Red
Well-Known Member
Yes, the overall silence on the part of sane Muslims has always seemed troubling to me. I was surprised, in fact, when I read about all that cooperation in NJ, as one example. I was encouraged that American authorities are depending on American Muslim tips, and that that is the opposite of the situation in Europe. We integrate, whereas it seems in Europe Muslim enclaves are set up as if they were independent Muslim communities with no interest in integrating into the European culture where they have settled.
In the area where the conflict is the hottest, the Middle East, it seems like one of the biggest problem is the animosity between Sunni and Shia. Radicals of either persuasion are anti-Western, and at the same time fighting each other. Over a breach between them dating back to Mohammed himself and the nature of the succession after his death. I can't keep track of who's who. But I think it seems like at the state level, the states support whatever branch dominates their own nations and governments, so they avoid criticizing their own, regardless of any blood shed by their own. I think this must very much help create the failure of a unified response by sane Muslims to the madness being unleashed. In other words, there is no unified Islam. The same can be said of Christianity with it's many branches, but at least the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic, while competing in control of sites holy to the faith in Israel, are not actually hateful of each other. Whereas this Sunni/Shia split, which, again, makes my head spin in trying to understand it, must play a role in preventing a more unified stand in which the leaders of Islam condemn radicalism in a way that leaves no doubt there is an uppermost level of the faith that speaks out in a way that the world actually hears them and leaves no doubt that they oppose this highjacking of their faith by psychopaths. That response does seem relatively invisible to me.
