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When Muslims get rid of their sharia laws, stop being intolerant to other faiths/religion/culture, stop attacking, stop flying planes into buildings, stop shoveling their religions to others, stop wearing burqas/niqabs/hijabs - then they will be considered part of the west
Xan you name any other time besides 9/11 when 19 men hijacked 4 planes flew planes into 3 buildings any other Muslims have done the same?
Here in the USA there have been non-Muslims who have done the same,
There is no Islam of Woodrow. there is only one Islam, but we are very individualistic. The majority of us are very moderate and very quiet.
We do have our share of trouble makers.
The percentage of us that are trouble makers is probably no higher a percentage than any other group of people. but sadly, our trouble makers have almost unlimited access to munitions. Much of which was left behind by Russian and Nato forces. Take a person with a predisposistion for violence and it is a recipe for disaster.
This is supremely irrelevant and fundamentally misleading, Wood. It is disingenuous to even suggest that your version of Islam has any correspondence with the Islam that is projected to the world. Sorry . . . but your moderate views are NOT typical and they certainly do NOT have any global clout. As long as the radicals dominate and threaten the world globally with resources and reach . . . your version of Islam is irrelevant.
As a Muslim, I voted IT DEPENDS simply because Islam is interpreted differently by different people. Just like Catholics have different views on the Bible and GOD than Protestants (of which there are many denominations), Islam has different sects and denominations that have different views on various topics.
Is the Saudi version of Islam compatible with Western values? HELL NAW! Shi'a Nizari Muslim values? Most certainly yes!
As a Muslim, I voted IT DEPENDS simply because Islam is interpreted differently by different people. Just like Catholics have different views on the Bible and GOD than Protestants (of which there are many denominations), Islam has different sects and denominations that have different views on various topics.
Is the Saudi version of Islam compatible with Western values? HELL NAW! Shi'a Nizari Muslim values? Most certainly yes!
I think that is an error many people make. Even as a Sunni that follows the Hanafi Madhab I have many differences from the Hanbali Madhab followed by Saudi.
People stereotype us and fail to see the individuality among us. But, we are all of the same Ummah.
On January 5, 2002, just four months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 15-year-old amateur pilot Charles Bishop stole a Cessna plane and flew into the Bank of America building in Downtown Tampa
Global Times - Plane flown into US tax office
A Texas pilot with an apparent grudge against the US government flew his single-engine plane into a tax office building Thursday, leaving two dead and 13 wounded and setting off a huge fireball, AFP reported.
San Juan (AP) -- A former schoolteacher crashed a small plane into a Roman Catholic church Friday, destroying it and an adjoining cafeteria.
Woodrow all of the instances of the planes being crashed into the buildings were absolutely unacceptable but the death and devastation were not the same as what happened with the twin towers.
Over 3000+ people were killed and in each plane innocent people were kidnapped and made to die as the planes were crashed into the buildings.
On January 5, 2002, just four months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 15-year-old amateur pilot Charles Bishop stole a Cessna plane and flew into the Bank of America building in Downtown Tampa
Global Times - Plane flown into US tax office
A Texas pilot with an apparent grudge against the US government flew his single-engine plane into a tax office building Thursday, leaving two dead and 13 wounded and setting off a huge fireball, AFP reported.
San Juan (AP) -- A former schoolteacher crashed a small plane into a Roman Catholic church Friday, destroying it and an adjoining cafeteria.
Woodrow all of the instances of the planes being crashed into the buildings were absolutely unacceptable but the death and devastation were not the same as what happened with the twin towers.
Over 3000+ people were killed and in each plane innocent people were kidnapped and made to die as the planes were crashed into the buildings.
The incidents you gave us killed about 3 people.
True but the point was the number of terrorists involved. While the damage was horrendous, it did not take many people to do it.
Because the damage was greater does not necessarily mean a larger percentage of Muslims are terrorists.
ADDED: While the view is Muslims fly planes into Buildings about the same number of Plane attacks in the USA were done by non-Muslims. I keep see it posted "when Muslims stop flying planes into buildings" like we do that on a regular basis. It was a one day act by terrorists and not a practice of Islam.
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True but the point was the number of terrorists involved. While the damage was horrendous, it did not take many people to do it.
Because the damage was greater does not necessarily mean a larger percentage of Muslims are terrorists.
ADDED: While the view is Muslims fly planes into Buildings about the same number of Plane attacks in the USA were done by non-Muslims. I keep see it posted "when Muslims stop flying planes into buildings" like we do that on a regular basis. It was a one day act by terrorists and not a practice of Islam.
Again Woodrow my issue is instead of saying it was horrific and leaving it at that there is the need to say: well non Muslims did the same thing. My point is not to say that a larger percentage of Muslims are terrorists because the 9/11 damage was greater. My issues is the magnitude of the devastation and death.
Surely you are correct they did but there is no comparison between the death of 3 vs 3000+
That is my issue. I agree they were all wrong and I don't think that the actions of those who committed 9/11 ought to be visited on all Muslims. But I do have issue that it needs to become a deflection.
None of it is justified, it is all horrific. I also agree with what you are saying that non muslims have committed acts of terrorism.
Again Woodrow my issue is instead of saying it was horrific and leaving it at that there is the need to say: well non Muslims did the same thing. My point is not to say that a larger percentage of Muslims are terrorists because the 9/11 damage was greater. My issues is the magnitude of the devastation and death.
Surely you are correct they did but there is no comparison between the death of 3 vs 3000+
That is my issue. I agree they were all wrong and I don't think that the actions of those who committed 9/11 ought to be visited on all Muslims. But I do have issue that it needs to become a deflection.
None of it is justified, it is all horrific. I also agree with what you are saying that non muslims have committed acts of terrorism.
I do agree the amount of damage is not comparable.
The main issue I have is the flying of airplanes into buildings is not an every day event. The statement the poster made was to the effect "When Muslims stop flying planes into buildings" it is not a common practice by Muslims and nearly as many planes have been flown into American buildings by non-Muslims, 2 of them after 9/11. The poster's statement was no more pertinent then it would be to say "When non-Muslims stop flying planes into buildings"
Muslims Flying planes into buildings is not a frequent occurrence and has not been repeated since 9/11.
let's start with sharia law, the is no seperation of church/mosque & state under sharia law...
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islam is a horrible ideology for human rights
