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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
it's more mainstream than you might think
maybe not among american muslims, but certainly on a global scale. i mean look at the laws in saudi arabia for starters.
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That's more cultural, really. What about Indonesia? They have the highest number of Muslims out of any country in the world and they don't have Shariah implanted within their laws except for cases regarding marriage among Muslims (these religious juries can't judge non-Muslims in these cases). That's not to mention the mass amount of sects within Islam itself or even within the Sunni, Shia, or Sufi, many of which have conflicting viewpoints on how to determine which fatwas should be accepted. However, pretty much across the board, these sects denounce the killing of innocent people and some more specifically denounce terrorism.
Would you happen to have any stats for the globalism that you describe? 1.2 billion people is quite a massive group to generalize.
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can you be more specific? which islamic extremists in particular are you saying are more politically motivated, and to what end?
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Well, 9/11 comes to mind.