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"Islam is a peaceful religion." If true, in what ways is this religion peaceful?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by USS Vanguard: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [qb] On the other hand, I haven't seen 'peaceful' Muslims everywhere condemning these acts as strongly as they should be. Rather, our attempting to punish the guilty 'offends' them... despite their demonstrated lack of ability (or is it lack of desire?) to do it themselves.[/qb][/QUOTE] Well the main reason they don't do it themselves is that in each Islamic nation, there is often a small but vocal fundamentalist group. The last thing any one of those governments want is that group rising up because they attacked the taliban. Nations like Uzbekistan and even Pakistan are taking a big risk helping us. If things go wrong, those little fundie groups could become BIG fundie groups. Then you've got a problem. Secondly, about muslims feeling offended, you only think that because of what you see on CNN. It is a well documented statistic that when you are against something, you will be quite a bit more vocal about it. So in essence, we are seeing only a small proportion of the population. A friend of mine from Pakistan told me that more often than not, its the same three nutjobs from his old apartment building who go out protesting just about everything. Others who feel offended might be because of the news about attacks on Muslim Americans in America. I mean, its the same thing, a couple of wack jobs affecting the image of the entire nation. And just how far do you want these people to condemn the attacks. Not as much as they "Should be"? i mean what the hell does that mean. There are two continents and two oceans between us and them. Its a bit hard to feel sympathy for people so far away. I'm not saying that they SHOULDN'T feel sympathy, just don't expect so much. I still have trouble imagining the suicide bombings in Israel or death in Serbia. I don't consider myself a bad person, I just have trouble relating to it as I'm sure many people are. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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