February 17, 2011

Islam and Peace: Oxymoron or perfect match?

Hakan Yeşilova

For many decades, perhaps centuries, "Islam" and "peace" were a pair of incongruous words. "Peace" was like Troy, many thought, and Muslims were the attacking Greeks -- how fictional or factual Homer's "Iliad" was, and thus how true it was that Troy lay in the East and was innocent, is a matter of research yet to be convincingly conducted.