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Many Americans have suggested that more moderate Muslims should stand up to extremists, speak out for tolerance, and apologize for sins committed by their brethren. That’s reasonable advice, and as a moderate myself, I’m going to take it. (Throat clearing.) I hereby apologize to Muslims for the wave of bigotry and simple nuttiness that has lately been directed at you. The venom on the airwaves, equating Muslims with terrorists, should embarrass us more than you. Muslims are one of the last minorities in the United States that it is still possible to demean openly, and I apologize for the slurs.
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Radicals tend to empower radicals, creating a gulf of mutual misunderstanding and anger. Many Americans believe that Osama bin Laden is representative of Muslims, and many Afghans believe that the Rev. Terry Jones (who talked about burning Korans) is representative of Christians. Many Americans honestly believe that Muslims are prone to violence, but humans are too complicated and diverse to lump into groups that we form invidious conclusions about. We’ve mostly learned that about blacks, Jews and other groups that suffered historic discrimination, but it’s still O.K. to make sweeping statements about “Muslims” as an undifferentiated mass.
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I’m sickened when I hear such gentle souls lumped in with Qaeda terrorists, and when I hear the faith they hold sacred excoriated and mocked. To them and to others smeared, I apologize.
But they are just misunderstood Maybe if we sat back and try to be more understanding and be a little more sensitive while they kill our soldiers, and blow up bombs in crowded areas
Many Americans believe that Osama bin Laden is representative of Muslims, and many Afghans believe that the Rev. Terry Jones (who talked about burning Korans) is representative of Christians.
And many Muslim apologists can't understand the difference between mass murder and burning a scrap of paper.
His message will fall on deaf ears - as evidenced by the first couple of responses.
As well it should. There actually are things that wrong and evil and deserve to be denounced. Radical Islam, with the history of intolerance and mass murder fits that category.
The analogy the author quoted in the OP tries to make is comparable to saying all blacks owe whites an apology because just the small portion in the KKK did terrible things to them. Of course there is a difference, the vast majority of white people denounce the KKK, while the same can't be said of mainstream Islam vs. the radicals. Trying to blame the victims for the actions of others (in this case, radical Islam) is just wrong.
The quoted author has his head so far up his arse he can't begin to see daylight.
HOnestly, h ow are we supposed to get along with the muslim world, when muslims don't even get along amongst themselves? Today, in Pakistan, a Sufi shrine was blown up.
HOnestly, h ow are we supposed to get along with the muslim world, when muslims don't even get along amongst themselves? Today, in Pakistan, a Sufi shrine was blown up.
The bigger question is how can we get along with the muslim world when we can't even get along with ourselves?
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