Why are muslems and funtamentalists so close to eachother?

Question

In their wiew of their own sacred scriptures?

Like it's a book written by God directly and dumped down from the sky?

btw I'm christian.
and I believe the bible to be God's revelation but I don't need to deny historic facts.

Answer 1

Fundamentalists are alike regardless of the camps they fight from. They advocate for a return to their respective historical roots assuming that any past time is golden age and thus denying history its role in shaping reality. They also claim the the divine can and does speak directly, without mediatiors, and it's their understanding that only those who are willing to cast their humanity aside are apt to listen the unpolluted voice of God.
It strikes me as funny that the Bible states exactly the opposite: reality is being build throrughout history (so the best time is not the past but the present), God is mediated reality (doesn't dictate) and the more God's people engage their worlds the closer they are to God.

Answer 2

Its not just a book written, its a set of code of ethis, or a mission statement that a group of people agree on. And when a group of people do indeeed agree on something they get closer together.

Here is a silly example, like boy scouts , they have a mission they feel they are like a team and they do work hard together. But a religion like islam or groups of christianity even jews or any fundamantalists is far more spiritual that boy scouts and its rooted deep inside their soul. For what I know some of these religions discipline life, thinking and give an inner balance for true believers.

So its down to human interaction and pscychology i believe

Answer 3

Fundementalism is a description of the level of literal belief in a religious system. All Muslims aren't "like that" even if the bias from television would have you believe otherwise.

I think the real question would be why can't the extremists see how much more alike than different they are.
It's simple and sad. Their belief that what they are doing is right is so strong that they are blind to anything else.

Answer 4

Moslem is the religion and fundamentalist is the far, extreme individual interpretation of the religion. Fundamentalism is also referred to as extremism, conservatism, orthodoxy, etc. Any ideology/belief/faith, be it religious or political, has its far right wing, if you will. Just like Moslems, Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism, countries' politics in US, UK, other Europeans, Arabs, Asians, Latin Americas, etc all have their conservative wing. It's a long list to detail each one's specific fundamentalist movement, but one can think of examples. Some stood up at different point in history. It unfortunately so happens that it's nowadays the turn of Moslem fundamentalism. So to say that Moslems and fundamentalists are so close to each other is only fractionally okay but not entirely.

And in their view of their own sacred scriptures, that's where the different individual approach/interpretation of the religion, in this case the Holy scripture, comes into play. Just one example amid thousands of verses in the Holy scripture says "..and God created the universe with His hands.." the fundamentalists may interpret as God has hands, others God has hands but it in no way bears humanly hand caracteristics and the rest interpret it as a divine symbolization that God created the universe with His might. There's no telling in the Moslem Holy scripture that thy shalt kill the infideles, even in the verses on jihad. As a matter of fact, there are verses revealing that it's none of our business even if our own flesh and blood immediate relative(s) doesn't/don't share the faith. It's further revealed that it's none of man's business to judge others for only God is the Oft-knowing and the Sovereign of the aftermath judgement day. So clearly, the Wahabi fundamentalist movement, mostly holding in Saudi Arabia (not to be confused with the Saudi government), the terrorists and all interpret the verses on jihad to the extreme, too literally, to the point that they deviate and are actually not properly implementing the teaching in its entirety to include other verses. Another example out of thousand verses "..thy shalt not eat swain.." but by all mean, if you're sick hungry and pork is the only thing available to you, another verse overrules it, eat it and it doesn't incur a wrongdoing. A conservative man in Saudi Arabia was brushing his teeth at a Mosque's wash area with coconut fibers that reeked to others next to him. When asked why, he replied "I follow the example set by our Prophet". Well helloo.. if toothbrush had been invented then, even the Prophet would've used a tootbrush. A wise quote from the Pakistani President Musharraf "..modern jihad is that against poverty.."

Also just like Christianity, Catholicism, Judaism, countries' politics in US, UK, other Europeans, Arabs, Asians, Latin Americas, Moslems also have their moderate, modern followers that actually represent the vast, silent majority as opposed to the media bias. Moslems in Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Yemen etc are mostly moderate. But they lack exposure by biased media. Most importantly, Pakistan, being a Moslem state, had a woman Prime Minister, Beanzir Bhutto and Indonesia, being world's largest Moslem country, had a woman President, Megawati Soekarnoputri. Think of a world's superpower, the advocate of spreading democracy and the free world, has it even ever had a woman President in its proud, long standing history?

Answer 5

Christians believe THE BIBLE to be God's word. I imagine muslims think the same of their holy book.

Answer 6

Delusion loves company

Answer 7

You cannot lump all people into one category. All Muslims are not fundamentalists and all Christians are not fundamentalists. Each has their share of fundamentalists.