Poll:Islam-West rift widens- Do you agree?
[b]Islam-West rift widens, poll says[/b]
Most people in Muslim countries and the West believe divisions between them are worsening, a Gallup poll for the World Economic Forum (WEF) suggests.
The poll also suggested that most Europeans thought more interaction with Islam would be a threat - though most Americans disagreed.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7200514.stm
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[b]SO DO U AGREE THAT THE GAP BETWEEN ISLAM & THE WEST IS WIDENING & WORSENING OR ARE ISLAM & THE WEST CLOSER THAN EVER BEFORE?
DO MUSLIMS & NON MUSLIMS HAVE MORE IN COMMON OR MORE DIFFERENCES?
ARE MUSLIM & NON MUSLIMS COMPATIBLE TO EACH OTHER?
DO YOU GET ON WITH NON MUSLIMS IN THE UK & HOW DO THEY PERCEIVE YOU?[/b]
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[quote="Bliss"]I'm sure I'm not making this up, but I remember at a talk Shaykh Hamza Yusuf saying that the word Kafir or some word with a similar pronunciation to that means farmer in Arabic.[/quote]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafir]This Wikipedia entry[/url] (including Ya'qub's excerpt) is pretty exhaustive, and has a good list of sources.
Aside from malik's use of the term, which frankly is offensive, I would agree with some of his point - that relations between cultures are not necessarily bad, made worse by the media and the overly PC. Not generally because they're trying to cause problems, but because they report on problems and treat Muslims alternately as dangerous and fragile, which is how some Muslims seem to like it à la Cartoongate. Nevertheless that's a simple analysis.
malik could have expressed his view on how Muslims and non-Muslims should relate to each other, instead of seizing the opportunity for a self-contradictory attack on "kaafir evils news".