The argument about whether violence is part of Islam, or is an aberration, has raged ever since the attacks on innocent bystanders in the name of Islam started claiming lives, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
It reached a summit when nearly 3,000 innocent people were killed in the 9/11 attacks on the United States – were the hijackers and terrorists representing Islam, or were they rogues from the religion?
It’s just gotten worse in recent years, with the violent Muslim attacks on innocents in Orlando, in San Bernardino, and others.
Now, a prominent writer in Al-Arabiya says the Muslim world has not done enough to remove the radicals, the extremists, the violence.
Get the rest of this report, and more, at Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Hussein Shobokshi, a businessman and prominent columnist, has written in Saudi Gazette, “The measures applied for eliminating extremism and the results achieved are not very convincing.”
“As long as the complete cleansing is not done, there will be no end to the series of slaughter,” he wrote. “Even during this festive season (the just-finished Ramadan) there is fear and tears in the eyes of every Muslim witnessing the scenes of murder, massacre and mayhem.”
Shobokshi now runs a current affairs program called Al-Takreer on Al-Arabiya and was named in 1995 as one of the “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” at the World Economic Forum. He’s a graduate of the University of Tulsa.
He compares the extremists in Islam to elements of Nazism.
“When the Nazis fell and Adolf Hitler was defeated at the end of World War II, Germany revolted against all remnants of the regime and decided to move away from the dark chapter with an exhaustive and in-depth review of how the Nazi ideology came into existence in the country,” he wrote.
“This is exactly the dilemma facing the Islamic world today. Emperors of extremism and militancy have used several pages of books over the years to justify, legitimize and harden their attitudes and their actions and therefore their crimes,” he wrote.
Get the rest of this report, and more, at Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
