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Originally Posted by Rasczak  What is the reason for your love affair for Muslims? Why are you so defensive about them? Aside from their track record for being the chief producer of terrorism, they aren't doing so well in the human rights department either. Never mind their religious beliefs.
So why the cognative disonance? I can only think of two reasons.
1. You aren't really expressing what you consider the truth, you just look for any opportunity or excuse to disagree with me or distance yourself from my position.
2. You see the Muslim problem as a conservative problem, or an enemy of the establishment, or something like that - and you don't like the establishment or conservatives or America or whatever, and the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
Or maybe you think you appear enlightened by diminishing such an obvious problem?
We all agree there isn't a problem with every last individual Muslim, why can't you admit there is an institutional problem with Islam as a whole? |
What's this? the 'either your with us or against us' school of thought creeping in maybe?
I have no particular love affair for Muslims (though if I did I'm sure there could be other reasons beyond the two you came up with). My concern is (as I think I have explained before) that by labeling the issue of concern (terrorism) as being a 'Muslim issue', you contribute to a significant level of xenophobia and hatred which is leveled at Muslims in general. This in turn can only lead more conflict. It is not helpful to the solution. Solutions always lie in recognising the cause. In this case, it's an issue of 'understand your enemy' - try to figure out why the terrorism occurs. It makes no sense to think that it occurs because these people are Muslims, simply because there are so many non-terrorist Muslims in the world.
Do you want to have a stab at why you think there is terrorism targeted at America in recent years?