why are people so racist to muslims after 9/11?
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Study our recent U.S. history (20 years) and you will discover that more than 95% of our terrorist attacks and wars are against Muslims, and that they are the instigators of such activities.\n\nOR -\n\nStudy religion.  What are the Muslim faith doctrines ... OOPS!  "Death to all infidels!!!" (you are an infidel if you are not a muslim).\n\nNot all religions preach violence; you mentioned Christianity in your question, as I understand it christians preach peace, hope and love.\n\nOR -\n\nStudy Ancient History.  As far back as you would care to travel in time you will find the muslims at the heart of conflict from their very inception as a family, then tribe, then nation, then world religion.\n\nOR -\n\nStudy sociology.  Muslims view of life does understand that what you 'believe is true, is true' regardless of how other individuals or nations regard truth.  The driving force in Muslims lives is their religion because they clearly see that it is their belives that give meaning to life (and direction for their life choices).\n\nMeet a devote muslim and you will meet a person that has NO tolerance for anyone who does not believe exactly as they do. \n\nThis is true of very few of the 5000+ religions in the world.\n\nIn my opinion, muslims are just like you and me (hopefully), individulas that in the U.S. have the right to their thoughts and beliefs as long as they are not hurting others.  BUT therein lies the problem.\n\nThe scottish have a saying "Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me."\n\nWhy are people racist . . .
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People hate Islam, because the media makes them hate Islam, 'whynotaskdon', you are racist, and the Holy Koran is the most pure, most untouched book in the Universe. \n\nTerrorists blowed up the twin towers, was it really terrorists, or an excuse by the U.S. Government to wage their wars against Muslims? \n\nThe U.S. Government is hitting two birds with one stone, they don't like Muslims so they are killing them, they wan't/ need oil, so they are taking that too. \n\nTHE MEDIA IS A POWERFUL WEAPON\n\nI am a Muslim and have to admit their are some extremists in Islam, like in most religions. But what are the percentage of the extremists? 0.000001 % ?\n\nPeople judge billions of people over a few people. You are not to blame, the Media is the ones to blame, they are supposed to give a biased view, but they are doing everything but that.\n\nI as, a Muslim have respect for the People of the Book* and their followers, even if i don't agree with all the things that is said. \n\nI have respect for people who follow their religion honestly.
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Because they seem to have the medias ear after 9/11. Also political correctness means every one needs to be labeled these days as somthing or other.
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It needs to be pointed out at the beginning: prejudice against Muslims is not "racism."  Islam is a religion, not a race.\n\nThat said, yes, I believe it is understandable, in the sense that it is easy to understand why it happens.  The troublemakers and extremists in the Muslim world are trying very hard to convince the rest of the world that they speak for all Muslims.  To the extent that they accomplish that, they succeed in painting a picture of Muslims IN GENERAL as bloodthirsty, intolerant, xenophobic, irrational, repressive, and hair-trigger violent.  \n\nThis may not be the case for all Muslims, but it is the case for the extremists, and they are tarring all the others with the same brush.
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It is a good question, and something that I as a muslim, get very upset about.\n\nFirstly as I am sure you know Islam Completely against Violence.\n\nI think we as muslims do not do enough to make this clear to non- muslims. And we let the fanatics takes over Islam.\n\nThere is a victim mentality, that is always blaming somebody else for what is going wrong. Also there is a problem that muslims to not like to criticise other muslims, even if there are doing something totally wrong.\n\nI live in England, and I have muslim friends who will not condemn the suicide bombers in London because they are muslim, and they say they must have right reasons in their mind for that act. \n\nMany people protest about the Americans in Iraq, quite rightly, but more muslims are killed by other muslims like Zarqawi. I don't see too many people outside Iraq rushing to protest against his actions. Most people are against is actions but why are they quiet. He is as big a evil as Bush.\n\nFor the cartoons I was against them, and I am lucky to live in a country where they are not published, but by protesting against in the way they proved the cartooners right. (it was unaccept for some muslims to say kill all danish) And why do people not get as upset bu terrorist attacts in the name of Islam?? These are REALLY a blaspheme against god.\nAlso it is very unfortunate that some muslims make simular cartoons against jews. The Iranian newspapers response to run a cartoon about the horoculst was appalling and un Islamic. I sometimes think Muslims have double stands like the their criticise the west as having.\n\n\nThe media DO high light bad behaviour by muslims over good, \nBut we are often to blame because WE donot make our voice strong enough when other muslim do bad things in the name of Islam.\n\nIt is easy to fall in a victim mentality, when people attack us and become defensive. \nBUT it is better for us to PROVE the attackers wrong by confronting people who misuse islam..
