ISLAM AND FUNDAMENTALISM

Islam and Fundamentalism



Islam and Fundamentalism

Introduction

Words of Islamic fundamentalism have become so frequent, the Western media. In order to understand we must first define fundamentalism: A usually religious movement or point of view is characterized by returning to fundamental principles, the rigid adherence to those principles, and often of intolerance of other views and opposition secularism. (Fuller 2003)

It seems to be nothing in common with a return to fundamental principles of Islam, but the rest can be applied to Islamic fundamentalism. In the 1,400 years of Islam, this call Islamic fundamentalism has begun only in the last 150-200 years. Islamic fundamentalism has nothing to do with Islam; it is only a means to use the name of Islam for their programs. (Douglas 2006)

Discussion

Islam has always been a peaceful religion pre-Islamic fundamentalism. Unlike Christianity, Islam has never been a religion that became the sword. Once Islam had conquered a land, do not force people of that land conversion. The people simply see how they lived and decided to convert. That's the way Muhammad did not believe in forcing someone. He preached the religion and, if not the desire to convert, leaves them in peace.

Muhammad converted more people for their actions than their words then, and this is how Muslims in the early spread of Islam. The world's largest Muslim country, Indonesia, was not yet conquered by the Muslims, but rather developed by a few operators. When the Muslims went somewhere, she would take a bubble environment, once people saw and how they lived their lives, they also decided to convert. (Abdelhadi 2006)

To understand Islamic fundamentalism we need to learn about his birth. The movement began in the early 1800s Whabbi with the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. He reasoned that "jihad" can be used against Muslims who do ...