what they have done. He would have even disagreed with Faraj, who assassinated Sadat, because that act was not in keeping with his intent on "removing" the false leaders and it did great harm to the Islamist philosophy. Al-Banna definitely would not recognize today's mess because his interpretations of Qur'anic verses involved a celebration of the sciences, philosophy, and modernism. His idea of a "true" Islamic state was not to turn the clock back to barbarism. And al-Banna had a relationship with Sadat during WWII. So, by spouting off certain Qur'anic verses, as interpreted by today's Islamist extremists, you have chosen the extreme minority as a suitable representation of the vast whole.
By defaulting to what today's Islamists do as merely Islamic, you insult an entire region of people who want nothing to do with Islamists. I have told you all of this before. You just refuse to get it because it doesn't jive with the stereotypes that you have grown to prefer. You dislike the few, therefore you denigrate all.
