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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I will state again, if I had a forum to communicate to the general Muslim population my concern primarily is with, in many cases, what I would categorize as passive approval-the end result being the small number of extremists defining the entire population. I thought my example artfully illustrated that.
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So your answer to my question is "If only I could tell those muslims to stop letting me think all these tingly things about muslims then I wouldn't have to think all these tingly things about these muslims." Yep, I'm sure all these moderate muslims are just waiting for some random dude from the internet to tell them that he personally doesn't think they've taken a public enough stand against extremism for him to not feel uncomfortable when he sees them dressed all muslim-ey. You should rent one of those planes that spell out messages with smoke. You could have the plane spell out something like "Hey muslims, are we cool?"
As I implied before, your inability to correctly suss out the give and take between cause and effect has nothing to do with muslims. Why should they have to answer for your ignorance of them? Why do you think you understand how muslims feel about islamic extremism? How could you possibly be ignorant of the multitude of muslims who've come out against extremism? Here's a hint: they don't typically end up on Rush.
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No doubt there have been many in the fight against terrorist acts carried out in the name of the religion, but then there are these types of reports:
I don't know if the arrest was proper or not, time will tell - but my outrage is targeted to those who made the attempt, not those trying to find out who was involved. Are we on the same team? Do we have the same goals? I don't know, we need a dialog to gain a better understanding in my opinion. Just as some may have an irrational fear of Muslims, there are Muslims who have an irrational fear of us.
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Who gets the focus of your outrage couldn't be less relevant here. It doesn't matter in the context of this discussion. The fact that you think it does means you've misread me. The fact that you think the situation could be simplified if only you could just sit down and have a dialogue with muslims means you have a fundamental misunderstanding about reality. Really, that doesn't even make sense.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you don't know shit about the situation in Yemen, nor the competence of Yemeni officials or their propensity to arrest someone because they want to appear to be doing something. When one doesn't know shit about a situation, the most advisable course of action is to refrain from comment, lest people assume that you're the type to drone on about things you don't understand.