A Sudani friend said to me about 2 years ago, everywhere in the world where you see a news story about trouble, 95% involves Muslims, he was wrong of course! There are plenty of cases of unspeakable violence in the world each day! What is missing here is maybe that when these things happen elsewhere there is an immediate consensus that what happened was wrong, as shown by media reporting of the common people condemning the acts. This needs to be repeated in the Muslim world. Until the vast majority of Muslims can come together and agree that there is a clear line between acceptable behaviour, whether there might be some legalistic religious justification for such inhuman acts (which God WILL NOT forgive) and clear slaughter of innocents, people will react in fear to any display of Muslim identity.
To imply any moral equivalence between not allowing the construction of a Minaret for your mosque and derailing an express train full of innocents is morally bankrupt.
A Sudani friend said to me about 2 years ago, everywhere in the world where you see a news story about trouble, 95% involves Muslims, he was wrong of course! There are plenty of cases of unspeakable violence in the world each day! What is missing here is maybe that when these things happen elsewhere there is an immediate consensus that what happened was wrong, as shown by media reporting of the common people condemning the acts. This needs to be repeated in the Muslim world. Until the vast majority of Muslims can come together and agree that there is a clear line between acceptable behaviour, whether there might be some legalistic religious justification for such inhuman acts (which God WILL NOT forgive) and clear slaughter of innocents, people will react in fear to any display of Muslim identity.
To imply any moral equivalence between not allowing the construction of a Minaret for your mosque and derailing an express train full of innocents is morally bankrupt.