Marc Pilisuk joins our hosts Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler to look at this very common question: “So, you think nonviolence works? Then what about ISIS?” Marc Pilisuk is professor, co-author of The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War? and the co-editor (with Michael Nagler) of Peace Movements Worldwide. You can find his article on ISIS here: Engaging the ISIS Threat.
After our conversation with Marc, our news anchor, Michael Nagler, brings us nonviolence in the news!
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I realize that Isis participants have personal stories and experiences that lead them to listen to the Isis leaders. But, the ideology behind their violence is based on literal interpretation of a written holy book. It is in the writings of the Koran, to wipe out the nonbelievers or apostates, whether this is viewed as an arcane or historical context of Jihad, it is nonetheless, clearly worded. I know this is a tool Isis uses to give suicide bombers a feeling of acceptance and nobility, but, since it is written in the book that all peaceful Muslims accept as truth,how can we separate out the power grab of the Islamist State without denigrating their holy book, which seems to back Isis in the quest re-establish a Caliphate Empire.I would desire that Muslim leaders and holy men come forward and denounce this literal exegesis of the Koran. I feel that a more vocal and public excoriation of violence from them is also necessary, to dissuade any new converts to a hateful ideology, and to open a path of discussion among all believers of all faiths.