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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
One thing I do find happening much more nowadays is that people are targeting muslims in the same manner as is deemed unacceptable to target, say black people.
If I went around and said that all black young men are knife weilding drug dealers (based on my personal experiences in south London) then I would rightly be branded some sort of racist and my views wouldn't be acceptable. However I do find more and more people judging the whole Muslim community based on the actions of a relative minority within the community itself. People think they can get away with it because they are not being racist (as a religion is not a race so you can't be being racist - views echoed in this forum aswell). I personal think its the same thing, because most people I know that voice anti Muslim views are directing it towards the asian/brown skinned people whom they believe to be Muslim.
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You do here a lot of people saying stuff like:
"If they don't like it they shouldnt come here"
from people who think all muslims are immigrants
or the classic:
"But if we went to their country, we wouldnt be given any rights" which presumes all muslims are immigrants, presumes all immigrants come from a country run by an oppresive muslim government, but also that all muslims are responsible and accountible for what these governments do.
People are simply stupid sometimes and given the culture at the moment people will not protect the rights of muslims/asians as much as they would black people. I know there are people on this forum who air the view constantly that muslims are all violent and wish to convert the entire globe to islam via jihad.
The best thing Muslims could do to fight this is make it clear that the majority deplore terrorism. The media do not cover it as much as they cover any western protests (they cover muslims protests a lot no matter how small the number) but eventually more and more people will get the message. Islamic terrorism was given a massive boost after 9/11 especially with Bush given them excellent recuriting power by making them seem a bigger and more
dangerous entity than they were at that time.
It is however a bigger danger to your religion than our countries and is a war within Islam, and other Muslims are the best way to fight it. It's a shame that the press and some parts of the population do not seem to spot this and are content to increase the sepration with the west that would cause impressionible and angry young muslims to join terrorist groups