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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaPo: It Is Time For Muslims To Begin a Deep Self-Examination
Though their influence might still be minimal, a few journalists are speaking out. In the Arabic newspaper Al-Mada, Iraqi writer Adnan Hussein offered a suggestion: We must overhaul the educational system. In a piece published just two days after the Paris attacks on Nov. 13, he said that from elementary school through university, our young people are taught sometimes with a stick that Islam is not only great, but also better than other religions, and that those who are not like us belong in hell. What has emerged, he wrote, is a savage brand of faith that stirs up decapitation, spills blood, instigates plunder and rape. As for the real Islam, he lamented: It has no place in our lives, or in the best of cases, it has a barely audible voice that almost nobody hears. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/it-is-time-for-muslims-to-begin-a-deep-self-examination/2015/12/30/24320e5e-adb2-11e5-b820-eea4d64be2a1_story.html
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)for xtians too. Same reasons apply.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)6chars
(3,967 posts)mwrguy
(3,245 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Our oh-so-christian nation could stand some self-examination.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)we'd have to take their cell phones away for a while so they can pay attention.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)then I think the very question of whether muslims need to deeply self-examine themselves will become a moot question.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)While i understand closeup's overall point, i think it's a comparison of whales to blackberries.
That's why i can't agree because it has nothing to do with the point of this thread./
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)No prosperous society can arise from broken monarchies governing a population of religious extremists.
romanic
(2,841 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Answer that and act on that and all this navel-gazing will be rendered irrelevant.