I am really weary of people that equate ISIS with every thing Islamic……it just isn’t so…..these people go off the deep end when they hear the word Muslim and into a world of lies and misinformation……they paint a whole religion with a broad brush of hate……
Keep in mind those hijackers that hit NYC and Washington did more than hijack planes….they hijacked an entire religion.
Ever sense that day the word Muslim is equated with every thing extreme…..it is wrong and does nothing constructive…..it feeds hatred.
And thanx to that hatred will not let any news to the contrary to their lies get out…….I for one will not bend to the disgusting hatred spread by mental midgets!
Sorry to pee on anyone’s bigotry….but there are liberal Muslims…you seldom here about them because the media does not want them known…..these liberals are for women’s rights, democracy, peace, etc….all the same things that liberal democracies claim is their agenda.
There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world….and let’s say that 1 million are fundamentalist toads…that is about 0.01% (one tenth of a percent)….and yet the world has condemned a whole religion for a minuscule amount of followers…..
It is just wrong on so many levels……hatred and bigotry condemns an entire religion…..and the average person helps spread the hate….I have given people my thoughts after I lived and worked in the Middle East…..most times it is met with sarcasm and insulting condescension…..making me think how someone that has never met a Muslim in person…..knows the religion inside out……
These people I try to ignore for they get their “information” from moronic sources like WND and Glen Beck and a wealth of other bigots……sadly these idiots speak for so many that know so much less than they pretend.
I understand the concern……but one can have concern without degrading a religion and its followers.
And when a christian commits a terrible crime because his believes, he’s just a single person?
So true and so wrong….
Indeed.
How many black panthers were thete at the height of the movement?
Would that be the original or the New Black Panther party?
Sorry what did that have to do with the post? Since the Black Panthers were not a Muslim group….
Numbers don’t reflect the impact of an organized few.
Do the 7 Muslims who’ve been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize include Obama? If not, make it eight!
Gee you sound like one of our Right wing nuts….but I do not think he counts….LOL
I couldn’t agree more with your post. I have known and worked with many Muslims and not one of them ever attempted to convert or push their religion on anyone. As a matter of fact they are terrific people that I am proud to call friends. It seems that some of the people that commented on this piece are blatantly ignorant, which is very sad. Great post.
Thank you Dom…..I lived with a Palestinian family and could never find a family that was more generous and friendly than them….their son was my interpreter and he was my closet friend…..
And that type of generosity is more than likely the norm for the Palestinian people and not the behavior of Hamas. As in every religious group there are good and bad its just commonsense which some people seem to have lost.
Yes it was the norm…..actually it was so in all the countries I lived in Jordan, Iraq (pre-1990), Syria, Morocco (not as good as the others)…..
It’s a well established fact that people with less tend to give more of what they have…and vice-versa. Part of it is out of sympathy. Part of it is out of submissiveness, like a dog rolling over and showing its belly.
So it’s to be expected that Palestinians will be more giving than, say, some of their richer neighbours in the region. Not too many rich Palestinians (not working for political/military/criminal organizations) rolling round in the Arab hood.
It the organizations with vested interests in keeping conflict going (their own versions of our Military Industrial Spy Complex) that are the single biggest stumbling blocks to peace. Religions can be part of that, or they can be the victim of it.
In Islam’s case, it’s both. And people have a really hard time grasping that because we’re trained to see whole peoples as “Good” or “Evil” by the very people with the most to gain from keeping us fighting.