echo_dancer, a word of knowledge, do you think that world war one was about religion? What about world war 2? War happens wether due to issues of relgion or issues of non religion. Plus some wars are actaully good wars. Like the war to remove evil eg what happened in Europe to defeat Hitler. The War the europeans waged against him was a good war and had they not done it things would be even worse than they currently are today.

Also some people exploit religion for thier own purposes, look at Bush for instance (making Islam look evil for his own interests). So one cant blame religion if its being exploited by someone. And actually religion teaches goodness and all wars that it may do should ...

echo_dancer, a word of knowledge, do you think that world war one was about religion? What about world war 2? War happens wether due to issues of relgion or issues of non religion. Plus some wars are actaully good wars. Like the war to remove evil eg what happened in Europe to defeat Hitler. The War the europeans waged against him was a good war and had they not done it things would be even worse than they currently are today.

Also some people exploit religion for thier own purposes, look at Bush for instance (making Islam look evil for his own interests). So one cant blame religion if its being exploited by someone. And actually religion teaches goodness and all wars that it may do should be good wars , not bad wars. ie Wars to remove evil and bring justice and peace to humanity.

I hope you can understand.
Regards, ali

Darwinism and Terrorism

As we have so far seen, Darwinism is at the root of various ideologies of violence that spelled disaster to mankind in the 20thcentury. However, as well as these ideologies, Darwinism also defines an 'ethical understanding' and 'method' that could influence various world views. The fundamental concept behind this understanding and method is 'fighting those who are not one of us'.

We can explain this in the following way: There are different beliefs, worldviews and philosophies in the world. These can look at each other in one of two ways:

1) They can respect the existence of those who are not one of them and try to establish dialogue with them, employing a humane m...

Darwinism and Terrorism

As we have so far seen, Darwinism is at the root of various ideologies of violence that spelled disaster to mankind in the 20thcentury. However, as well as these ideologies, Darwinism also defines an 'ethical understanding' and 'method' that could influence various world views. The fundamental concept behind this understanding and method is 'fighting those who are not one of us'.

We can explain this in the following way: There are different beliefs, worldviews and philosophies in the world. These can look at each other in one of two ways:

1) They can respect the existence of those who are not one of them and try to establish dialogue with them, employing a humane method.

2) They can choose to fight others, and to try to secure an advantage by damaging them, in other words, behave like a wild animal.

The horror we call terrorism is nothing other than a statement of the second view.

The faith in the legitimacy of terror comes from materialist ideologies, not Theistic faiths.

When we consider the difference between these two approaches, we can see that the idea of "man as a fighting animal" which Darwinism has subconsciously imposed on people is particularly influential. Individuals and groups who choose the way of conflict may never have heard of Darwinism and the principles of that ideology. But in the final analysis, they agree with a view whose philosophical basis rests on Darwinism. What leads them to believe in the rightness of violence is such Darwinism-based slogans as;

'In this world, only the strong survive',
'Big fish swallow the little ones',
'War is a virtue',
and 'Man advances by waging war'.

Take Darwinism away, and these are nothing but empty slogans.

Actually, when Darwinism is taken away, no philosophy of 'conflict' remains. The three monotheistic religions that most people in the world believe in, Islam, Christianity and Judaism, all oppose violence. All three religions wish to bring peace and harmony to the world, a

In the Name of Allah the Most Kind the Most Merciful

Hello Bookchick, thankyou for your comment. The issue today is who is the REAL Terrorist ? Is it the US government and UK government who attack humanity in order to further their national interests eg control of oil, or to safeguard their world power, or is it those who retaliate against these countries in order to stop them inflicting more terrorism on their people.

For those who do retaliatory terrorism, for them the war on terror means war on those who do initiatory terrorism for oil and such like issues. For the one who does initiatory terrorism like the US , (and read Noam Chomsky if you don’t believe what I am saying), the war on ...

In the Name of Allah the Most Kind the Most Merciful

Hello Bookchick, thankyou for your comment. The issue today is who is the REAL Terrorist ? Is it the US government and UK government who attack humanity in order to further their national interests eg control of oil, or to safeguard their world power, or is it those who retaliate against these countries in order to stop them inflicting more terrorism on their people.

For those who do retaliatory terrorism, for them the war on terror means war on those who do initiatory terrorism for oil and such like issues. For the one who does initiatory terrorism like the US , (and read Noam Chomsky if you don’t believe what I am saying), the war on terror is just a lie to cover up the evil they are doing on humanity. The term is meant solely for public consumption to deceive their own people that its not their government that is perpetrating evil and terrorism on humanity but its those who retaliate against it.

And today the middle-east is the region that is full of oil and is thus a strategic region to control and its inhabitants are mainly Muslim, so the US and UK governments invent that Islam is a threat to humanity and so must be targeted. Whereas infact it is the US government (as well as UK) that is a threat to humanity as it cares only for its material interests and nothing about the thousands or millions of children it kills to achieve those interests. When Islam spread over humanity it didn’t spread evil or terrorism. Instead it spread peace and civilisation and science world wide. To the extent that the many Jews who were persecuted in Europe fled to the Islamic State for safety, and to the extent where Europeans would send their sons to learn in Islamic universities such as existed in Spain because they were so advanced in their knowledge and science. And those on whom Islam spread actually want to revive and re-establish Islam on the earth because they want it. So how can Islam be viewed as an Evil way of lif