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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
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I think this sums it up right here:
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“Some people who feel crushed or ignored will go toward extremism, and they use religion because that is what they have at hand,” said Said Ferjani, an official of Tunisia’s mainstream Islamist party, Ennahda, speaking about the broader phenomenon of violence in the name of Islam. “If you are attacked and you have a fork in your hand, you will fight back with a fork.”
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The problem is islam in the same sense that the problem facing Palestinians is the jews, or the problem facing publishers in Texas is the capital "C" christians
who sit in their living rooms, read manuscripts and count the number of times someone refers to Charles Darwin.
It all comes down to people who are alienated. They have no way they can see of getting out of an untenable situation. What do we do when we are faced with the untenable? We turn to whatever purports to answer the unanswerable.
