All ‘terror’ comes ‘rooted in Islam’, or at least, so we are told. It arrives wrapped in words like ‘Allah Akbar’ and ‘Kafir’, framed as the sworn enemy of civilisation and humanity
This article was written by Arab Christian Myriam Charabaty, tagged in the post, for UK Column. It is a very important report that I cannot recommend highly enough. We have all been lied to by Western regimes, for far too long. Now Trump is putting Nigeria on his list of targets because “genocide of Christians” - another narrative that needs serious investigation - who is behind Boko Haram (Al Qaeda in Nigeria) and why is the world silent about the massacres of Shia Muslims in Nigeria?
Islam Is Terrorism, and Christianity Must Launch a New Crusade?
For decades, this has been the story that has been echoed and repeated across Western media, and over time, it appears that it has achieved its goal and has hardened into an unquestionable truth.
Initially, the ideal of a dichotomy defining Christianity as this superior ‘civilised’ faith, in opposition to the ‘heretic’ Islamic faith of ‘terrorism’ which does not tolerate the ‘other’, was founded on Eurocentric notions of identity aimed at othering a world that was, in fact, more advanced in its structure and wealthier in its social fabric and resources than Europe and the modern-day ‘West’. This world was, and remains, the Arab world; the very world where Christ lived, preached, and delivered the ultimate miracle of sacrifice and resurrection in service of humanity and of the oppressed.
This view had even framed the Crusades in an oversimplified manner as a religious ‘clash of civilisations’ between Christianity and Islam, something that is being capitalised on in our media today.
The argument was put forward in a past era by Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, which aimed to entrench a Eurocentric and Orientalist perception of the East and Arabs.
Still, the truth is much more complex, and that vision distorts not only history, but also disregards accounts of local Arab Christians who lived in the region at the time. (more...)
Islam Is Not the Enemy of Christianity: An Arab Christian Perspective
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