I meant to reply the other day and got distracted...
My thinking is that even if every terrorist attack in the developed world in the past 7 years has been committed by a radicalised Moslem, you're still looking at a tiny minority of people among over a billion Moslems worldwide, most of whom are intelligent, rational, wonderful people.
It is fundamentally wrong to fear all of Islam because of the actions and intentions of a violent minority who have distorted their religious ideals to allow for racist, murderous zealotry, just as it would be fundamentally wrong to fear all Christians because of some crazy evangelicals blowing up abortion clinics or lynching black and gay people. It's not what we do.
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Date: 2007-08-09 02:23 am (UTC)My thinking is that even if every terrorist attack in the developed world in the past 7 years has been committed by a radicalised Moslem, you're still looking at a tiny minority of people among over a billion Moslems worldwide, most of whom are intelligent, rational, wonderful people.
It is fundamentally wrong to fear all of Islam because of the actions and intentions of a violent minority who have distorted their religious ideals to allow for racist, murderous zealotry, just as it would be fundamentally wrong to fear all Christians because of some crazy evangelicals blowing up abortion clinics or lynching black and gay people. It's not what we do.