Is "Muslim" Just Another Word For Terrorist?

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

Is "Muslim" Just Another Word For Terrorist?

To judge the world's 1.4 billion Muslims, which live in 57 nations, including 7 million in America, by the acts of a tiny number of fanatics would be the same as judging all Christians by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Instead, we must judge individuals by their actions.

[rustydog]

1. No, obviously not. Muslim is the name of a religious belief...

Otherwise the word Republican would mean every single Republican is a racist white whore beholding to Corporations.

Christian right to life would mean all of them are hypocritical people who support birth but have no compunciton to kill people after you have forced their birth.

Birthers...shit birthers says it all, they are just nuckin' futs.

[Jamastiene]

2. I learned a long time ago from a very unlikely source (in my mind)

that you have to take people one at a time and see who they are and what they stand for. Sometimes you hear the most loving, compassionate, intelligent sage wisdom from a source you would least expect and it surprises you...until you learn to take people one at a time.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

6. Thank you..

"you have to take people one at a time and see who they are and what they stand for."

Beautiful.

[jtuck004]

3. When we lived in Oklahoma City, a white Catholic boy blew up the Federal Building.

There was never a call to ban whites or Catholics from a 1 mile perimeter in the downtown of Oklahoma City. Rather, people looked at the criminals for the criminals they were, and are, and went after them. (A couple of people from Lebanon got beaten up along the way, but the investigation finally got it right).

After 9/11, instead of making our mission the capture of the criminals, we went on a crusade which has had the effect of turning millions of people practicing the Muslim religion into "the enemy". We send our soldiers after one group or another, kill innocents and their children in the process, and encourage widespread discrimination and fear-mongering. We apologize, and deny, and evade the truth all over the place, but looked at from their side it's clear that we have trouble distinguishing our friends from our enemies. Our past president even stood on a podium and said getting the "mastermind" of the 9/11 tragedy wasn't that important. What are the innocents to think?

RW nuts and their media are not the problem, they are a symptom. Until we change these people will have all the ammunition they need to scare the living daylights out of others, christian and non-christian alike.

Makes me wonder if 9/11 would not have happened if the Muslim Community Center and mosques that are being built in other locations had been built 2 decades ago. The sooner those structures are in place the better.

[tammywammy]

4. Only for bigots. n/t

[uppityperson]

5. for bigots and msm it often is.

[Marr]

7. Of course not. But I think it's a mistake to pretend that religion has

has no connection to terrorism. In general, radical fundamentalists enjoy greater influence over societies in the middle east than their Christian counterparts do here-- and we can see the results. You could argue many things from that fact, but to me the most important would be, 'don't let medieval minds run your society'.

[Prometheus Bound]

8. It's very useful for powerful groups interested in war and oil.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

9. Here is the whole piece...

(posted with permission from http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/ )

Powerful opposition is mounting to a proposed 13 story Muslim mosque two blocks from 9/11's ground zero in New York and it's already raging over the construction of Muslim houses of worship across the U.S. Why? The claim is mosques are a tribute to terrorism and an insult to 9/11's victims.

That the ground zero mosque would include "a 9/11 memorial and contemplation space" is beside the point to those who oppose it, for the fast growing premise across America is Muslims are terrorists. Yet when 9/11 hit, Muslims were as stunned as anyone else and most Muslims offered their condolences and assistance.

But the U.S. government ignored them and invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, seeking the blood of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and that of any "terrorist cells." As a result, the U.S. violated its own Constitution, the Geneva Convention and the United Nations Charter, by invading and occupying other nations. It brought wars that have killed or injured or made refugees of millions of Muslims, and orphaned tens of thousands of Muslim children, while thousands of Muslims are held without charge in Guantanamo and elsewhere.

And it isn't only foreign Muslims. American troops, including those who are Muslim, and America's allied troops also have thousands of dead and severely injured soldiers and many of their children are growing up in single parent homes.

To judge the world's 1.4 billion Muslims, which live in 57 nations, including 7 million in America, by the acts of a tiny number of fanatics would be the same as judging all Christians by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Instead, we must judge individuals by their actions.

As a Jew, I remind us all that our Muslim brethren have been with us for 1400 years and that Muslim nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Jordan, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia (where most of the 9/11 terrorists were from) are major U.S. trading partners and allies. Muslims families just want what we all do, peace and justice and opportunities for better lives. They need our support not our suspicion.