quote:Originally posted by violet Blue Horse:
What amazes me these days is that people everywhere feel perfectly comfortable about standing around in a room full of people and mouth statements that are blatantly prejudiced and full of hate. It used to be that prejudice was bad and tolerance of others beliefs and life choices was good. It used to be that mouthing blatantly prejudiced statements in public was not done, no matter what your personal thoughts were.
I find it depressingly sad that prejudice won out over tolerance.
Islam is not an inherently violent religion. The Middle East however IS an inherently violent realm. It has been since the time of Teddy Roosevelt. The politics of the region are to blame, not the religion. Blame the individuals responsible, whom ever you think that might be, but do not blame a religion that boasts many beauties and truths.
And what amazes me is that people want to be so poltically correct that they cannot accept the truth if that truth detracts from their rose colored "everyone is lovely, everything is equal" view of the world.
. You cannot bring up the middle east and then dismiss the fact that it is primarily Islamic. The politics of the region are directly tied to the religion; it has a huge influence on the people there. One can't blame a region for violence as if somehow a geographic area can itself be inherently prone to savagery. Israel is a part of the middle east too. How many Israeli homicide bombers are there? How many Israelis are blowing up airplanes? Of course, when Israel defends itself, some folks try draw a moral equivilant between her actions and the terrorists, but Israel never takes action except out of self defense.
Also, Islamic fundamentalist terrorism stretches far beyond the middle east. It is present all over the world, including Africa, Bali and the Philipines to name a few places. As i said before, it is not all of Islam , nor all muslims that practice terrorism. But to deny that there is more than just a little support for it in the Islamic world or that the majority of organized terrorism today is tied to Islamic extremism is to blantently deny reality.
Erica
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