Anthony Cox
The media and
the police commonly describes Muslim perpetrators of violence as disturbed or
otherwise mentally unsound. This is
done to prevent a connection with Islam, to expedite the myth that Islam is a
peaceful religion and, as I described in part 2, to prevent any backlash
against Muslims.
But is Muslim
violence/terrorism a product of insanity or a fundamental ideological
difference between the West and Islam?
Islamic
advocates claim to love death more than non-Muslims love life but
eschatological ideologies have existed before. And many ideologies have
sacrifice at their centre. These characteristics therefore do mean the Muslim
killer is mad even if they kill themselves.
In Islam, it
is not how one lives one’s life that guarantees spiritual salvation, but how
one dies. It is