Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism by Mohammad Hassan Khalil

Author:Mohammad Hassan Khalil [Khalil, Mohammad Hassan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-21T08:00:00+00:00

Jihad and the “Clash”

Remarkably, Harris affirms what bin Laden had asserted about the West: “We are at war with Islam. It may not serve our immediate foreign policy objectives for our political leaders to openly acknowledge this fact, but it is unambiguously so.”16 (In his later work Islam and the Future of Tolerance, Harris notes that he is “careful to say that we are not at war with all [or even most] Muslims”; his “problem” is with their religion.)17 Along these lines, Harris defends Samuel Huntington’s well-known “clash of civilizations” thesis.18 And, partly owing to his own particular reading of Islamic sources, Harris places much of the blame for this clash on Islam itself:

It is not merely that we are at war with an otherwise peaceful religion that has been “hijacked” by extremists. We are at war with precisely the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran, and further elaborated in the literature of the hadith, which recounts the sayings and actions of the Prophet.19

Without faith, most Muslim grievances against the West would be impossible even to formulate, much less avenge.20

Nothing explains the actions of Muslim extremists, and the widespread tolerance of their behavior in the Muslim world, better than the tenets of Islam.21

Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.22

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