>>Let us look at the Chechens. They want their independence. (Not "opportunity" (aka money) as you suggest. If they had their own country, do you think they would continue to attack the Russians, whose army, by the way, has been occupying their land for a while now?<<
Very good point. You are surely correct about the Chechens.
Still, without indicting the entire Muslim religion, which I do not mean to do, you cannot discount the dangers of religious fundamentalism, which seem to be fueling violence in Nigeria (Miss World Riots), in Kashmir, India proper, Pakistan (bombings of churches or church-goers), and the Phillipines.
If there is a growing Pan-Muslim nationalism at work, in which followers are exhorted to fight perceived enemies, how do we address this, if the root source is an indoctrinated belief that the "enemy" represents a hostile and evil culture that must be opposed, and if that "hostile and evil culture" is the western lifestyle and non-Islamic belief systems? |
