When I was in school, I had a Pakistani friend. The Mom wasn’t allowed to drive. The daughter wanted to be a brain surgeon, but she wasn’t allowed to go to college-- she got married off in an arranged marriage after high school. I presume the same thing happened to her sisters, but I had lost contact with her.
So, our disparate religions didn’t keep us from being friends, and visiting each other, and having fun— but we both had very different cultural defaults/worldviews, if that makes sense, which were heavily influenced by our respective religions, which we both took seriously.
I’m totally blanking on the word I want— but I would politely point out that the people who follow Sharia law are not best defined as extremists, but they adhere to the fundamental principles of their faith. To them, sharia law is God’s law, and the rejection of the principles of sharia is rejecting God and his prophets.
I remember watching a YouTube video about a mullah who was giving a series of lectures. One of the points he brought up was how irritating it was that the news cycle calls things “radical Islam” or “extremism” or whatever, when in fact, that’s just stuff that happens in the matter of course, and they’re all called to follow their faith heroically should the need arise. I tried looking through about 20 pages’ worth of links, but I wasn’t able to hit on the right keywords to bring it up.
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I think it might have been this one-- “Radical Islam isn’t radical, it’s just Islam”.