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I mean no disrespect here, but the Terrorist threat is very real in Britain. They have many acticve cells over there hiding behind the religious freedom facade. There have been documented videos made where they are openly promoting "Jihads" against westeners to include the US. I'm not saying that we should live in a paranoid state of mind, but we should not turn a blind eye to those extremist Muslim groups either.
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The terrorist threat is real in Britain, as it is here in the US as well. I don't believe any rational person, including those of the Muslim faith, would say that we should turn a blind eye to extremist Muslim groups.
They can be and are very dangerous. Constant vigilance is necessary. But making a whole group out as terrorists is not.
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I'm of the mindset that many a crazy person hides behind the "Religious" freedom afforded them by our desire to show tolerance to that which we do not understand. The sad thing about this is that by doing so we are are basically setting ourselves up for failure.
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Many a crazy person does hide behind religious freedom. Not only Muslims but Christians, too.
But often we are NOT showing tolerance to that which we do not understand, hence, this thread. People do not understand Muslims, have no idea what the average Muslim is all about, what they believe; they don't know any muslims, they hear Muslim and automatically think of 9/11 and terrorists. When in reality MOST Muslims are not terrorists.
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I have no dislike for Muslims, Jewish people, or any other religious sect. If they are all teaching or preaching that God (in whatever form they see him or her as) wants his people to be kind and caring to one another I see no reason not to be tolerant.
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Excellent!
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I will say this, there are far more suicide bombers in the middle east killing not only themselves, but women, men, and innocent children for the sake of thier beliefs then there are anywhere else in the world.
If you look at history, they have been doing this longer than we (The US) have had our hands in thier business. These actions are designed to create that "Fear" that so many in this thread talk about. Then the News Media dwells on stories such as these and replays these stories numerous times throughout the day. Is it any wonder that westerners are afraid?
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I am not sure what you are trying to say here? That we have had our hands in their business for only a short period of time and therefore we have nothing to do with what is happening in the Middle East? Before we had our hands in their business, another Super power did, Great Britain.
Before anyone had their hands in their business, there were not suicide bombings killing innocent people.
What exactly do you mean by that comment?
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I say that education is the key, but its really hard to educate oneself when each news station puts its own spin on what happened and fails to report "Just the Facts".
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Agreed, which is why we cannot depend on the media for information.
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I do care what goes on in Britain/England, Canada, and any other country that is US freindly. We need to care because if we shut ourselves out of whats going on elsewhere, we expose ourselves to more events such as 911 (God rest thier souls).
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I for one am not advocating shutting ourselves out to what is going on around the world. But shutting ourselves out of what's going on elsewhere is not the only way we are exposing ourselves to more events such as 9/11. Our policies have something to do with it as well.
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I dont want them to assimilate completely, because then they lose thier ability to see where they come from and who they were. (We forced the American Indians to assimilate and they lost a big part of thier history and tribal customs) I only ask that while living, working and functioning here in the US, they abide by our laws and respect the rights of others. Whats tolerant in thier country may not be tolerant in ours. If they choose not to respect that, they are free to go back to wherever it is that they came from. If they are born here and dislike this country, the cool thing about being here is you are always free to go elsewhere.
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My sentiments exactly.
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Thanks for clearing that up for me. 
