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标题：宗教和恐怖主义 -- 魏京生
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Religion
and Terrorism
-- Wei
Jingsheng
Most
people often make simple and intuitive errors while judging complex
issues. When these errors do not
get correct constraints and guidance, it often starts to rapidly develop on a
wrong path and ultimately lead to disaster. People 's emotions tend to resonate, whether the conclusion
is correct or not.
For
example, after the well-known 911 disaster, the society in the United States
started a trend of excluding Muslims.
Many people indiscriminately thought Islam itself raises and educates
the terrorists, as well as helps the terrorists raise funds and create a
variety of conditions. Thus,
although the government and the law does not allow discrimination against
Muslims, people take practical action to boycott the Muslims to the degree that
many totally law-abiding Muslims cannot even make a living.
At
this time there are a lot of insightful people who came out and explained
patiently. First, Osama bin Laden
was not nurtured by Muslims.
Instead, Osama bin Laden and his fellow terrorists just happened to be
trained by the CIA to deal with the Soviets. Now Americans are shooting themselves in the foot, and
cannot shift the blame to Islam.
Second,
most Muslim countries do not accept terrorists like Osama bin Laden
either. Even a dictator like
Saddam Hussein would not accept this gang of terrorists. Most of Islam in the world not only
would not accept these terrorists, but also severely condemn terrorist attacks
against civilians. Among the vast
majority of Muslims, terrorism is neither popular, nor associated with Islam.
Third,
the origin of modern terrorism happens to be unrelated to Islam. It has a direct association with the
extremist ideology of communism.
We see this association from the rise of the Provisional Irish
Republican Army in 1960's and 1970's, to the Red Brigades of Italy, to the
Japanese Red Army, to Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) in Peru, and the most
famous Red Army Faction in Germany.
Just listening to these names, most of people could guess these terrorist
organizations do not have anything to do with Islam. Instead, they are all have obvious relationships associated
with the fundamentalist factions of Communism and Mao Zedong's Thought.
In
the circle of ideology and biology, there are many things that do not have a
linear logic. Some insects may not
be significant in its original location, yet it makes a huge disaster on a new
continent. No one would think a
few bunny rabbits to be a disaster, yet there were no predators in Australia
that were fast enough to catch them.
It did not need very many years for the rabbits to become a disaster by
eating the pasture and thus become the number one enemy to the Australian
herders.
Communism
is also something like that. In
Europe where it originated, it was just a pet in the hands of some radical
intellectuals. But in Eastern
Europe and Asia, appearing with the face of fundamentalism, it started to call
all others as revisionism and invaded all the way into disaster. Of which, the most ferocious, the most
blatant, and indeed which has become independent to form its own system thus
able to return to fool the Europeans is the Mao Zedong Thought from China. In the nineteen sixties and seventies,
the first wave of terrorism reached its climax in Western democratic countries.
Yasser
Arafat in his black-and-white checkered keffiyeh should be counted as the head
culprit to bring terrorism to its climax in the Arab countries. For the purpose of containing Israel,
these oil rich countries spent a lot to feed Arafat, this extreme
terrorist. His imitators do not
have as much good luck as he did.
Unable to spend big money to feed the terrorist army, they could only rely
on faith to fool young people into turning themselves to ashes under
canon. Starting from that era, the
rebels in the Muslim countries have turned themselves into fundamentalists one
after another.
The
common feature of fundamentalism is to claim the imams in the traditional
mosques as revisionists, who distort the teachings of the Prophet. So now the fundamentalists come to
teach the true and original teachings, the original doctrine of the Prophet
Muhammad. So they self-claim
themselves as fundamentalists.
Whether it is Christianity or Islam, both have origins from the Judaism
in the Middle East. The original
scriptures do contain a lot of rhetoric of violence and terror.
So
at an early stage, these religions were killing each other, or killing
within. They were like the Red
Guard rebels during the Cultural Revolution period in China, who held the very
same Red Book of Mao Zedong, yet mercilessly killed all others with different
interpretations of that same book.
