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This tells me more about your thought processes than about what actually goes on in the world.
Terrorism is a tactic, not a religion, race, or ethnicity. And terrorism is used worldwide by enraged minorities of all stripes.
It's a stereotype that has stuck.
This goes back to 2006: The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other | Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project
Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance. Meanwhile, Muslims in the Middle East and Asia generally see Westerners as selfish, immoral and greedy – as well as violent and fanatical.
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Nothing highlights the divide between Muslims and the West more clearly than their responses to the uproar this past winter over cartoon depictions of Muhammad. Most people in Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey blame the controversy on Western nations’ disrespect for the Islamic religion. In contrast, majorities of Americans and Western Europeans who have heard of the controversy say Muslims’ intolerance to different points of view is more to blame.
This goes back to 2006: The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other | Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project
Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance. Meanwhile, Muslims in the Middle East and Asia generally see Westerners as selfish, immoral and greedy – as well as violent and fanatical.
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Nothing highlights the divide between Muslims and the West more clearly than their responses to the uproar this past winter over cartoon depictions of Muhammad. Most people in Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia and Turkey blame the controversy on Western nations’ disrespect for the Islamic religion. In contrast, majorities of Americans and Western Europeans who have heard of the controversy say Muslims’ intolerance to different points of view is more to blame.
It's a cultural problem. After 9/11, the media really got into it too. We should promote understanding of different viewpoints among all cultures, but instead we racially profile and hate.
It's a cultural problem. After 9/11, the media really got into it too. We should promote understanding of different viewpoints among all cultures, but instead we racially profile and hate.
Like the majority of Americans are critical thinkers.....
We tend to go with emotion.
Just look at the last few posts bashing me for saying what I did.
Emotion over logic or any thinking.
Your post that I first responded to seemed to me to be saying that you thought that terrorism was primarily perpetrated by Muslims these days. I suspect I was not alone in taking your post this way.
Your post that I first responded to seemed to me to be saying that you thought that terrorism was primarily perpetrated by Muslims these days. I suspect I was not alone in taking your post this way.
Glad to hear I was mistaken!
I said that people associate terrorism most closely with Muslims, not Whites, Asians, Mexicans, Blacks.
No different then Mexicans being associated with illegals today.
I was only stating what many articles and studies have reported.
Critical thinking doesn't just happen. Critical thinking comes from a base of knowledge, not your own opinion of how you think the world operates.
Too many posters here go by their own personal opinions which is not necessarily the same as respected research organizations say.
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