I Am Advocate Of Islam

To start, I would like to point out that Im an atheist so, Im not bias towards one religion or another. I think the problem in the West is thinking of Islam in a solid, completely unified body of ideals. Muslims often disagree with eachother on religion/politics/morality etc, but I think also that there is difficulty in defining what it is within the Muslim faith in regards to the current issues in the world. "Salafism" is the real culprit and I believe it's teachings are the enemy of all the world, to include Muslims.

Muslim culture has given much to the world (modern arithmetic is essentially a Muslim invention), it's too sad to watch the world get torn apart by fascism

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SW-User

Breathingeasy
I'll try to keep this short since you insist on using a term I said is used in a derogatory manner and also an incorrect term. It's not completely synonymous with salafism, but that's a longer story.

Daesh is sometimes referred to as gangster Islam (as an indication of its type) and I don't use the term IS for them because of what it spells out as. That also is an incorrect term or at least not something I or any other Muslim should use for them. It would be like voicing recognition.

You would know better than what you're saying if you had looked into it. What is operation "Northern Thunder" (or Storm, depends on translation)? There is a huge Islamic coalition and Muslim countries are fighting Daesh. Scholars (including and even mainly salafi scholars) write tons of articles about terrorism not being jihad, and refutations of the group and its policies get published in abundance. Not all media are interested, but it's there.

I didn't jump in here to have a debate about them though. I just wanted to mention my disagreement with pointing at salafism as the culprit. That's not about this deviant group at all.