polite_gandalf wrote on Oct 13
th, 2015 at 1:51pm:
Hi Lisa, thanks for the question and sorry I didn't respond before.
By 'radicalization ... of our youth', I will assume you are talking about muslims, and not say white kids joining neo-nazis or bikie gangs or triad gangs etc - who then go and murder and rape and trade in drugs to destroy other people's lives. Just so we're clear that
young muslims are not the only youth in society that are choosing a path that leads to murder and suffering.
So of this tiny subset of disaffected youth who decide its appropriate to cause suffering in society, ie muslim radicals...
from my understanding, its orchestrated from overseas in places like Syria and Iraq.
They firstly pick some useful idiots in Australia to "spread the word" as it were amongst potential recruits.
Importantly, it seems its not the case that these "vulnerable" youths are being targeted and "groomed" like pedophile rings groom children (as is commonly portrayed), its very much a case of these youths actively seeking extremist groups from the get-go.
They are not innocent victims in this, they know what they are doing.
So, young [and not so young] moslems who become 'radicalised', have been led astray, away from
the proper path of their faith, by persons of bad influence [whom they have come into contact with] ?
And you would argue that the 'radicalisation' of young moslems [
as far as you are concerned], has got nothing at all to do with young [and not so young] moslems being influenced by the ideas of moslem supremacism [an aim to be achieved through warfare], being promoted from factors within ISLAM, such as;
1/
Allah,
2/
ISLAM,
3/
the behaviour and urgings attributed to Mohammed [within ISLAM's foundation religious texts],the influence and urgings we see within the content of,
4/
the Koran,5/
the Hadith.????
e.g.
A religious text like
the Koran [its contents, which urges Jihad in Allah's cause], would have a 'mute' influence upon your average moslem who attends mosque ?
That is your argument ?
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"....Lo! Allah is an enemy to those who reject Faith."
Koran 2.98
"....those who reject Allah have no protector."
Koran 47.008
v. 8-11
"
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission,
and feel themselves subdued. "
Koran 9.29
"There is for you an excellent example (to follow) in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people: "We are clear of you and of whatever ye worship besides Allah: we have rejected you, and there has arisen, between us and you,
enmity and hatred for ever,- unless ye believe in Allah and Him alone"....."
Koran 60:4
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"Fighting [against disbelievers] is prescribed for you, and [if] ye dislike it.....Allah knoweth, and ye know not."
Koran 2.216
"O ye who believe!
Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him)."
Koran 9.123
"Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise):
they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain:...."
Koran 9.111