thats because American media doesn't give exposure to Muslims who condemn Muslim terrorism and extremism.
American Media is as liberal as it gets. The liberal base is infatuated with Muslims. Ergo; The American Media won't speak out against it's biggest audience. Liberals would tear apart American-Muslims that spoke out, and loose faith In the MSM if it sided with anything but their agenda and beliefs. There is just way too much news that never makes it's way from MSM (and to our livingrooms) or it's so watered down that you have to ask; [Why did they even bother to give us that story"?] American-Muslims should simply take to the streets. Wave those protest signs, step up to the plate. Not just cower down with the excuse; [Gee, American Media doesn't want to hear us]
Sounds to me you are not interested in an honest answer as to what MAY be the cause. I don't have all the answers, just some thoughts. So you just throw them away mainly because that is not what you want to hear. So be it.
I didn't cast a vote because neither option represents my feelings or stance. I don't arbitrarily hate groups of people based on a title. Just as abhorrent as today's radical, bloodthirsty, Muslim religionists were the the religious leaders in Europe during the Dark Ages (read Foxe's Book of Martyrs) or the so-called "Christian" leader we call Jim Jones of Guyana. Or we could focus our attention on the Marxist, atheists known as the Bolsheviks who massacred or starved millions of Christians and ethnic Russians. So, in looking back at these various groups I can say that I hate their actions but I don't hate all Catholics as a result of the things that the popes did during the Dark Ages; and I don't hate all Christians as a result of the things that took place under the sick and watchful eye of Jim Jones; nor do I hate all Jews due the actions of the Jewish Bolsheviks (Trotsky, Lenin, etc.).
Share....It would seem that not many of us have heard "what Muslims have to say about the terrorists." They appear to say it very quietly.
I have posted links to where Muslims protested by the hundreds against terrorism in just the last few weeks alone. You must also understand that the reason you don't see many large scale protests in these Middle Eastern countries is because not all of them afford the same laws to citizens as we do in the Western world. Plus Radical Islam has the tendency to kill you and your entire family if you dare speak out against them. That causes many Muslims in the region to remain silent. Plus unless you are someone who actively reads foreign news articles then you will likely miss much of what goes on. Fox News and CNN aren't the only news agencies in the world. Just because they don't report it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Its in the newspapers every day for the past several years. I would suggest that you read Arab News, Saudi Gazette, al Bawaba, Yemen Times, Gulf Times, Daily Star, Cairo Times..
How many Christians must have their heads sliced off before Muslims are no longer the victims? Seriously, I'm looking for a numerical figure.
ISIL wants you to hate and fear all Muslims. Same strategy as the 9-11 hijackers. - - - Updated - - - ISIL wants you to hate and fear all Muslims. Same strategy as the 9-11 hijackers.
That post doesn't even make any sense. You can't be Muslim and non-religious/secular. Islam is a dangerous religion. Unless it goes through a dramatic reformation like Christianity did Islam will continue to be an authoritarian theology that treats minority groups as second class citizens.........if they are even counted as citizens. There is a reason that ALL Islamic countries rank at the very bottom of international freedom rankings. There is a reason why protestant/secular countries rank at the top of the list. Christianity and other religions first and foremost preach out peace and converting others via peaceful means. That doesn't mean that Christianity behaved that way all the time but no one can point to a single Bible passage that has Jesus saying (kill any (*)(*)(*)(*)ers that don't worship me) or Buddhist passages that says convert your enemies or kill them. The Koran on the other hand is full of such wonderful violent nonsense and unlike the Old Testament in the Bible which Christianity no longer has to follow, Muslims are expected to still follow the dictates of that nutty religion. Islam is a despicable, horrible misogynistic, violent, repressive and barbaric theology and has no place in a modern civilized world. The fact that liberals will throw tantrums about the GOP war on women but completely ignore what Islam has done to women around the world shows how hypocritical and partisan the left in this country really is.
