Islam

I was watching a YouTube video of a debate at the Oxford Union on the question as to whether Islam is a religion of violence or a religion of peace.
I was amazed by the brilliant skill of those who argued for Islam as a religion of love and peace. One, clearly was an avatar of Islam who had the distinction of having graduated from Oxford.

Before I examine this matter, there is something I must put. It is that in any group, there is a COLLECTIVE WISDOM of the group/community or nation. And in a democracy, if there is the person who will raise the banner of A TRUTH that the COLLECTIVE WISDOM is in accord, it will rise to support it. If there is no such person the COLLECTIVE WISDOM will remain quiescent.

There is a distinction of the wonderful and good things that can abstracted from the pages of the Koran that it has to say about itself and its professions; it is not difficult to aggregate them into a linguistic configuration as the witness that it is a religion of love and peace.

Then there is the distinction of the kind of existential manifestations of Islam and by its implication its metamentative well-springs. It is this that the COLLECTIVE WISDOM of Western Nations retain a very guarded disposition towards.

It is for this that the immigration metrics for Muslims into Western Nations has to be as good as they need to be; it is a fact that one Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of IS (Islamic State) has avowed that he will seed his glorious IS fighters into the the body of Syrian refugees. In this way is their entry into the West.

Currently, Western nations are all too aware of their home grown Islamist fundamentalist extremist Jihadist. They are not well disposed to import more of them into their respective country.

Of all the great religions of the world, none of them had their origins of proselytizing their faith by the sword. Islam is the only one. And it did so at the time when the Roman Empire in its morphed form - the Byzantine Empire was in helpless decay and hapless corruption.