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Perhaps this will help prevent Christian extremists from misusing the Bible for anti-Muslim sentiment (Islamophobia) and violence against Muslims and Muslim nations. Excerpted from Brian McLaren's -"Dealing with Conflict in the Biblical Narrative".
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Overview & Key Concepts
What is White Supremacy?
White supremacy or white supremacism is the racist belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant
over them. White supremacy has roots in scientific racism, with movements such as neo-Nazism, white supremacists typically oppose members of other races, as well as Jews. The term is also typically used to describe a political ideology that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical, or institutional domination by white people (as evidenced in the Atlantic slave trade, apartheid in South Africa etc.
What is a Genocide?
Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people. People are defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group in whole or in part. The
hybrid word "genocide" is a combination of the Greek word genos ("race, people") and the Latin suffix -cide ("act of killing"). The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group". The Political Instability Task Force estimated that, between 1956 and 2016, a total of forty-three genocides took place, causing the death of about 50 million people. The UNHCR estimated that a further 50 million had been displaced by such episodes of violence up to 2008.
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The Holocaust is a specific instance of genocide. It refers specifically to the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
What is Violence?
Violence in many forms is preventable. There is a strong relationship between levels of violence and modifiable factors such as concentrated poverty
income and gender inequality, the harmful use of alcohol, and the absence of safe, stable, and nurturing relationships between children and parents. Strategies addressing the underlying causes of violence can be effective in preventing violence. Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation".
What is Racism?
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other
people because they are of a different race or ethnicity. Modern variants of racism are often based in social perceptions of biological differences between peoples. These views can take the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems in which different races are ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities.
Frequently Asked Questions
1.Does Islam promote extremism, terrorism and violence?
Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. This was the message of all the prophets and it is from God's way
2.Does the Quran encourage violence against the disbelievers (non-Muslims)?
The historical context is that this Quran verse was revealed at the Battle of Badr, a battle in which the pagans of Makkah traveled over 200 miles to destroy the Muslims of Madinah. The Pagans of Makkah had an army of about 1000 while the Muslims were only 300 followers. Muhammad and his followers had suffered severe persecutions and torture for 13 years in the city of Makkah. Having fled from Makkah to the safety of Madinah, they found that they were once again threatened.
It is obvious from historical and textual context therefore that this Quran verse does not promote the killing of innocents.
3.Does Islam encourage violence?
No. Islam forbids violence. It allows for defensive war where if Muslims are attacked first, then they are allowed to fight back.
4.Does the Quran promote violence?
This verse was revealed by God to Muhammad at a time when Muslims were being attacked by the enemy from Makkah on a regular basis. The verse only allows for self-defence fighting against those who 'withdraw not from you nor give you (guarantees) of peace besides restraining their hands'. So the guarantee of a peace treaty or agreement is required for the war and fighting to completely stop.
5.Is their violence in the Quran?
This verse is applicable to the Muslims during the time of Muhammad – historical Muslims – who were terrified of fighting in the battles to defend themselves because they were out numbered.
God bolstered their bravery by assuring them that they would be rewarded.
6.Is the Bible a peaceful scripture with no violence?
No. In the Bible, Moses orders the killing of all men
