Is Islamic History to Blame for Muslims 'Violent Mentality'?
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Peace Angel
if you want a book specifically on the history of / palestine / israel there is one by ilan halevi. In french the titel is "sous israel la palestine" (under israel - palestine), dont know if it has been translated. May be in english it is "A History of the Jews ,Ancient and Modern" by Ilan Halevi. Am not sure though - can anyone confirm ?
Elke
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Salaam,
I must agree partialy with Boost that I have seen Jankren say this many times that the Muslism were violent and forced Islam upon the world. Well many historians will completely disagree with you on this. Although the Secterian Islam allowed many wrong things, their moral was also very high and developed through the Quran.
I NEVER said that Islam was spread through forced conversions. I only said in the Middle East it was INTRODUCED through conquests.
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It is not so illogical I presumed you meant this. But that is only one sentence in a long post.
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What's to blame for that 'violent mentality'?
Human mentality is a violent mentality.
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I'm saying that its human nature to fight, we would probably have some bigger problems if people didn't fight. History is just one of the causes, sometimes peace does overcome human nature. As does times where logic and reasoning overcome ignorance, but when anger and war piles up and grows it lets itself loose harming many.
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I think it was more imperialism, because all the European nations were doing it. After WW2 we stopped doing it directly.
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'Is Islamic History to Blame for Muslims 'Violent Mentality'?
I think most if not all human history is violent. Christian, American, Indonesian, Chinese history it's all violent. Ancient human history is violent too Aztecs, Romans, its full of many wars, suffering, slavery, blood and gore. What does our human history really say about mankind? Regardless of faith, we are violent creatures. It is also not confined to a specific people and their history, like you seem to be suggesting. Atrocities are committed now and in recent history regardless of how advanced or civilized humanity has become, under many different banners and notions such as Imperialism, Maoism but still all pretty violent.
I've lived in Bosnia, seen Srebrenica. You want to see how violent people are, visit these places where men have killed each other just because they were different, the wrong ethnicity or religion. Visit 9/11 towers, visit Rwandan, Cambodian killing fields. They are all a striking reminder and portrait of mankind, irrespective of beliefs.