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Originally Posted by Russ
Oh absolutely but surely that still begs the question of why said dictator/community leader was attracted to Islam in the first place. There are bad apples as leaders in all faiths (as well as in those who don’t have any faith) but they don’t appear to use other religions/beliefs to attract the nutters.
With white supremacists the clue is in the name, they want to be supreme over those they see as “lesser” so at least there a kind of ‘logic’ you can follow to explain (not excuse) their evil acts.
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Said community leaders are usually already Muslims. They use what they know, they don’t go looking for a novel ideology. The religion forms part of the cultural identity which they claim is being attacked/threatened and which they are standing up for.
At other points in history, and at other times, Christianity has been used in the same way. Hinduism is used as a nationalist cause in India. Even Budddhism has occasionally been used as a rallying point for nationalist violence.
Every religion contains within it enough teaching about the imperative of moral purity to allow someone so minded to twist it into an excuse for violent resistance or crusade.