Stan Grant, aboriginal man, reporter, journalist, TV presenter, writes his views on how muslims are speaking out against terrorism.
Stan tells us that;
Accusing Muslims of not strongly condemning terrorism is at best a distortion, at worst an outright lie.
He then goes on to explain how Islam is not at fault for Islamic inspired terrorism, apparently it is just a bit of a misunderstanding;
The other claim is that Islam is at the core of the wave of violent extremism, as though somehow the religion is to blame.
These arguments are often built around selective quotes from the Koran with little nuance.
The Koran was delivered over a 20-year period covering times of war and peace.
Its verses address justice and conflict. Koranic scholars are careful to locate the teachings within their correct context.
Extremist groups like IS hijack the teachings to deliver a twisted version of the religion.Thank goodness we have Stan to point out our errors, I look forward to hearing more from him on other crucial faults of our Aussie culture.
I cannot wait to hear how all the problems in Aboriginal culture stems from paternalistic white oppression.
If we look around we can see how historically, all non-white races have always lived in absolute peace and harmony, and everything bad in the world is the fault of the white man.
I am very excited to be able to have such a man of integrity like Stan, teaching us all how we need to view the modern world.
Through aboriginal thinking we might too learn to live with a more fluid understanding of facts, where saying it makes it so, with or without the burden of reality constricting the story.
Here is the link to Stan's whole article.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-09/muslims-speak-out-against-terrorism/860629...