I agree with alot of the stuff in this article, save for this one paragraph
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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
The truth is that there is every reason to believe that a terrifying number of the world's Muslims now view all political and moral questions in terms of their affiliation with Islam. This leads them to rally to the cause of other Muslims no matter how sociopathic their behavior.
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Now this is exactly what happens on these boards too much where an issue becomes figureheaded, and rational opinions are lopped together. Anytime the word Islam and Muslim comes up the automatic reflex is to post pictures of Muslims burning pinatas with the unmentioned subtext "this is Islam".
Just because I was offended by muslim cartoons, doesn't mean I was rioting with molotov cocktail hurling lunatic. Nor was anyone in my community. If hypothetically cared that the pope made comments about Islam, it doesn't necessarily mean that I was all for murdering nuns. Just because I don't support abortions I don't go around throwing rocks at clinics.
As a muslim who exists in the world, I think that that paragraph is implying that muslims fall passionately into the clutches of radicalism. Now
I know people like ABC, will try to convince me that that's excatly whats happening. But the thing is that I refuse to be bought by handfuls of pictures of and select internet articles/blogs. If you wanna believe that that's how that will communicate the hearts and minds of Muslims go ahead, that's your choice. But don't expect to learn anything but a picture that's painted for you.
That's about as far as I go sticking my head in the sand, about terrorism. I'm not going to go into any discussion about how the war on terror should be fought because that's not what this is about.