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Sometimes, history repeat himself, what is happening to Islam in Europe, is not just about the Islam in Europe today, but the same can be said about Roman in Hungary or Rumania, where to being outsider in Europe is not accepted.
Of course things are complicated with religion, not since the 10 century and the Turkey exposing the society to secular ideas in the 19 and 20 century have open Islam into the conflicts with himself.
The internal problem with Islamic countries and Islam with the west is the effect a paternalistic society in conflict with demystification of the power. Where the religion and social values are set into human level, given by religion believe of uniqueness come to end, to the fact nature (Biology) is the same of bipedal homodie species (Humans).
The same effect the reformation had in Europe. The conflict of religion in Europe was not just between Christians group, after all early Christians heresy are Sabellianism (Believe in son, holy spirit and God are modes of the same person), Docetism (Believe Christ is not real, just a reflection of spiritual), Monophytism (Jesus is part to the Logos as human), Adoptionism (God adopted Jesus in conception), Nestorianism (Jesus had two natures man and God. The both nature were separated when Jesus was on Earth), Appolliariasim (Jesus was not real man or he was not totally divine), Arianism (Jesus was create by God for the purpose of being Sacrifice for men salvation), Socianism (Believe Jesus was special person), Donatism (the heresy was social life in this case extreme asceticism), Pelagianism (Believe the original sin was not transmitted by Adam and Eve and the need of Baptism was not needed), Gnosticism (Believe the Jesus just a spiritual being, never human, influence by Platonism) , Manicheanism ( The mix of Christianity with neo-Platonism), Bogomils (Believe Jesus was adopted by God, but not part of the Trinity) and Cathars (They believe Gods of Hebrew story was Satan and that was material world. God of Jesus was good God and spiritual only).
In the same time Christianity was not only group with internal conflict for social cohesion, Islam had share of heresy like Shia (the heresy believe the Mohammed’s son law’s family has the only legitimatize to be leader of Religion, since Islam is political, social behavior and religion). The Sunni believe in elected leaders, but from this conflict a group heresy is found with Sufism which emphasizes prayer and transcendent rituals influence by Christians Gnostics. In the seven and eight Century with expose to Aristotle and Plato, Mu’tazilim attempted to integrated Islam with Greek tradition, they define speech is a about context use for argument. The Orthodoxy was against of introduction of religion debate, because will bring doubt and question legitimize believe.
Wahhabism demands a literal interpretation of the Koran. A pacifist strand appears with Ismailism of spring of Shias, in the same group Nizaris (Assassins) were an extreme violent group, and they use this violence to protect the interest of the descendents of Mohammed. Twelve’s believed that Mohammed had 12 legitimate successors until the last two are hidden by God and will return to make claim is leader of Islam. Mahdi (Twelve) believes spread to the Sunni and tends to be apocalyptic, even does not mean the will come from the family line of Mohammed, but he will be the legitimate leader of Islam.
Judaism also had series of heresy Priest believe they had legitimize since they where care takers of Temple. Rabbinical tradition believe in the tradition interpretation of the law on oral tradition, Essen was an asceticism and there was nationalism group who precipitate a conflict with Romans, of course the Samaritan was consider heresy. From the priest class a heresy sprung in Egypt and Syria in Middle times, where the Bible was took literal, on the other hand, from Rabbinical tradition of mystics two messiahs groups happen after expulsion of Jews from Spain in 12 Century by Islam and 14 Century by Christianity, where mystical traditions developed from early traditions around the second temple. In both cases the Shabtai heresy ended when he convert to Islam and subsequently execute for heresy against Islam, the Shabtai heresy was base on the Rabbinical mystical traditions, and for some Zionism is type of heresy after all God is the only one can give what can take away, the land.
What all the religion had in common is a need to build a social cohesion and anything outside of the Social standard is consider a heresy, in most case where treated with harshness.
The fact the religion has predispose elements of the harshness, consequences, when Jews appear in Germany, we know Jews moving from Constantinople north, and through Hungary and Prague. Since Imperial Rome forbidden Jewish in the land for taken a nationalistic stand, later on restrictions were transform by Christian Rome, because the Jews become a challenge to the validity of Christianity or later to Islam. The restriction to own slaves and eventually land limited the Jews to any leaving connected directly to land, only eventually to become between, meaning peddlers, professions whish not depended on the Guilds retractions, like Medical Doctors, lending money the bankers of the time.
In Germany the settle in Worms, Mainz, Spear and Rotenberg, in France when from Troyes to Dijon, but because wine production was consider land ownership, many communities were involved in Wine make, eventually also restricted, in Worms the community was involved in onion selling, but hostility between Christian and Jews in beginning had to do with fact Christianity saw the Jew a heresy when Crusade was call the first heretics who were not Christians on the mist was not Islam, but the Jewish. The community was expulse and genocide in the Rhine, forcing them to move east, the Pale and Poland.
The Anti-Semitism was eventually secularized and National Socialism in Germany born out secularized Anti-Semitism. The support in early elections in 1930’s come from small shop keepers and artisan feeling treated by introduction of industrial techniques to department stores and of course the Jews saw to be the ones, since they did not belong to the social cohesion. They saw the interest of Germany was their interest and the outsider who had leave amount them for almost a thousand years, are the one’s who destabilize the order, by WWII Jews in Germany where about 5% and today are 0.5%.
Islam had a more homogenous and conflict with secularization is happen now, because secularization and Humanism has stimulated Science and technology. Where the Challenge goes to religion, Men as being reduced and the Authority of Religion is Challenge by demystification of Men. Since Islam had not come to grips justification of his political power a conflict has developed, and in Europe the outsider of the Secular and Humanist tradition as Islam or Gypsies, since they alter the social cohesion has created a conflict where room for tolerance is minimal, since both the group cohesion is more important then individual choice.