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I so agree with you.Even the 9/11 issue still pounding on some ppl..trying to prove all muslims are terrorists theory.Ther's noting wrong with the religion, its just the people.
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Things changed after 9/11 and can you honestly blame people for the fear they have?
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because people are ignorant and believe everything they see in the news. ISLAM is not responsible for the terrorists. Islam represents Peace. There are people who call themselves Christian, but still do horrible things like murder people, etc. Every religion has its bad apples, and it should not just be limited to Islam.
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ive been living in an arab country for 19 years now. neither islam nor muslims call for terrorism. they are good and helpful people. they really dont deserve being called terrorists, and they find it too offensive
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I don't hate Muslims or Islam.\nI do hate terrorists.\nHowever,when Muslims hold global demonstrations because of a cartoon,or sentence someone to death for converting to\nChristanity they show their intolerance toward others.\nThey don't make themselves look good in the process.
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Muslims are afraid of any thing in the human world. It is the main reason why they hate all humans.
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Wrong question to ask---there are too many who have uneducated and bigoted opinions that they will never change.  And, there is no reasoning to their hate.  They just hate.  And, try as I might, I have found you cannot discuss with anyone who's mind is completely shut.\n\nThe news media in the west is most of the problem.  I have used this example before-----the paper says:\n''Muslim man kills 5 on a bus''\n''Man kills 5 on a bus''--not''Christian man kills 5 on a bus''.\n\nPeople tend to believe what they read and not question it.
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Well, it's really not "Arabs" that are causing any "situation" now. Some people assume the terrorists who were responsible for the 9-11 attacks, etc. are Muslims, but that too is overly broad. Most Muslims are peaceful, and only a minority are “fundamentalists” who want to destroy the west. We should remember that the country with the largest Muslim population is Indonesia, and the inhabitants of that country are not “Arabs.” Another large Muslim country is Iran, where the population is Persian, not Arab, and they speak Farsi, not Arabic
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We're not racist to Islam. Also, Islam is not a race. It's a religion. \nWe just hate the extremists who want to see you and me dead because we are Christian.
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Muslim people are strapping bombs to their bodies and blowing up innocent children and adults.  I saw footage of people dancing in the streets whe news of 9/11 was made public.  And the hijackers on the planes that day were all Muslims, at least the words they said were in praise of Allah. \nYou are not telling the truth.
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You made a very good point. We are all varying degrees of the same color, but for the sake of colonization, they had to make distinctions to clarify that "we are better than them, because..." Go do some research on how the whole classification of the races came about. You'll be enlightened by what you find.\n\nRace is just a handy way of justifying/maintaining the power of one group over another, of knowing who to hate. Take what's going on in this country right now, for instance. Attacks on muslims have been primarily, if not totally, on the proverbial "Arab-looking" guys, dark skin, etc. But there are muslims in europe who are regular ol' white guys. Did anyone randomly attack regular looking ol' white guys in the aftermath of 9-11? Nope.\n\nI believe that human beings have an innate need to feel superior to someone else. Some of us are able to surpress that feeling and even understand that we have it. Others have it coursing through their veins. If a radioactive meteor were to smash into the earth tomorrow and turn everyone blue, people with big ears would start trying to dominate people with small ears.
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Not all of us hate the Saudi people. There's a "backlash" effect from the 9/11 tragedy. It's sadly, the result of ignorance about the Islamic faith. Most don't realize that terrorists are to muslims as the KKK is to christianity.