Philip Jenkins Quotes
The twenty-first century will be regarded by future historians as a century in which religion replaced ideology as the prime animating and destructive force in human affairs.
Philip Jenkins, Historian, “The Next Christianity,” The Atlantic Monthly, October 2002
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Huqqani was specifically referring to Muslim religious scholars, but his point is more general and applies equally to some religious scholars and clerics of Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and other persuasions.
Despite his recognition of this point, he too became an advocate of murdering religious opponents.
Most Americans and Europeans and their governments feel that Muslim leaders and organizations have not done very much in terms of “drawing the line” and publicly condemning terrorism. However many of the critics did not understand the intimidation that exists in most Islamic communities where the fascist fundamentalists target any Muslim public critics as heretics and apostates themselves. Many have been killed or injured in assassination attempts.
While Perez describes the situation accurately, he does not mention here that there is a minority of fundamentalist Jewish Israelis, and they too do not make compromises easily. Nor do the Christian fundamentalists in the United States. All say, “How do you compromise with the will of God.”
His intolerance and bigotry not only is of Muslims and Hindus, but extends to some Protestant denominations as well. See {643060} for additional examples of bias on the part of this erstwhile Presidential aspirant. To him, religions, unless they agree with his religious beliefs, are evil and dangerous to society.
Philip Jenkins is a professor of history at Baylor University in the United States, and co-director for Baylor's Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies of Religion. He is also the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University (PSU). He was professor (from 1993) and a distinguished professor (from 1997) of history and religious studies at the same institution; and also assistant, associate and then full professor of criminal justice and American studies at PSU, 1980–93.
