If the question for Islam is, as you suggest, "how can we end corruption?", then it has been an abysmal failure. I am not excusing or suggesting that the West does not suffer from some corruption, but not on the scale seen in most Middle Eastern and other countries. Corruption is precisely one of the mechanisms to obtain and secure power…
If the question for Islam is, as you suggest, "how can we end corruption?", then it has been an abysmal failure. I am not excusing or suggesting that the West does not suffer from some corruption, but not on the scale seen in most Middle Eastern and other countries. Corruption is precisely one of the mechanisms to obtain and secure power. Hamas, Hezbollah and other radical Islamic groups, are supported by a highly corrupt government, Iran. And, rather than use their funds to better their people, they instead build tunnels, buy munitions, and otherwise engage in jihad. Let me suggest, that just being a nonbeliever does not mean that you are corrupt. Perhaps Islam needs to look in its own mirror and perhaps engage in a reformation before pointing the finger elsewhere.
To a Muslim, anything that leads away from Islam is corruption. It can be people, laws, institutions, art, anything. To them, our Western definition is only a tool to use against infidels and their works.
Then they ought not come here and be tempted. Moreover, they need to answer for why their corrupt leaders do not use the funds provided by others to build schools, hospitals, roads, infrastructure to benefit the people, but instead steal it and use it to build tunnels, buy weapons, and deliberrately install military installations in and under civilian populations making them human fodder - is that not the definition of corruption?
If the question for Islam is, as you suggest, "how can we end corruption?", then it has been an abysmal failure. I am not excusing or suggesting that the West does not suffer from some corruption, but not on the scale seen in most Middle Eastern and other countries. Corruption is precisely one of the mechanisms to obtain and secure power. Hamas, Hezbollah and other radical Islamic groups, are supported by a highly corrupt government, Iran. And, rather than use their funds to better their people, they instead build tunnels, buy munitions, and otherwise engage in jihad. Let me suggest, that just being a nonbeliever does not mean that you are corrupt. Perhaps Islam needs to look in its own mirror and perhaps engage in a reformation before pointing the finger elsewhere.
To a Muslim, anything that leads away from Islam is corruption. It can be people, laws, institutions, art, anything. To them, our Western definition is only a tool to use against infidels and their works.
Then they ought not come here and be tempted. Moreover, they need to answer for why their corrupt leaders do not use the funds provided by others to build schools, hospitals, roads, infrastructure to benefit the people, but instead steal it and use it to build tunnels, buy weapons, and deliberrately install military installations in and under civilian populations making them human fodder - is that not the definition of corruption?
... but that would make them Christian ;-)