What about the muslims--even to the present day? Beheading helpless school girls and POWs with dull knives, the overall oppression of women, "honor crimes" that make it ok to kill your daughter or sister for being the victim of rape; genital mutilations, the killing of other muslims who decide for whatever reason not to follow the muslim faith, using babies to blow up cars and markets, killing innocent people including children on airplanes by exploding them into buildings? At least the crusades were hundreds of years ago, what excuse for these 21st century barbarians? Heaven help us all from this "religion of peace".
ariamne, you have to be completely ignorant if you believe that all Muslims are barbaric. Atrocities have been committed in the name of countless religions throughout history; and these atrocities shock the actual religious. Those who carry out violence in the sake of their religion are not religious and should not been used as representatives for that faith. The genuinely faithful are always appalled and insulted by their actions. If a Christian commits a terrible crime and claims they do it for Christianity then it is obvious that their actions are that loony individual’s choice and nothing do to with that faith. That is precisely the same with Islam. Most Muslims throughout the world despise these appalling acts being committed in their name.
Your simple views are obviously the product of the media you are subjected too; the West’s media portrays a very biased view of Muslims and the Middle East. Most people from the Middle East dislike being connected to suicide bombers. Most Muslims in Iraq do not attack American and British soldiers. And you write of Muslims torturing POW; what about the abuse civilians have received from some American and British soldiers? Neither side is perfect and most from each side do not engage in such barbarities.
An element of Islam is not beheading school girls and committing 'honour killings'. These are the policies of men who use religion as their excuse to carry out such horrific acts. Some of my friends who are female and Muslims are extremely proud of their faith and are not under their father's rule. Many Muslim women are deeply offended when ignorant people go around asserting that they are oppressed – in some parts of the world they are, and that does anger me, but this is not a product of religion but of culture (although those in power pretend that what they are doing is religious).
Terrorists claim that what they do is in the name of religion, buts it’s really all about politics and power. If we are going to start saying that all Muslims are terrorists, which you so ignorantly argue, then shall we just start calling all Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland terrorists because of their traditional alliance with nationalists parties who in turn have links with paramilitary groups? And what about the Catholic church who throughout history has committed atrocities. Shall we start to victimise Catholics because of the actions of individuals throughout history?
Heaven help us from people like you, who feel the need to victimise groups of people in society. It was individuals like you who terrorised normal Muslims in their daily lives after 9/11 and 7/7/05. Why don’t you actually pick up the Koran and engage in a conversation with a Muslim before coming out with such offensive drivel.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs - Syrus
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