Why muslims cannot separate their religion from politics? the same way church and state goes?

Question

Alot of question why Islam is so tainted with violence and terror? Because for Muslims, their faith is mixed with politics, muslim clerics runs the government, Shariah law are intended for governance, state funds support Mosque activities and religion is funded by government..Can you comment on this?

Answer 1

its called theocracy, where most of Western civ realized that its a horrible,oppressive form of government and have embraced democracy, communism and socialism... and has learned from the mistakes of the past (Catholicism, Christianity, Dark Ages etc) Islam is slow to realize that theocracy is the worst form of government and cannot seem to join the 21st century or even the 16th century. I truly thank God for the founders of the USA who seen far into the future and left behind oppressive monarchies, theocracies and dictatorships. They had the foresight gained from past experiences to include sep of church and state.

Answer 2

Comparatively seaking the Islamic religion is a new religion; even Chritianity, the Catholics and Orthodox, is much older. If you look at the history of Europe and the Catholic Church you see a huge involvement by the Catholic Church in the political side until the late 1700's and to a lesser degree still is in South America. The Crusades were a Catholic Church organized war for political purposes; the Crusaders actually killed more non-Catholic Christians (Othrodox mainly and some smaller groups), destroyed the Christian Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and killed more Jews then they did Moslems, the Hundred Years War (Catholic-Protestant), the Spanish and English conflicts, War of the Roses in England were all based on directions from Catholic Church or people "revolting" against the church. The Islamic religion is at about the same point now that the Cathloic Church was then and hopefully the people and governments will "grow out of it." The second thing is that growth is based on the large mass of the population being better educated and wanting a change; right now the majority of people in many poorer/less developed Islamic countries main education is given by Islamic schools. Indonesia, Egypt, and Turkey as examples all have a majority of the people being Muslim but education is non-secular to a large degree-they all are more democratic and do not have the violence and terror associated with some of "lesser developed" Islamic countries. They are not free of it but then when did Northern Ireland calm down?
The religious right in this country is a little different because it is a political alliance of different religions/faiths with some areas of commonality and not one organized religion; it is a political organization to start with a religious background. I am not defending the religious right in that statement just pointing out a main difference between them and the Islamist extremeist. All religions have rules that govern the conduct of their followers but tolerance is also needed but historically that has not been shown until the religion gets older and mellows.

Answer 3

To be fair, this is a modern concept and the world as a whole is not all that modern. The various Catholic religions as well as their Protestant offshoots had a hard time with this concept too. Roman Catholicism became the state religion of the Western Roman Empire; the Greek Orthodox religion became the state religion of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Bishop of Rome (Pope) basically picked the various rulers after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Queen of England is the Head of the English Catholic Church (Anglicans). Greece has never separated church and state - they are one in the same. The stagnation that occurred under the Caliphate of Baghdad (the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire was the Caliph) left the Muslim world far behind the west (all Muslim countries GNP combined sans Turkey is less then that of Spain). Nation states became a reality in Europe during the Dark Ages 1600 or so years ago. For the Arab world, it only happened after colonialization and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, say for 300 years. They are still in their Dark Ages. I suspect in time, they too will see the folly of state religions.

Answer 4

That is simply not true. There are Islamic nations where religion and politics are separate (Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sudan, Algeria, just to name a few). So it is not correct to generalize all Muslims according to what you think as a whole.

In the period of Medieval Europe, Christianity and politics used to be one and the same. The Pope at the Vatican at that period also held immense political powers, had his armies, and dictated government policies that included the prerogative to declare wars (remember The Crusades, which is basically called a religious war waged by Christians against Muslims, but whose goals and means were all political).

Also remember the Portuguese and Spanish "Conquistadores" from 1500 to 1700, which were Spain and Portugal's quest to colonize much of South America, Mexico, Cuba, and other Latin-American nations and Asia (particularly the Philipines), all in the name of spreading Christianity and Christian culture throughout the world.

It is true that there are still certain Muslim nations (primarily in the Middle East), where religion and politics are one and the same, like Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, for example. These theocratic states or theocratic monarchies held the belief that the "Laws of God" should be the guiding principles in how the government should be run, and that the "Laws of Men" should strictly conform to and should not prevail over the "Laws of God". This may be effective in nations where there is only one religion and therefore only one set of religious laws (so that, these same laws can be adopted to guide the affairs of the government and the people's daily lives). But this is not applicable to nations with multi-diverse religions, such as most of Europe and the United States, because each religion had its own set of religious laws which in many ways are incompatible with the other religions. So in such a situation, it is better for a government to adopt laws that must be independent of any religious laws, and for these laws to be followed by all citizens regardless of their religious beliefs.

Answer 5

People that believe in Islam also believe that their religion gives them the rules on how to live their lives. Since their religion directs their life in every way it only makes sense that their government is run under the same belief system. I think that the Muslims that believe in violence and terror are taking the religion to an extreme. Not all Muslims believe in killing others for their cause.

Answer 6

Islam is a political religion -- a theocracy. It is a 'territorial religion' also, the express purpose of the religion is to make the world a single Islamic nation with NO national boundaries. Islam will achieve this goal and is already permiating every aspect of every country.

I personally believe Islam to be the world's greatest enemy because of this.

Answer 7

Christian church did not do that voluntarlily either, they have been forced to draw out of politics, but still try to do everything to get their agendas into politics, like the christian right in the USA, and the Vatican all over the world.

Answer 8

definite , they're ending touch to one yet another in case you study in religions you will possibly have. observed that the forbidden stuff is the comparable in all of the three faith that's christianity, Islam and Judaism with somewhat difference

Answer 9

Because they dont work and play well with others. This is going in my report too !

Answer 10

This has nothing to do with the military section.