With terror warnings and fear of Muslims apparently on the rise again across the West, what will it take to turn the situation around? According to columnist Patrik Etschmayer of Switzerland’s News, Muslims need to experience an ‘enlightenment’ like the West had 300 years ago, so moderates can come out of the closet. Unfortunately, Etschmayer writes that there is so sign of such an event on the horizon. Meanwhile in the United States, ‘a counter-enlightenment by fundamentalist Christians seems to have been established under the ‘Tea-Party’ name.
For Switzerland’s News, Patrik Etschmayer writes in part:
The wedge driven between Islam and the rest of the world by these attacks and plans not only hardens the revulsion toward Islam, but very successfully quiets more moderate and reformist Muslim voices who would like to push religion out of everyday life, but who are made to feel almost like traitors.
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In a globalized world, this problem will persist as long as Islam fails to experience its own enlightenment, as occurred in the West 300 years ago – an enlightenment that by no means was without pain or bloodshed. Unfortunately, no such movement is anywhere to be seen. Meanwhile in the U.S., a counter-enlightenment by fundamentalist Christians seems to have been established under the “Tea-Party” name.Terror, fear and insecurity are all murderers of free thought, friends of suppression, promoters of hate, and gravediggers of freedom. The medieval thinking of Islamists and fundamentalists of all stripes has the chief goal of leading the world back to a place where the light of knowledge is snuffed out and only one book is allowed to exist.
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