The Change Nature of Islam

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The Change Nature of Islam
A. Introduction
How to describe Islam correctly?
This question has been a concern for many International Relations experts. Experts realize that they face new issues in the new Millennium after almost five decades discussing Cold War and how to stop it. Back to the old time, both sides which become main attention in Cold War was states. In present time, non-states actors have taken a part in international issues. The 11 September 2011 incident had disenchanted experts that Islam should be considered as important actors in predicting near future.
When experts and mass media tried to know what public in general think about Islam, they found that most of the opinions were negative. According to CBS polling on 9 September 2011 conducted in the United States (Condon, 2011), one in three believed that Muslim Americans tend to be more sympathetic towards terrorist rather than other Americans (with other religion preferences).
Other poll, which conducted in France, generated similar result (Flynn, 2012). Most of them believe that Muslim play ‘too influential’ role in society. Furthermore, 60% of them believe that Islam is a threat to local culture rather than enriching it. Jerome Forquet from Ifop opinion department that conducted the poll in France believes that Islam issues take a central stage in France. The French-man states that no weeks without the news discussing the halal food issue, terrorist attack or geopolitical reason issues in France.
The poll showed negative opinion about Islam. But, we should not believe that Islam is a bad religion just because they got bad result from polling. We need to analyze Islam based on historic background and also original idea of Islam. We cannot disprove that gl...

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