Originally posted by Dark Ghost
Islamaphobia can be blamed on a small faction of extremist Muslims that use violence to hurt and murder innocent people. This is comparable to
Anti-Christian sentiment where a small faction of extremist Christians use religious ideology for the same purposes. The difference is that the number
of extremist Muslims that will carry out violence in the name of Islam is far greater than Christians willing to do the same in the name of
Christianity.
Is it wrong to hold your beliefs while you are fighting, it is called moral support(since we all know they don't have millitary support)? Yes no one
agrees in the deaths of innocent people, but hey who isn't doing it these days for political means? Are you telling me America is not responsible for
the deaths of thousands of Muslims? Innocent Muslims? Are you telling me Europe isn't responsible for the deaths of thousands of Muslims? Innocent
Muslims? For political means?
..can be blamed on a small faction of extremist Muslims that use violence to hurt and murder innocent people
Yes and those kinds of people exist in every society, including Democratic, should we demonize all Democracy sympathizers? Communists have already
been demonized in the West, and thousands have died in response, thousands of innocent people, because of that Demonization. Should we continue an
idiotic cultural behavior which has caused more harm than good? You can't blame Islam or the whole Muslim population for the actions of some bad
seeds.
It is unfortunate that a whole populace has been demonised by the actions of a small faction. The average Muslim is like the average person of any
faith, race or religion. They just want peace, security and prosperity for themselves and their families. This labelling is not exclusive to Islam,
though. The existence of Jewish bankers (again a small faction of a populace) gives Jews as a whole a bad name. In countries outside the USA Jews are
given a very hard time because of the actions and social standings of people from the same religion.
The difference between my view and yours is clear from what I can read, you believe Muslims are being demonized because of some in their population
willing to kill innocent people to accomplish their goals, but don't care to mention that there is something more sinister at hand, for example the
middle east situation, and the colonization of middle east by America.
You can't expect to get away with colonization. People will fight, and people are fighting, with any means necessary, whether that be suicide
bombing, or roadside bombings. They are fighting back, and they want to bring the fight to your land, as much as you want to take the fight to their
land.
Does anyone ask why? Why take the fight to their land? Because then who dies? Not your people, but their people. Innocent people.