How to de-fanaticize Muslims of Middle East ?

We all are human beings and religions were developed in medieval times to make a better human beings and a better human society. The Muslim intellectuals of Middle East developed a very orthodox version of Islam by incorporating many things – some from Islam and some by themselves. There is no command for beard or circumcision but these were made sole identification for Muslim male. The command for purdah is not as presented by them. The commands for war and death penalty were for specific occasions and not as now understood by them and at least war means war with those who fight and not killing of non-fighting men, women and children and never one done by suicide.

Same religion, same Scripture and same teachings by Prophet would have taken in entirely different ways by people of other places if these had come there as in India or China or Japan.

If Jews of Israel start killing on plea that their religion is truest and first religion then it must not be reason to find fault with Judaism or their Scripture or Prophet and such fanaticism is still found in some Jews and Christians though they are tiny minority whereas fanatic Muslims are in majority and there are non-religious reasons for that.

Why majority of Middle East’s Muslims are fanatic ?

First it is not necessary that majority of Muslims are fanatic as a powerful minority keeps fanaticism prevalent. The religion was misused to keep women and other people subjugated as in Europe Inquisitions were instituted.

It is human weakness that every man wants his wife to be virgin at time of marriage and to remain loyal throughout her life and he covets other women himself. The men of Middle East developed whole religion and social system based upon it – women were confined in to purdah and when adultery was suspected she was stoned to death.

Then same men want to save their faith by killing any person who raises doubt or says something of such nature. So they are killing Sufis, Shias and others on charge of heresy/blasphemy. They and others quote their Scripture or Prophet but similar things are in Old Testament but majority of present day Jews and Christians based their religion on those things.

Here in India, here was one noble Muslim who later became Judge High Court. His wife used to take Music lessons from a Sikh teacher and then one day she eloped with her teacher leaving behind two small daughters. Then later she returned and in the mean time her daughter had grown and become advocate and she lived with her daughters perhaps in the same house of her living husband. So there is something specific with Muslims of Middle East who get their wives killed on charge of adultery.   

So if there be true democracy in Middle East then hopefully if  open minded people are in majority then fanaticism will become a thing of past as it has been discarded by other people.

If majority opts for fanaticism then whole modern civilized World may coerce them to come in line and adopt modern laws and Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948   as South Africa was coerced to end apartheid. Thus instead of blaming Islam and Scripture and Prophet the civilized World must take fanaticism as social pathology of particular people and must institute treatment and prophylaxis like any disease.