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发信人: gemini2012 (双子AB), 信区: USANews
标 题: 大多数穆斯林不是恐怖分子，但大多数恐怖分子是穆斯林
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 5 16:48:02 2016, 美东)
By Michael Brown Published on November 16, 2015
Michael Brown
My tweet simply said, “We know that most Muslims today are not terrorists.
We also know that most terrorists today are Muslims.”
I tweeted this out on Friday night in the midst of the terror attacks in
France, and I didn’t think it would be controversial at all. In fact, it
seemed self-evident. To my genuine surprise, the tweet generated a flood of
negative responses. How dare I make such a statement!
But is it really debatable?
According to Middle Eastern scholar Daniel Pipes, since 9/11, there have
been “27,000 attacks globally connected to Islam,” many of which have
involved Muslims killing Muslims. This number certainly dwarfs all other
terrorist attacks worldwide by non-Islamic groups, reinforcing the simple
message of my tweet.
Yet some called the tweet racist (I didn’t know Islam was a race) while
others challenged the factuality of my statement, as if there were more non-
Muslim terrorists than Muslim terrorists.
When I asked for support of this claim, I was given responses including, “
Westboro Baptist Church,” despite the fact that, as bigoted as these people
are, they don’t murder people and they represent just a handful of
individuals.
Another response was, “Timothy McVeigh,” despite the fact that McVeigh was
not a Christian acting on his faith, and even if he was, how many Timothy
McVeighs have there been in the last 20 years?
And where, pray tell, are the Christian (or other religious) equivalents to
ISIS, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, Al-Shaabab, Hamas, Hezbollah and
other Islamic terrorist groups? And where are the videos of Christian
terrorists beheading their captives in Jesus’ name? And how many Christian
suicide bombers are blowing themselves up in churches? (On a tragically
regular basis, Muslims are doing this in mosques among rival Islamic groups.)
According to analyst and researcher Daniel R. DePetris, the five deadliest
terror groups in the world are all Islamic. Is anyone surprised?
One twitter follower who must not have been watching the news actually
rebuked me for assuming the Paris attacks were related to Islam. This is
willful ignorance.
But worse than willful ignorance is outright denial, specifically, the claim
that these terrorists are not really Muslims and that this is not really
Islam, which is the position firmly embraced by President Obama and Hillary
Clinton. (Note that French leaders were quick to attribute the attacks to “
radical Islam,” retaliating and cracking down accordingly.)
There are simply too many devout Muslims — including theologians and
political leaders — who promote terrorism as a religious act to deny that
this is Islamic. And these theologians and leaders can point to too many
texts within the Quran and Islamic tradition, along with examples from the
life of Muhammad, to say that this is not Islam.
The fact is that Muhammad was first a spiritual leader, then a political
leader, then a military leader and, to contrast the spirit of Christianity
with that of Islam, remember that Jesus was crucified and ordered his
followers not to fight back whereas Muhammad beheaded hundreds of captives.
I’m fully aware that the majority of Muslims are repulsed by today’s
terrorism and that a large number of Islamic theologians and leaders say
that these terrorists are misrepresenting their religion in the ugliest
possible way. In light of this, I always attribute these terrorist acts to
“radical Islam” rather than to “Islam” in general. That’s why I also
tweeted out on Friday night, “Let’s pray for the millions of Muslims who
are repulsed by these acts of terror in the name of their religion. May God
open their hearts!”
Of course, others chastise me for referring to “radical Islam” rather than
“Islam” in general, since, they assert, true Islam is violent Islam while
non-violent Islam is not true Islam, but I believe this can be debated.
During my three years of studying classical Arabic in college and graduate
school, I spent time with a number of very devout Muslims, sometimes reading
Islamic texts with them, and to my knowledge, they would have been appalled
by terrorist acts in the name of their faith, as would multiplied millions
of their colleagues.
At the same time, it is undeniable that Islam has a violent history and that
radical Muslims can point to authoritative texts and historic exemplars to
justify their actions. And it is undeniable that there are multiplied
millions of devout Muslims who are radical and who espouse violent Islam. To
deny this is to stick one’s head in the sand and perhaps, one day in the
future, to lose one’s head.
In short, we can acknowledge that there are millions of peace loving Muslims
while at the same time confronting radical Islam — and I mean confronting
it ideologically and by name, in the radicalized mosques and communities as
well as on the battlefield.
To fail to do so, at this point in history, is inexcusable.
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