Religious Fanaticism

I am going to discuss this matter according to the three holy religions, Islam, Christianity and Jewish.

We can find that there are a lot of common things between the three holy religions, all their believers believe in GOD, in angels, prophets, paradise and hell. These common things make the atmosphere suitable for tolerance between the holy religions.

According to this principle was Muslim's tolerant treatment to the believers of the other holy religions through history which can be proved by many situations.

They were and still safe in the Islamic country were they can worship and carry their rituals freely.

The phenomenon of religious fanaticism is new and it's wrong to link between it and Islam. It's a global phenomenon which has many reasons.

The religious fanaticism may be caused by governments which try to deceive its people and deceive the world. There is a lot of fanaticism against Islam. Many people think that we are a big group of terrorists. This is probably because they don't know the true picture of Islam as many governments try to cover it especially using mass-media. Lack of religious knowledge may also cause this kind of fanaticism. If we tried to achieve religious tolerance, the world would be much better.

Ahmed Said Hefny