After more than one thousand years of slaughtering each other, people
began realizing there is no sense in continuing so. So starting from the Christians in the United States, and
then extending to Christianity in the whole globe, they have learned to
tolerate each other and respect each other. Finally people have embarked on the process of modernizing
religion.
Soon
after, most of the Islam religion also quietly began their reforms. They do not repeat the verses of
murder, arson, and mission through force.
Gradually, they started to put love as the first priority and mutual
respect. Unfortunately, at that
time, it just happened the speed of modernization in the Arabic world was
slower than in their neighboring European countries, and the social discontent
and social conflict started to rise rapidly. This gave the Muslim fundamentalists good chances to attract
the lower classes who were discontented with the upper classes of the religion
The
distance from fundamentalism to the terrorism of religious extremes was never
far away. Thus almost all the
social conflicts in the Muslim countries are developing toward the religious
extremes and growing larger and stronger.
The most outstanding examples would be the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
and the Taliban in Afghanistan, which have developed into the first major
political forces by population in their own countries. When left unchecked, they will
certainly become strongholds of terrorism in the whole world.
The
so-called radical Muslim organizations in Xinjiang basically have a similar
track as the Muslim fundamentalism in the whole world, except a later start-up. However, radicalization has been
catching up rapidly in Xinjiang.
This development is due to the positive relationship of the rapidly
expanding wealth gap and intensified social conflict in Xinjiang. In particular, due to the persecution
during the Cultural Revolution period, the imams have become intimidated and
speak according to the caliber of the Communist government. This toadyism has resulted in even more
loss of the trust of Muslim followers in Xinjiang. It has left an extremely large space for the terrorism,
which sounds cool and seems to be likely effective.
A
three-foot deep freeze is not a result of one cold day, just like Rome was not
built in a day. The Xinjiang
problem will not be solved effectively through a policy of blind repression, or
a policy of continuous appeasement.
Of the factors, the Communist regime is a great impediment. People with a breadth of vision could
discuss and see how to return the ethnic relations in China back to where they