In the world there are about 1,500,000,000 Muslims. How many terrorists? How many radical Islamists? How many haters of the Western civilization? Can we really sustain, seriously, that Islam [that 1.5 Billion of persons] is a real threat to the rest of the world? * Turkey is a Muslim member of NATO [are Turkish generals ready to betray us?] * Pakistan is allied with US and it has got a nuclear arsenal [is Pakistan going to nuke us?] * Indonesia is the greatest Muslim country around the world, they are our allies ... * Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries have got no problem in supplying us oil to make our civilization work ... [do they hate us, but not our money? Eh ...]. The radical Islam is concentrated in a well detectable area and its real structures are quite little. The so called "Arab masses" are not supporting them. Period. If someone dreams a new Cold War [this time against Islam], that's a day dreamer.
My best friend growing up and his family were from Pakistan. I remember him studying the Koran as a child. I can say with all honesty I would have no qualms leaving my children in his or his family's care. I can give no more higher praise.
I don't hate or fear ALL Muslims, nor will I ever. Keep trying, eventually you may get something right.
Though I do not hate Muslims (or anyone else for that matter, other than perhaps my ex-wife), nor do I fear them...I do not like the ways in which the religion treats women, and pretty much everyone outside it. I have a pronounced bias against Arab men as well be they Muslim or not, for much the same reason . I suppose I can be considered a bigot in this....but no longer much care.
I was pertaining to American-Muslims. Where are they? I understand the silence of Muslims in Islamic countries, I fail to understand American-Muslims here. Are the ones here afraid to speak out for fear of their American-Muslim neighbors? What would that say about the over all American-Muslim community?
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/171666-muslims-denounce-isis-enemies-humanity-dearborn-michigan/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/10/husain-american-muslims-march-saudi-embassy-protes/ It does seem as though American Muslims aren't as outspoken about anti-terrorism as many of their other Western Muslim counter parts. My only conclusion is to use the same line of reasoning as to why I'm not personally holding rallies in the street protesting against the thug black culture that as infected our race and kills our children by the hundreds every year. It's not my fault that so many black people act like that, why do I have to take my time and go out and deal with it? I just want to live my life as a normal US citizen and it shouldn't be my responsibility to police up the black culture just because Im black too. Just because I'm not gathering black people to protest in the streets against thugs doesn't mean I support the gangsta culture. It simply means I have a life of my own, a stressful job with long hours, and a family to raise. It's not my responsibility to deal with them just because they happened to have the same color skin as I do. Perhaps many American Muslims feel the same way about Radical Islam.
Let us look at facts. We imposed ourselves upon the muslims. Given their religious beliefs, they reacted in the traditional manner, by coming after us. Now, even though we started this rift with them, we begin to hate them for doing the exact same thing we would have done, if they had done to use, what we did to them. It's insanity, but this entire world is insane, operating outside of logic and reason. Yet Islam has not evolved, as Christianity evolved, out of waging war for religious reasons. Islam, particular sects of it, is still spread at the edge of the sword. Yet Christianity's history is identical in this regard, which of course they eventually evolved out of. Christianity for a long time was the world's most dangerous religion. Islam replaced it. But they are not as old as Christianity, so perhaps they will evolve out of the militant side of that religion, as Christianity finally did. Of course if not for oil, the west would not have imposed themselves upon Islamic nations, and we would not be having the problem today. So, we are one of the reasons for radical islam, and their hatred for us. Not much happens in a vacuum, although few are intelligent enough to recognize such a basic fact.
I'm just tired of the "Well it's only a very small minority of Muslims that carry out extremist acts" argument. The silent majority allows these things to happen, you know the same way Germany did when the Nazi's took power. The more they allow the minority to do what they please the more of a threat the entire group becomes.
the majority of Muslims are very afraid to confront the small extremist minority. aren't you? do you want your head chopped off? i sure dont
So you're saying they should just sit back and do nothing? I figured such a response from you, nothing out of the ordinary. (Btw, if extremism in this country boils to that point, I'll be at the forefront standing against it.)
