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reasonable to believe followers should behave in similar manner. Cartoon controversy wound down, business lost millions editors had been fired and Jailed” artists were hiding, government officials stepped down. Danish didnot reprint but across the country reprinted images of Piss Christ-Andres scrrano's photograph of crucifix with Jesus christ submerged in glass of artist own urine on ground that it was art. One of the Danish Cartoon was with bomb in mohammed, turban was ludicrous, it made in sense to declare Mohammed a terrorist likely interpretation based on belief that terrorism derived spiritual ammunition from Islam. Doug Marlette drew cartoon showing in his own words a man in Middle Eastern apparel at the wheel of Ryder truck hauling a nuclear warhead. The caption read what would Mohammed drive?” Muslim believe they are required to carry out a violent holy war. (jihad) against infidels. Problem is not religion but interpreters of religious books & religious extremists which seperates constructive religious impulses to destructive one who are corrupting the religion too. Problem is not religion but fellow religions. Europe was torn apart by an unending series of brutal and cruel wars based on small differences. Bosnia; Middle East, South Asia are samples of religions continuing potential to inspire blood-shed. Religion itself is source of problem in religion people fall prey to extremism.
In middle east where Islam's strict medivial Sharia law reduces everyday lice to one repression, cruelty & paralysing fear at best and at worst, terrorism, honour killing and death by stoning for relatively minor offences and sometimes for no offences surrogated with stiflingly rigid and intolerant religious code. When social structure becomes weak. bad elements encouraged and protected by selfish leaders, Fanatics create fanatics and terrorism thrives. Religious life of extremists cry oui for psychological analysis. Osama Bin Laden was loved and respected in Jalalabadm Afghanistan because in their view he was combating injustice and wanted to liberate islamic lands. So riches & money was put at service of community and spent on other extremists in every faith arrived at their fanatism through combination of personal pecularities and religious ideology.
Destructive faith is not only religious ideology but role of faith played in individuals. Psychological make-up. Hitler has hypnotic ability to pronounce a message that people wanted to hear his message wa: partly political & partly psychological. Laden's ideology, common to muslim to muslim population drawn to extremism by idiosyncrasies by their psychic make upextremism prime personalities common among many fanatics. Extremists are unwilling to compromise with those who disagree & for them any inhuman means is justified. Too much freedon can be psychologically threatening to some.
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