Showing posts with label islamophobia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label islamophobia. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Al Qaeda Populating U.S. With Peaceful 'Decoy Muslims' ?!



If you are offended by this video, you have a poor sense of humor (and sarcasm). This video is obviously satire to point out the irrational fear of all Muslims. Moderate Muslims should not be feared, and I believe the vast majority of Muslims in the United States are moderates. Hell (npi), fundamentalist Christians have been known to be dangerous/offensive, just look at the Westboro Baptist Church (they picket soldiers' funerals with signs like "thank God for dead soldiers" etc.

With that said, I do think that certain beliefs do not mix well inside a secular society, luckily we have a constitution to keep such people in check (not naming names of course). For example, Mormons are not allowed to engage in polygamy, they had to give that up to live in this country (well, unless they live on a secret compound).  

As long as everyones' rights are protected, everything will continue on like clockwork in the United States; as FDR said: "we have nothing to fear but fear itself".

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Pat Condell on American Islamophobia



I have to agree with Pat. You can put phobia on any word, doesn't make it a mental illness. Some fears are good, and fear of radical Islam (suicide bombers, etc.), is very rational considering the amount of violence caused by fundamentalists. This isn't to say that all believers should be thought of as being violent, or extreme. I am referring to the fundamentalist.

You see, much violence is found within certain ancient books (not to name names), anyone that takes those books 100% literal may be incited to violently lash out because of it. Fortunately most people don't, however those that do act barbarically (as they have shown). Many people have committed suicide bombings in the name of Islam, this is a cold-hard fact.

The problem here is labeling. While it is not appropriate to label all Muslims as being terrorists, it is appropriate to label fundamentalism as a problem. Another problem is that the "moderates" are not condemning the fundamentalists. To remain silent is to own it, they must disown the violence if they don't wish to be associated with it (at least in my opinion, otherwise people will have a difficulty in distinguishing the difference). I know not all Muslims support the fundamentalists, and they need to speak out so they are not wrongfully associated with the nutty fringe people.

Another problem are the PC-Nazis constantly looking for people to fit the standard for what they view as 'politically correct'. To ignore this problem is to tolerate it, tolerating fundamentalism will cause blood-shed, and that blood will be on the hands of the PC Nazis that fought for tolerance.