RE: vile MAYBE BUT VERY REAL AT THAT! -
01-03-2002, 11:50 AM
When I said you, it applies to YOU, personally, and everyone generally, who wants to make an informed opinion. You, Kivilo, may have searched out the truth, the rest may not have. Speak for yourself and let the rest do the same.
You did not condemn the faith? Here is your quote:
> The real Muslims leave this to the rest of the world. The question then arises why? Is it that some agree to the reactions of these misinterpretors or?
Now when you say real Muslims, I do take it to mean the rest of the believers, or you want to modify my interpretation?
Condemning the faith does not have to be in the form ALL Muslims, the fact that youve generalized your opinion makes it so. When some idiot commits a crime, even if they claim it is the name of their faith, it does not mean that others of the faith have the same attitude. That person is an anomaly. Billions around the world, educated, thinking human beings are not going to blindly follow a belittling faith preaching hatred and intolerance and that is what the media has been peddling for years.
What makes the attacks on Islam unpalatable is the insistence on the medias part to point out the faith of the idiots. Why dont they do the same with the KKK and other extremist groups? They essentially advocate a form of ethnic/religious cleansing. The faith is not a determinant of the persons actions. What it has turned out to be is an association of terrorism and extremism with the faith. Regardless of what counter argument is presented to the contrary, there is too much focus on that aspect. The lies are drowning the truth out. Yes, Muslims do bear a responsibility to acknowledge, condemn and distance themselves from such barbaric acts, but we do act under the assumption that other thinking human beings will see it for the BS it is. Unfortunately that has not seemed the case.
>this was about the Muslim we can take the Catholics and the protestants or the Christians at another topic if brought up as they have theres too!
I simply used it as an example of how the faiths and the beliefs are handled differently.
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