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Originally Posted by Simon Rochelle
Where kilroy got it wrong was he said all muslims are terrorists, what he should of said was 'not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims'. its not a nice thing to say, however, it is fact, and it is this fact which breeds mistrust among peoples.
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I think that's not quite as accurate as you portray it. Many terrorists that we hear about *now* may be Muslims is a fact, but there have been many terrorist groups in the past that have no connection with Islam.
Also the word "terrorism" tends to mask the fact that these people are, by their lights, fighting a war against the West, but since they don't have the tanks and bombers etc that we have, they are fighting in the only way available to them.
That is not, of course, to say that I approve of their tactics, but, by the same token, I don't approve of the tactics that we in the West have used either!
Unfortunately we tend to get things shown to us in a very black and white way, we're the good guys, they're the baddies, what we do is right, what they do is wrong, but the fact of the matter is that things aren't as simple as that and just because we disagree with them doesn't mean we have the automatic right to step in and change things to our liking.