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Originally Posted by docbungle
I mean, everyone watches the news. They know what is being said about them. And even normal, peacefull muslims (the ones that could help, if they wanted) see the light in which we (or our press) view them. I can understand why they don't jump at the chance to take a stand with the U.S. against their violent brethren
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Had they done so to start then we wouldn't have had such views. There are plenty of friendly outlets for them to speak their minds, yet most are silent. Some I'm sure are intimidated by their murderous brethren, but we see little from them even in countries where they should be safe to speak their mind.
I know enough peaceful muslims to know that while they are not willing to die as terrorists, they support the idea behind it. These were very highly educated muslims, from all over the mideast who I worked with closely for 3 years. They were very nice, but I also saw their reactions to 9/11, and heard what they thought of israel. Its here that I decided that there really was no hope for peace until there was a very large pile of bodies. If I was with some of the best educated, with people who spent years in the US and other western nations, some for over 10 years, and yet they still felt this way, I had to despair as to what the average citizen of their nations thought.
You won’t see muslim outrage over terrorism because they are not upset by it, unlike a cartoon or a pope quoting a guy dead for 600 years, thats worth being outraged over.