State and attitude of certain people to blame for radicalisation

We have seen the behaviour of the Western people going more and more away from the Judeo Christian values. Ethics of all sort are not any more important for lots of inhabitants of crowded areas where not everybody finds work and/or gets respected for whom and what he is.

In Great Britain almost three quarters of Muslims polled said they believe the “values of British society” are compatible with those of their religion, one in seven said they were not.Abotu the action of certain Muslims they do have comprehension for them disagreeing with the evolution of the British society. But Four in 10 British Muslims believe that police and MI5 are partly responsible for the radicalization of young people who support extremists, a survey commissioned by Sky News, has found.

Sky News said the survey is the first of its kind, setting out to determine what Muslims and non-Muslims think about controversial issues relating to radicalization, security and prejudice.

Police escort an Islamist demonstrator marching to protest outside the US embassy in London Photo: CARL COURT/AFP

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>  MI5 and police partly to blame for radicalisation – say four in 10 British Muslims

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Preceding: Wrong ideas about religious terrorism

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Please do find additional reading:

1.  Of old and new ideas to sustain power and to feel good by loving to be connected and worship something
2. Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
3. Atheists, deists, and sleepers
4. Being Religious and Spiritual 2 Religiosity and spiritual life
5. Being Religious and Spiritual 6 Romantici, utopists and transcendentalists
6. Epicurus’ Problem of Evil
7. Economics and Degradation
8. Evil Never Ceases
9. Caricaturing and disapproving sceptics, religious critics and figured out ethics
10. Subcutaneous power for humanity 5 Loneliness, Virtual and real friends
11. A world with or without religion
12. Being Charlie 1, Being Charlie 2, Being Charlie 3, Being Charlie 4, Being Charlie 5, Being Charlie 6,Being Charlie 7, Being Charlie 8, Being Charlie 9, Being Charlie 10, Being Charlie 11
13. It’s beautiful to watch the spread of #JeSuisCharlie across the world,
14. Where do we stand in the backdrop of Charlie Hebdo Massacre ?,
15. Charlie Hebdo, offensive satire and why ‘Freedom of Speech’ needs more discussion
16. Faith because of the questions
17. Religion, fundamentalism and murder
18. Religion…..why the competition?
19. Shariah and child abuse – Is there a connection?
20. Why is it that Christians don’t understand Muslims and Muslims do not understand Christians?
21. Apartheid or Apartness #1 Suppression and Apartness
22. Leaving the Old World to find better pastures
23. Built on or Belonging to Jewish tradition #2 Roots of Jewishness
24. Built on or Belonging to Jewish tradition #3 Of the earth or of God
25. Collision course of socialist and capitalist worlds
26. Robertson: God says U.S. will accept socialism
27. Christian fundamentalism as dangerous as Muslim fundamentalism
28. The imaginational war against Christmas
29. Autumn traditions for 2014 – 4 Blasphemy and ridiculing faith in God
30. Still Hope though Power generating long train of abuses
31. Europe and much-vaunted bastions of multiculturalism becoming No God Zones
32. 112314 – A Peculiar People
33. Maker of most popular weapon asks for repentance
34. Science, belief, denial and visibility 2
35. Science, 2013 word of the year, and Scepticism
36. 2013 Lifestyle, religiously and spiritualy
37. 2014 Religion
38. Not many coming out with their community name
39. Truth, doubt or blindness
40. A Church without Faith!
41. Inequality, Injustice, Sustainability and the Free World Charter
42. Re-Creating Community
43. Daniel Guérin: Three Problems of the Revolution (1958)
44. The trigger of Aurora shooting
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Faith antithesis of rationality

03.365 (02.08.2009) Faith (Photo credit: hannahclark)

People may find it not important how 'the belief' is first acquired.

Many Christians may be persuaded by arguments of some theological writers or some popular figures like C. S. Lewis, or in certain circles much spoken off people like William Lane Craig, or Alvin Plantinga.

The problem for someone first persuaded by these conjurers of religious apologetics arises when they become so convinced that they stop using reason and turn to faith as the final arbiter of what they believe.

Some people may go one way, than an other way and never become sure what to believe or having always doubts. Others may be strongly convinced of certain believes and would like to see others to take over their believes, but this more because than they can be confirmed in their believes.

In the world of so called religious people e can find many sorts adhering many denominations. Sceptics would say that once a person does resort to faith the reasoning capacity becomes limited, because faith is always supposed to override, surmount, be better than reason. Many religions rely on the fact that they have something to offer to the people living in this world. Some religions offer their followers a better life in an other stadium, be it returning again on this earth under an other form or be it going to live in a place called heaven.

You could call 'Faith' the antithesis of rationality, because it demands a believe in things we rationally can't declare. Faith is what you use when you want to believe something, or are otherwise driven to hold a belief. For some faith is the position to be in or the action to undertake when there is no reason or evidence to support the belief. And faith can result in belief in spite of counter evidence and reason. This makes it very difficult to get people to see certain things which could be otherwise than they assume.

Many would argue that there is no logical reason for supposing anything exists that we cannot experience directly or test for in some way. As human beings we can look around us and question the existence of all those things we can see, hear and feel. We can not escape being an element in space which has to undergo certain actions in this world. Some happenings we may steer, but others are totally out of our control. By all those things which happen around us we ask many questions. Several people may form good ideas and bring plausible solutions. By those who offer others their ideas, there are some who really want to impose their thinking to others without objection. Many Christian religious people do not want to allow arguments to come their way. Others evoke protest.

By the 41,000 denominations of Christianity in the world, only a few are known by the general public, and most people do assume that the bigger denominations are the only ones which are right. some like the Roman Catholic Church say that because they are the biggest denomination in Christendom this is also a proof that they are the only right Universal Church  of God. In the West it is Catholic tradition which formed the tradition of the people, which is often a mixture of heathen traditions with church teachings. Many people are proud of their Western roots of Judeo Christian values.

But by those who call themselves Christians, what should mean "Followers of Christ Jesus" the respect for other Christians does not show real brotherhood and often makes you even wonder if they are following the same Master Teacher. When we look at forums or look at the reactions on blogs we do find that there’s no shortage of mudslinging across the ideological divides of religion.

When you hear such persons who call them self saved by the Saviour you would think they will be pleased to live according to the teachings of that person and follow him in his ways. When that person in the early years of this common era  spoke about the way how to behave, you would think his followers would follow that advice this wise man gave. Jesus of Nazareth presented  a way of life. He gave us the study of action with respect to the good for humans, which is happiness. So you would think that once people got to study those teachings and came to understand them, they would follow those directions of ethics. You would think those people their eyes would be opened and that they would accept that all people were made in the image of God, so should all have elements of that God in them. You would also think they would become respectful for all those, who are allowed by the creator God to be here on this earth.

Why is it then that so many who call themselves Christian fight against other Christians, and call each other names, children's ears would better not hear?

Would they not prefer to live in a peaceful world? Would they not do everything to get all different people to live together in the best circumstances? Would they not want to become a more excellent, happier human being?

Please do find out more about it in:

1. Caricaturing and disapproving sceptics, religious critics and figured out ethics
2.  Catholicism, Anabaptism and Crisis of Christianity
3. Morality, values and Developing right choices
4. Are religious and secular ethicists climbing the same mountain
5. Being religious has benefits even in this life
6. History of Christianity  
7. Christianity is a love affair

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