The divine wish

As a society we have become terrified of evoking any sort of meaningful discussion, other than what goes on in our official media when it comes to questioning the Muslim society about its opinion regarding the atrocities, carried out in the name of Islam with a call to Jihadi (a holy war) from the extreme Sunni wing purportedly, on behalf of Allah.

A man in the UK is facing arrest because he approached a woman in Muslim dress and asked her what her opinion was on the recent bombings in Brussels. The suggestion is that he committed  a racially construed attack on the woman.

There is no doubt that the authorities wish to control and keep a lid on any backlash which may arise in the population at large but to arrest someone who is asking the question which is on all of our lips "what do ordinary Muslims think about the suicide bombing and more to the point why doesn't it receive a more vocal response from the Muslim society as a whole".

There are the carefully phrased responses from the Muslim leadership and the PR machine within the country but there is no discernible outpouring of rage or concern.

Obviously a society can not be tarred with the same brush when a tiny segment do such horrific things but one has the suspicion that whist being appalled by the brutality they also wonder if this isn't a justified comeuppance on the non Muslim society who are seen as contaminated by the bombing and the killing of their Muslim brothers and sisters, which continues to this day in parts of the Middle East.

Does the sight of Donald Trump and his outlandish taunts, his school yard rants have anything to do with it. Is the American neo-colonialism and their 'regime change' policies have anything to do with the reticence of the average Muslim to stand out and declare their abhorrence of what goes on in the name of their faith.

It's suggested that none of this has anything to do with Muslim belief, yet the dying wish on all the suicide bombers lips is the call to Allah and what they do, is in his name. To disconnect the faith from the extremists, who quote the Koran and confirm their frenzy in its teachings, needs a thorough explanation and not only to us 'non Muslims' but to the young disenchanted young Muslims who are growing up in what are virtually ghetto societies, closed off from outside involvement where the only influence can come from the Muslim society itself.

Any group who purport that they are different have a responsibility to teach 'assimilation' with the majority, in so far as it doesn't clash with their religious belief. But of course there's the rub, since in all the books on religious faith, the Bible, the Old Testament and the Koran, there are passages which could be construed, one way or the other and if either interpretation is blessed with Gods Divine Grace, then "who ever", "what  ever" is sanctified, and no amount of rational argument will have any effect unless the society in which the person resides makes clear the intent, the purpose, the perspective and the ancestry of the writing of the Divine wish.