Shimmer
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I'm not worried about the media walking into a courtyard and detonating a bomb.
I'm not worried about Ted Koppel attacking me. Ted Koppel hasn't ever done shyte to me. Neither has Anderson Cooper, Mike Wallace, or Meredith Viera.
They've never attacked American civilians, they've never incited riots, they've never discharged a weapon in the midst of a crowd, they've never strapped bombs onto a nine year old and shoved him into a marketplace.
I will agree that good stories don't get ratings. They don't sell. But...
By the same token, the moderate Muslims of the world need to bring their voice above the cacophony of the riots, beheadings, bombings, hijackings, mortarings, honor killings, executions, jihads, calls for jihads, etc.
To say that a HUGE number of the people professing to follow the faith are not that faith, when indeed, the numbers were really revealed across the world with the Dutch cartoon debacle as to how many Muslims will rise to violence, and call for death and send death threats and incite riots and create mayhem etc. is somewhat unfathomable to me.
We're not talking about factions that are relatively small compared to the overall picture here...we're not talking about the Westboro Baptist Church in comparison to Christianity, we're not talking about Waco in comparison to Christianity, we're not talking about Warren Jeffs in comparison to Mormonism...those, and the groups like them, are a very very small sampling of people claiming to be Christian, in comparison to the worldwide and overwhelmingly high faction of people claiming to be Muslim and commiting violent acts.
Are all Muslims gun carrying bomb wearing maniacs? OF COURSE NOT. And, I never said they were.
Why should Muslims attempt to change the perception? Because until they do, that's all the rest of the world has. All the rest of the world has is images of violence, fires, beheadings, and terrorist acts. Because until the moderate Muslims work, hard, to change that perception, the rest of the world has NOTHING ELSE to go off of.
Originally Posted by mena22787
oh dear, more American media here to blame. are you sure that Muslim communities don't speak out against these attacks? or are you just assuming that b/c media doesn't show you that?? Muslims in the US and the ME, both loudly express their outrage and anger of terrorist attacks and do not tolerate such things. their religion teaches peace, so why would they condone such things? why should only Muslim communities reach out and change other's perceptions of Muslims? seems to me like it would make them seem guilty. everyone should help change these perceptions. and i wasn't aware that the whole Muslim community was screaming about the unfairness of profiling at airports. |
I'm not worried about the media walking into a courtyard and detonating a bomb.
I'm not worried about Ted Koppel attacking me. Ted Koppel hasn't ever done shyte to me. Neither has Anderson Cooper, Mike Wallace, or Meredith Viera.
They've never attacked American civilians, they've never incited riots, they've never discharged a weapon in the midst of a crowd, they've never strapped bombs onto a nine year old and shoved him into a marketplace.
I will agree that good stories don't get ratings. They don't sell. But...
By the same token, the moderate Muslims of the world need to bring their voice above the cacophony of the riots, beheadings, bombings, hijackings, mortarings, honor killings, executions, jihads, calls for jihads, etc.
To say that a HUGE number of the people professing to follow the faith are not that faith, when indeed, the numbers were really revealed across the world with the Dutch cartoon debacle as to how many Muslims will rise to violence, and call for death and send death threats and incite riots and create mayhem etc. is somewhat unfathomable to me.
We're not talking about factions that are relatively small compared to the overall picture here...we're not talking about the Westboro Baptist Church in comparison to Christianity, we're not talking about Waco in comparison to Christianity, we're not talking about Warren Jeffs in comparison to Mormonism...those, and the groups like them, are a very very small sampling of people claiming to be Christian, in comparison to the worldwide and overwhelmingly high faction of people claiming to be Muslim and commiting violent acts.
Are all Muslims gun carrying bomb wearing maniacs? OF COURSE NOT. And, I never said they were.
Why should Muslims attempt to change the perception? Because until they do, that's all the rest of the world has. All the rest of the world has is images of violence, fires, beheadings, and terrorist acts. Because until the moderate Muslims work, hard, to change that perception, the rest of the world has NOTHING ELSE to go off of.
Just avoid friggen Mickey-D's.
