Europe Being Islamized - A Consequence of the Islamic Religion?

• Author: Florin Iftode
• Pages: 441-450

Globalization - a Controversial Phenomenon of the Contemporary World

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Globalization - a Controversial Phenomenon of the

Contemporary World

Is Europe Being Islamized - A Consequence of the Islamic Religion?

Florin Iftode1

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to try as much as possible to clear the mystery about the violent nature

of Islamic people and to investigate the reasons why they have resorted to terrorist acts marking the whole

history of mankind, in their insatiable quest for uniqueness. The p aper aims at capturing the developments in

the Middle East people who over the years have managed to impose their views and judgments by

intimidation methods. It also wants to be an analysis of the message sent by the Quran, much discussed and

still mysterious to many p eople. What does it really teach? Why do the Muslims believe th at their main

emblem is this book? Why put so much emphasis on the Muslim faith when assessing the potential causes of

Muslim world behaviors? In areas where Islam has created a gateway, it even until today fails to preach as the

theory promises (peacefull y), but by cruelty, murder and terrorist attacks. Finally an issue I will deal with a

very pronounced degree of controversy and also very attractive in terms of events latel y events that are

closely related to acts of terrorism.

Keywords: Islamic culture; Quran; terrorist attacks; geopolitical; Middle East

1. Introduction

Throughout history, the international system was found in a continuous transformation, inter alia, it

also envisaged the need of cultural integration of the Islamic civilization within the spiritual and

material cultures so diverse nowadays. With the horror of 11.09.2001, everything about what was

known about the profiles of terrorists and the significance of Islamic culture that promoted kindness,

coexistence and welfare of the society, took a sudden turn. Experts have revised their opinions, the

object of the study became increasingly vast and the analysis mechanisms of conflicts are so much

more complex, as it changes the nature of the conflicts between civilizations.

Power struggles after Muhammad's death in 632, became fierce. Three other caliphs (Omar, Othman

and Ali) had subsequently led Islam to the stage of large expansion by conquest and wars, so kneeling

two great empires: the Byzantine Empire and the Persian Empire. The pagans were converted and

Muslims split came shortly after the resounding success of the three. So, on the one hand there were

the “Sunnis” and on the other the “Shiites”. Thus it begins a new stage in the development of a process

that we can easily call it “the new world order”. Islamism is an important political trend that succeeds

to shake regular sequence with spatial temporal, moral and logical feature of the occurrences.

Unfortunately, all Islam rejects vehemently the concept of “modern state”, even more than that, it

1 Associate Professor, PhD, Faculty of Communication and International Relations, Danubius University of Galati, Romania,

Address: 3 Galati Blvd., Galati 8 00654, Romania, Tel.: +40372361102, Corresponding author: floriniftode@univ-

danubius.ro.