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AlvinofDiaspar
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This is not possible AFAIK for Muslims, either you are devout or you're not Muslim. Thus, North American who are Judeo-Christains can look at the "violence towards your enemy" in the Bible and discount it in today's pluralistic, free and western times, whereas, I'm not convinced that Muslims are permitted this interpreative freedom.
Wow, that's like the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. If there is no "interpretative freedom", as you say, I would imagine all the Muslims in the world regardless of where they live would have been going for a Jihad by now - that is not the case for the majority, and certainly not reflective of the reality of the situation.
There are far more sophisicated arguments regarding the militancy in the Mid-East; for example, the anger is a reflection of the shame/powerlessness brought on by decline since the Ottoman Empire vis-a-vis the rest of Western civilization. Religion is a complicating factor, but to see it as the be all and end all is oversimplfying a complex dynamic.
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