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xmedleft · 51-55, M
Education is a key. In that part of the world where Islam is dominant it is not always valuable to educate their people fully, as education leads to an ability to question the nature of the world. Their religion is supposed to tell them about the nature of the world -- as all religions definitionally do. However, if you are educated enough to question then that threatens getting your answers from a religion.
Christianity went through this a few times already,
*just ask Galileo.
*And all those "witches" at Salem.
*And people today who are facing more and more pressure for not being "Christian enough".
BUT if you don't educate people enough there is another potential problem; someONE stepping in with answers that SEEM to resemble the dictates of the religion. So there are some clerics and leaders in the Middle East who exploit the low education level for their own extreme ends -- working on the people until it makes sense to believe that the only way to protect your people from a mighty military power that seems to want to wipe them out is to go guerrilla.
Americans, and allies of, are easily led astray, too, on blow-it-up road.
*Ask the 30,000+ Iraqis killed by Americans (et al) who thought the invasion was in retribution for the 3000 killed on Sept. 11 (which Iraq had no hand in at all.)
*Ask the unknown numbers of non-ISIL Syrians killed by Russians and Americans (et al) while hunting for ISIL forces.
*Ask gay Americans killed by members of Westboro Baptist Church.
Christianity went through this a few times already,
*just ask Galileo.
*And all those "witches" at Salem.
*And people today who are facing more and more pressure for not being "Christian enough".
BUT if you don't educate people enough there is another potential problem; someONE stepping in with answers that SEEM to resemble the dictates of the religion. So there are some clerics and leaders in the Middle East who exploit the low education level for their own extreme ends -- working on the people until it makes sense to believe that the only way to protect your people from a mighty military power that seems to want to wipe them out is to go guerrilla.
Americans, and allies of, are easily led astray, too, on blow-it-up road.
*Ask the 30,000+ Iraqis killed by Americans (et al) who thought the invasion was in retribution for the 3000 killed on Sept. 11 (which Iraq had no hand in at all.)
*Ask the unknown numbers of non-ISIL Syrians killed by Russians and Americans (et al) while hunting for ISIL forces.
*Ask gay Americans killed by members of Westboro Baptist Church.