Actually facts 2-6.
Moving on from my day 1 post, here are 4 more factoids for day 2.
As always, critique and add your own commentary.
2 - Some time back, Dr. Hussai Askari undertook some fundamentally significant research. His main objective was to discover and describe how concise and accurately the laws and stipulations of Islam were observed in the modern world.
This lead him to publishing his magnum opus, "How Islamic are the Islamic countries", which details his findings on how " Islamic " certain countries are.
In short, the findings showed that fundamentally, the westerns society embodied the Islamic virtues of truth, justice, politics, business, law, society and oppurtunity.
Heading this list was my own native Ireland, followed by Denmark, Singapore, Sweden, Luxembourg and New Zealand, with the UK also making the top ten.
His work was met with much discussion, and further a site was set up and maintained which measure the islamicity of countries
3 - Trump hates Muslims, that much is obvious. He pushes hatred of Muslims through various means, whether by sanctioning Muslim countries, ignoring assaults on Muslims, promoting groups that do harm to Muslims etc etc. We could talk abuot it all day. You may be aware of the bowling green incident, where he claimed that there was a terrorist attack in Sweden, which having turned out to be false, resulted in his spokesperson defending it by claiming there was a terrorist attack in Bowling Green.
This was preceded by the Trump administration releasing a list of 78 terror attacks which he claimed were underreported in the media, all of whom had Muslim-sounding names. The point of this was to show that terrorist attacks involving Muslims were underreported.
This obviously put a lot of people off, and Erin Kearns of the Georgia State University published a paper entitled {"Why Do Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention Than Others?"](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2928138), in order to ascertain the reality.
The paper investigated the years 2011-2015.
For those five years, the researchers found, Muslims carried out only 11 out of the 89 attacks, yet those attacks received 44 percent of the media coverage. (Meanwhile, 18 attacks actually targeted Muslims in America.
The Georgia State researchers conclude: "By covering terrorist attacks by Muslims dramatically more than other incidents, media frame this type of event as more prevalent. Based on these findings, it is no wonder that Americans are so fearful of radical Islamic terrorism. Reality shows, however, that these fears are misplaced."
4 - Sikhs and Islam have a turgid and rough history, highlighted by the genocide of Sikhs by Muslim leaders.
But their history is not all fraught with anger and hate.
As some of you may know, many Sikhs actively feed fasting Muslims, and assist in poverty reduction and anti-hunger campaigns in Muslim countries.
But the actual specific history between the two is a lot more amicable than you might think.
The first Guru, Guru Nanak's, best friend was Bhai Mardana, a Muslim. He accompanied the Guru on his travels across the world.
Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh sacred text and Eternal Guru, contains the works of two Muslim saints: Sheikh Fareed and Bhagat Kabir. Although both controversially are reported to have left Islam.
The 5th Guru, Guru Arjan Dev, supported Khusro's campaign to succeed as the next (Muslim) Mughal Emporer, because of Khusro's justness.
The foundation stone of Sri Harmandir Sahib, Sikhi's center of faith, was laid by Muslim saint Sai Mian Mir
When Muslims in his village had no place to pray, the 6th Guru, Guru Hargobind Sahib built them a mosque, which still exists today
Despite the Mughal oppression of Sikhs, the 7th Guru, Guru Har Rai, tended to (Muslim) Prince Dara Shikoh when he became ill.
Pir Budhu Shah, a Muslim man, sent his people to fight alongside Guru Gobind Singh against Mughal Emporer Aurangzeb's oppression.
Muslim households gave Guru Gobind Singh shelter when he was being hunted by Aurangzeb. One such family them still has his relics.
Until 1947's Partition, the singing of devotional music was accompanied by the playing of the rabab by Muslim musicians
The point here is that there is a lot more to it than simple one sided hate.
5 - I'm sure you remember the whole controversy over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The perception was that Muslims worldwide were in a rage and wanting to destroy the west in response. In reality, it was somewhat overblown.
In fact, when they were first published in the Danish Paper Jyllsden posten, popular Egyptian and Jordanian papers republished them, with almost no reaction whatsoever.
Egypt’s religious and political authorities, even as they were demanding an apology from the Danish Prime Minister, raised no objections to Al Fagr’s full frontal photos.
As Kenan Malik puts it: " The publications of the cartoons in September 2005 caused no immediate reaction, even in Denmark. Only when journalists, disappointed by the lack of controversy, contacted a number of imams for their response, did Islamists begin to recognise the opportunity provided not just by the caricatures themselves but also by the sensitivity of Danish society to their publication.
Among the first contacted was the controversial cleric Ahmed Abu Laban, infamous for his support for Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks. He seized upon the cartoons to transform himself into a spokesman for Denmark’s Muslims. Yet however hard he pushed, he initially found it difficult to provoke major outrage. in Denmark or abroad. It took more than four months of often hysterical campaigning, and considerable arm-twisting by Saudi diplomats, to create a major controversy. At the end of January 2006, Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador from Denmark and launched a consumer boycott of Danish goods.
Of the protests that followed, Jytte Klausen has observed that Jytte Klausen has observed, these protests ‘were not caused by the cartoons, but were part of conflicts in pre-existing hot spots’ such as northern Nigeria, where there exists an effective civil war between Muslim salafists and Christians. The violence surrounding the cartoon conflict, Klausen suggests, has been ‘misreported’ as expressions of spontaneous violence from Muslims ‘confronted with bad pictures’. That, she insists, ‘is absolutely not the case’. Rather ‘these images have been exploited by political groups in the pre-existing conflict over Islam.’ "
Similar to this is the case of South park's 200th episode.
In South Park: Super friends, the South Park team join up with Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad to do some weird stuff that I don't know about because I didn't watch it.
This episode has been up for 17 years, and at the time of SP's 200th episode, was up for 9 years withouht any outrage or censorship.
Most of the outrage for these things only begin when western media lighyts a fire and begins to stoke it.
For instance, after two somewhat suspect Muslim converts threatened the south park creators, CNN's Anderson Cooper didn't interview Muslims. He interviewed Ayaan Ali Hirsi. He also covered the topic for over 10 minutes.
6 - The idea that Muslims don't elect Christian leaders is old and will only get stronger as the hate for Sadiq Khan grows larger.
But its just wrong pure and simple.
The Turkish city of Mardin had a female Christian co-mayor Februniye Akyol Turkey is 99.8 per cent Muslim.
Indonesia's capital city Jakarta had a Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaya Purnama. Indonesia is 87.2 per cent Muslim.
In Bahrain, Alees Thomas Samaan became the first Christian and first woman to chair the country's upper house of Parliament, the Shura Council in 2005. Bahrain is 70.3 per cent Muslim.
Pakistan had a Christian minister of Ports and Shipping, Kamran Michael He was also a member of the committees on Climate Change, Textile Industry and National Food and Health. Pakistan is 96.4 per cent Muslim.
In Egypt, Boutros Boutros Ghali, a Coptic Christian, was the country's Foreign Minister for 14 years. Egypt is 90 per cent Muslim.
The Palestinian city of Ramallah had a female Roman Catholic mayor, Janet Michael She continues to be [a council member of the Ramallah](municipality.http://www.ramallah.ps/userfiles/file/publications/annual/annual_report2013e.pdf)
Senegal had a Catholic president, the late Léopold Sédar Senghor, for 20 years. Senegal is 95.4 per cent Muslim.
Lebanon had a Christian president, Michel Suleiman Lebanon is 54 per cent Muslim.
Anyways, that's it for now, I'll try to be more specific next time.
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