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Ben_Reilly wrote:That is amazing. Hopefully this time, the message of thousands of Muslims heeding the call to peace will prevail in the media storylines, instead of the usual "othering" and making them into the bogeyman that we're supposed to be afraid of.

I was recently thinking of posting a mock story here but decided against it -- the title was going to be, "Billions of Muslims Peacefully Go About Their Lives."

Because for every one Muslim who makes headlines with an act of violence, there are millions of others who went through their day working, helping their neighbors, providing for their families, and doing no harm to anyone.

Just like for every sensationalist story here in the U.S. about one illegal immigrant from Mexico committing a crime, there are millions who are here legally, who are just as American as any other American, and who are quietly putting their noses to the grindstone every day to help the country keep running.

Didge wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:That is amazing. Hopefully this time, the message of thousands of Muslims heeding the call to peace will prevail in the media storylines, instead of the usual "othering" and making them into the bogeyman that we're supposed to be afraid of.

I was recently thinking of posting a mock story here but decided against it -- the title was going to be, "Billions of Muslims Peacefully Go About Their Lives."

Because for every one Muslim who makes headlines with an act of violence, there are millions of others who went through their day working, helping their neighbors, providing for their families, and doing no harm to anyone.

Just like for every sensationalist story here in the U.S. about one illegal immigrant from Mexico committing a crime, there are millions who are here legally, who are just as American as any other American, and who are quietly putting their noses to the grindstone every day to help the country keep running.

Agreed Ben, but what odds do you wanna lay on the first person to say "its only a few"?

This is the sad part, you have the likes of some posters never seeing the fact many Muslims are against extremists, many Muslims by far are the victims themselves of Muslim extremists, where again people use any reason to scapegoat and stereotype groups with blame and fear and it is only united together as nations, that will show to the extremists their goal with fail, just as the far right goal will fail. Both want to sow the seed of discontent and start conflicts and as stated standing united against them, denies them any chance of this happening.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Didge wrote:


Agreed Ben, but what odds do you wanna lay on the first person to say "its only a few"?

This is the sad part, you have the likes of some posters never seeing the fact many Muslims are against extremists, many Muslims by far are the victims themselves of Muslim extremists, where again people use any reason to scapegoat and stereotype groups with blame and fear and it is only united together as nations, that will show to the extremists their goal with fail, just as the far right goal will fail. Both want to sow the seed of discontent and start conflicts and as stated standing united against them, denies them any chance of this happening.

Too true. We have many conservatives here in the U.S. who will casually contend that no Muslim ever said a thing after the 9/11 attacks, even though tje attacks actually were condemned by most quarters within the Muslim world. (Interestingly, even Saddam Hussein quietly sent his condolences, something hardly anybody acknowledges.)

I just think that Muslims present too irresistible a scapegoat to the bigoted sort of person in the West. Muslims have a different language, different religion, different complexion and different culture, so it's all too easy for the small-minded to make them all into the bad guy, and they'll continually insist that you and I are wrong, despite my excellent relations with my Muslim neighbor here in Texas.

They're the same sort of people as Ann Coulter, who I posted about the other day. She insists that if you have a great-grandfather who was born in the U.S., there is no way you have an interest in the World Cup. I have great-great-great-grandfathers who were born here and I've hardly missed a game, so according to her, I don't exist.

Ben_Reilly wrote:Yeah, her column is riddled with bigotry and ignorance. I may have actually taken more offense to the ignorance than the bigotry, actually:

http://www.newsfixboard.com/t5479-another-american-conservative-is-pissed-off-about-soccer

Didge wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Yeah, her column is riddled with bigotry and ignorance. I may have actually taken more offense to the ignorance than the bigotry, actually:

http://www.newsfixboard.com/t5479-another-american-conservative-is-pissed-off-about-soccer

  

Seriously, how is there people like this in the world today?   

BigAndy9 wrote:I hear there were some associated with the Nazi's who were against slaughtering the Jews and invading neighbouring countries.

We still wiped the Nazi's out and have banned the word Hitler and anything to do with the Nazi's.

When will we be forced to do the same again?

Ben_Reilly wrote:Apparently, none of these Yanks fans in Grant Park, Illinois had great-grandfathers who were born in the U.S.