Monotheistic Religion-Islam

The dire and unprecedented situation that resides to name calling, reviling, and stereotyping that our theological contemporaries (those that reside or originate from the Middle East), originate from an area of the world that is based on terrorism and unshared values and ideals is ludicrous. There is this misconception that this terrorism originated from Islam rather than historical events that increased and accelerated this terrorism. The failure to understand this sentiment, implies this nonsensical and uninformed understanding of history in that region of the world. It causes the uneducated and uninformed to condemn this monotheistic religion- Islam in its entirety. Hence, one can begin to understand this misconception on the origins of terrorism,

Rather, this terrorism was a product that was pushed and accelerated through significant historical events using the religion of Islam as a tool to “perpetuate power” . These historical events that accelerated terrorism, include that of the United States intervention in the 1980’s, and propagandist ideologies like that of Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism. Thus, before attempting to analyze and understand the influences behind these events, one must first understand how this religion was used to perpetuate power, by approaching to understand religion in a more philosophical manner.

Religion is “reflected in many forms of social organizations and human activities” . It is an identity statement, one that allows individuals to validate and express their identity; “seventy percent of all Americans call themselves Christian” . It is very unlikely that those seventy percent in their entirety to be of those that go to Church or read the bible on a daily basis. Thus, they are validating their individuality, their nationality, beliefs, world views, ethnicity, politics, etc, and have used