(Editor’s Note: Mr. Leaphart is an attorney from Jesup, Ga. He is a graduate of the Atlanta Law School, and was the attorney for Wayne County and its school board and also for the McIntosh County school board.—eeb)
By Alvin Leaphart, Jesup, Ga. | The moving forces in society are not lawyers. Lawyers simply work within the framework of society as it exists during a period in history, trying to make sense out of it, and maintain peace and harmony in society.
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The moving forces, or the changers, are religious leaders, activists, and radicals in all groups. Religious leaders work to keep things as they are; activists seek change; and radicals use one or the other, or both, to destroy a society and create a new one in their own image.
This situation has been true throughout history. Christian radicals in the Middle Ages invaded Europe and destroyed the pagan societies bringing various brands of Christianity to the regions and created kingdoms, in their own images. Now we have Islamic radicals, ISIS, seeking to destroy the various societies in the Middle East, Islamic societies, and the Christian societies in Europe and the rest of the World.
This is not a religious movement. ISIS is a radical movement which is using Islam, the same as the Crusaders used in the 10th Century — a movement of the Europeans to conquer and ravage countries of the Middle East for their own selfish motives.
If all Moslems were a danger, and involved in this movement, why is ISIS attacking Syria and Iraq, as well as seeking inroads into Turkey?
When the Jews were conquered by the Babylonians, the Jews had no abstract idea of good and evil, no hierarchy of angels and devils, and no Messiah. When Cyrus the Persian, a Zoroastrian man, conquered Babylonia, he brought with him a concept of good and evil, a hierarchy of angels and devils. And the idea of a Messiah. Out of this came Zionism, and from that came Christianity and Islam.
We all worship the same God. We just call Him by a different name.
We don’t need to condemn Islam for the violence; there are insane, misguided, and vicious people in all religions. The West needs to come together with Islam as well as with all other religions and destroy a common enemy.
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