were before Muslim fundamentalism came to China.
To
hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2014/WeiJS140315Religion&Terrorism.mp3
(Written
and recorded on March 15, 2014.
Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia.)
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Wei
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Date: April 26, 2014
发布日：2014年4月26日
Topic:
Religion and Terrorism -- Wei Jingsheng
标题：宗教和恐怖主义 -- 魏京生
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宗教和恐怖主义
-- 魏京生
大多数人在判断复杂的问题时，常常会犯简单直观的错误。而这种错误在得不到正确的约束和引导的情况下，常常会迅速向歧途上发展，最终酿成大祸。人们的情绪往往会产生共鸣，而无论结论正确与否。
例如著名的911灾难发生后，美国社会掀起一片排斥穆斯林的思潮。大多数民众不分青红皂白，就认定是伊斯兰教养育和教育了恐怖分子，并且帮助他们筹款和创造各种条件。因此虽然政府和法律不允许歧视穆斯林，但老百姓以实际行动抵制穆斯林，弄得很多完全守法的穆斯林也无法生存下去。
这时候有很多有识之士出来做了耐心的解释。第一，本拉登并不是伊斯兰教培养出来的。他和他的一帮恐怖分子恰好是美国中央情报局培养出来对付苏联人的。现在美国人是搬起石头砸了自己的脚，不能把罪责推到伊斯兰教身上。
第二，大多数伊斯兰教国家也不接受本拉登这些恐怖分子，甚至连萨达姆侯赛因这样的独裁者，也不接受这帮恐怖分子。这个世界上的绝大多数伊斯兰教会，不但不接受这帮恐怖分子，而且对他们袭击平民的行为都进行了严厉的谴责。这说明恐怖主义在绝大多数穆斯林里边没有市场。也和伊斯兰教没有关系。
第三，近代恐怖主义的发源，恰恰和伊斯兰教没关系，而和共产主义的极端思想有直接的关系。从六、七十年代兴起的北爱尔兰共和军；意大利的红色旅；日本的赤军；秘鲁的光辉道路和最有名的德国红军派，光听名字大多数人都能猜到，这和伊斯兰教没有半毛钱的关系。倒是和共产主义里的原教旨主义派别，毛泽东思想有太明显的、血肉相连的关系。
思想界和生物界的很多事物常常有不符合直线逻辑的关系。例如，某种昆虫在原产地不显山、不露水的，换了一个大陆就成为了灾难。几只家兔谁都不认为会成灾，可是在澳大利亚就没有追得上它的食肉动物。没过多少年就泛滥成灾，吃光了草场，成为澳大利亚牧民的第一大敌人。
共产主义这个东西也是这样，在它的原产地欧洲一直就不过是一些激进知识分子手中的宠物。可是在东欧和亚洲，它开始以原教旨主义的面貌封别人为修正主义，并且一路泛滥成灾。其中最为凶恶的、最为赤裸裸的、而且还确实自成体系，返回来把欧洲人哄得悟迷散道的，就是咱们中国的毛泽东思想。在六、七十年代，在西方民主国家里掀起了第一波的恐怖主义高潮。
在阿拉伯国家里掀起恐怖主义高潮的罪魁祸首，应该是那个缠着花包头的阿拉法特。石油富国们为了牵制以色列，花大价钱豢养了这个极端恐怖主义者。他的模仿者们就没有这么好的运气了。不能花钱豢养恐怖主义队伍，就只能靠信仰来忽悠一批年轻人当炮灰。从那个时代开始，穆斯里国家里的反叛者们就纷纷变身为原教旨主义者。
原教旨主义的共同特征，就是说传统教堂里的阿訇们都是修正主义，歪曲了先知的教义。所以原教旨主义现在要来给大家传授真正的、原始的教义，什么什么才是穆罕默德先知的原始教旨。所以他们自称为原教旨主义。而无论是基督教、还是伊斯兰教，都起源于中东的犹太教。原始的经文中确实有很多暴力和恐怖言论。
所以这些宗教在早期都是互相杀伐，或者内部互相杀伐。就像文革时的红卫兵造反派一样，抱着同一本红宝书，靠不同的解释杀得昏天黑地。杀了千把年，都觉得再杀下去大家都没有出路。所以先是从美国的基督教开始，然后扩展到全球的基督教，学会了互相容忍，互相尊重。终于走上了宗教现代化的历程。
之后不久，伊斯兰教的大部分也开始了静悄悄的改革。不再重提那些杀人放火，武力传教的经文了。而逐渐把重点放在了爱人为先，互相尊重上边。遗憾的是这时候正赶上阿拉伯世界的现代化速度明显落后于附近的欧洲国家，社会不满和社会矛盾迅速上升。这就给了原教旨主义者们良好的机会，去吸引那些对宗教上层不满的下层民众。
从原教旨主义到宗教极端的恐怖主义，距离本来就不遥远。所以穆斯林国家的社会矛盾几乎都向宗教极端的方向发展，而且声势浩大。其中的佼佼者要数埃及的穆斯林兄弟会和阿富汗的塔利班
，已经在人数上发展成国家的第一大政治势力。任其发展下去，肯定会成为全世界恐怖主义的大本营。
新疆的所谓激进的穆斯林组织，和全世界的穆斯林原教旨主义的发展轨迹基本相同。只是起步稍微晚了一些，但发展的迅猛却是后来居上。这和贫富差距，社会矛盾有正相关的关系。特别是文革中整得阿訇们畏畏缩缩，一切都按政府的口径说话。这就更失去了教民的信任，给听上去很爽、看上去可能有效的恐怖主义，预留了极大的空间。
冰冻三尺非一日之寒。解决新疆的问题，绝不是一味的镇压就能奏效，也不是一味的怀柔就能奏效。其中共产党政权是一个极大的阻碍因素。有识之士们可以展开讨论，看看中国如何才能恢复到原教旨主义传进来之前的民族关系。
聆听魏京生先生的相关录音，请访问：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2014/WeiJS140315Religion&Terrorism.mp3
（撰写并录音于2014年3月15日。自由亚洲电台播出。）
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