The West's Biggest Misconception About Islam

[Msunbird02]

I would disagree with your view. Fundamentalism is very much a part of Islam as is wearing a hijab / burqa / niqab b/c these issues are actually commanded in the Qur'an. There was no dress code until Muhammad ordered it and it's all there in that book.

[theminkyminky]

I very much like this video and i would like to emphasise the the fact that fundamentalism is not part of Islam and that wearing certain type of cloths (like burka or women cover) is nothing to do with Islam. Burka was the way the arab women dress before Islam and in fact Islam came to allow women to go out with faces, hand and feet showing. Unfortunately, some non-arab muslims took the way the Arab dress and grow their beards as Islamic way of life when it was only the Arabs tradition.

Ahmed.

[nubian377]

I just think fundamentalism in Islam has always been there. It is only now that things are coming to light because of the kind of society we live in. A society with an exponential growth in information. If we had TVs in the 1400s, i believe the media would still have uncovered even greater forms of Islamic fundamentalism existing then.

[nubian377]

He says fundamentalism in Islam is a more modern concept arising out of colonialism, yet he forgets that in antiquity, Islam had already developed various forms of fundamentalism, which were either supported or enforced by the prophet Muhammad. The wearing of the body covering(bukha) was already a part of Islam. The same goes for the strict interpretation of the sharia, i.e where(in the ahadith) Muhammad asks for an apostate to be killed. Fundamentalism in Islam was always there.

[JonathanStray]

It's not "islam" that's sending out mixed messages. It's media coverage which centers on the bad things and gives a false impression.

[0000peaches]

because islam is sending out mixed messages to the whole world, different dress codes for women, men holding guns in one hand and preying with the other.

violence agaisnt the world that is what islam means to so many.