muslim radicalism, linked

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770

While I'm not directly fearful for my life, I do recognize that this is one of the major destabilizing forces at work in the world today. Not surprisingly, it has religion at its core power source, but if you read along you see that it is not the religion itself, but the various individual interpretations of it that are of note. This is a central problem of Islam itself. It was always intended that individuals would interpret the Qo'ran and that a central clergy was not wanted or needed. This is of course ridiculously impractical, as people read certain passages with gusto and others with disdain, leading to conflicting viewpoints of extremism with no margin for discourse. But in any case, those certain passages do allow for the vicious acts of violence in Allah's name. That Islam as a moderating influence has refused to acknowledge this flaw and begin to debate the theological grounds for this abomination only leads to more problems. For whatever Christianity's flaws and errors, and they are many, it has progressed (slowly) through a series of theological self-examinations and recriminations. Islam however is designed to squash debate over itself. Thus the mindset can be recycled back to the early days of jihad and into a system of disorganized chaos (not even directed or purposeful, just mindless slaughter). With the technology available to wipe out a crowded marketplace of people with a single devout person, Islam will have to grow up much, much faster.