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Put yourself into the mindset of a moderate Muslim living in France. There are already laws against burkas, and restrictions on your religion. You know intelligence officers are monitoring mosques. You know that there is a growing anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim movement, that has been gaining ground politically. Recent events have fed that anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim movement. So, a fear that you will be discriminated against, profiled, deported, or even attacked by anti-immigration extremists, and that no one will defend you, is a credible fear.
I have to say that they brought this on themselves over the years by their SILENCE.
Sit by and do nothing but say "Well it's just a few radicals" while innocent people get murdered in cold blood in the name of their religion ?
Those now fearful moderates are like the 90% of the non Nazi Germans that sat quietly and let millions of Jews get murdered. They are just as guilty.
And the 90% of Germans that did not belong to the Nazi party sat by idly while 11 million Jews got murdered.
Silence is not always a virtue.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
I think the demonization of Muslims is evil. To make sweeping generalizations about all Muslims, how they act, what they believe, who they hate, is wrong. They are like us. They love their children. They want to get ahead, they want their children to have better lives than they have had, they want to go to bed at night with no fear. That some have adopted an extremist version of their faith is something they dislike, the same way Christians dislike when other Christians adopt an extremist version of Christianity. That some use the faith of Islam to justify violence and war and killing horrifies Muslims. And we KNOW this. So many Muslims have renounced the violence in Paris, have spoken to newspapers, governments have issued statements condemning it.
I have to say that they brought this on themselves over the years by their SILENCE.
Sit by and do nothing but say "Well it's just a few radicals" while innocent people get murdered in cold blood in the name of their religion ?
Those now fearful moderates are like the 90% of the non Nazi Germans that sat quietly and let millions of Jews get murdered. They are just as guilty.
I have to say that they brought this on themselves over the years by their SILENCE.
Sit by and do nothing but say "Well it's just a few radicals" while innocent people get murdered in cold blood in the name of their religion ?
Those now fearful moderates are like the 90% of the non Nazi Germans that sat quietly and let millions of Jews get murdered. They are just as guilty.
Once again, excellent comment. I tried to rep you but C-D says I have to spread it around before rep'ing you again
My thought on this is - if there was a group of purple oompa loompas going around terrorizing people all over the world, and other purple oompa loompas found ways to justify these actions, even if not all of them took part - purple oompa loompas would be treated with extreme prejudice. It's called a survival instincts.
But go ahead and feel free to label it otherwise.
Other purple oompa loompas aren't justifying these actions.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
I think the demonization of Muslims is evil. To make sweeping generalizations about all Muslims, how they act, what they believe, who they hate, is wrong. They are like us. They love their children. They want to get ahead, they want their children to have better lives than they have had, they want to go to bed at night with no fear. That some have adopted an extremist version of their faith is something they dislike, the same way Christians dislike when other Christians adopt an extremist version of Christianity. That some use the faith of Islam to justify violence and war and killing horrifies Muslims. And we KNOW this. So many Muslims have renounced the violence in Paris, have spoken to newspapers, governments have issued statements condemning it.
Yeah..too little too late. Go back 10-15 years and tell me how they publicly condemned their fellow Muslims that went radical.
I have to say that they brought this on themselves over the years by their SILENCE.
Sit by and do nothing but say "Well it's just a few radicals" while innocent people get murdered in cold blood in the name of their religion ?
Those now fearful moderates are like the 90% of the non Nazi Germans that sat quietly and let millions of Jews get murdered. They are just as guilty.
‘To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all’
― Elie Wiesel
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