and things like this are probably why people don't. I am not for anyone or against anyone. But there are 2 sides to every argument or story. The Americans aren't wrong all the time and neither are the Muslims. No one is right in this. You have to try to understand both sides and see where they are coming from.
List of Islamic Terror Attacks in America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...inst_Americans
I think what we need to realize is that there are attacks against everyone, some more so than others but no one has gone without being attacked. Muslims get attacked wrongly for just being Muslim and Christians get attacked just for being Christian. Those who don't believe in any religion get attacked also. No one is just letting the other be, lumping all Muslims together is wrong just as lumping all Christians together is wrong just as lumping all non believers ( whatever the politically correct term is) is wrong. There are extremists in every religion and it brings a bad name to that religion. That is wrong...
So what's the other side to the stories I posted?Originally Posted by cosmo99
Lol They both are Americans. That slip right there I think reflects a lot of how a lot of people feel, that these Muslims aren't Americans.
????? Point of the links, esp. the last one? I was posting recent news stories, not archives, but I could do that too. Get a little Crusades up, possibly a dash of Puritans , and sprinkle some KKK attacks on top.
A link war would be fun but I really don't have that much time. You completely missed the whole point, which is that everyone has been attacked and there is not just one victim. You go ahead and pick the post apart, doesn't bother me. If you actually knew me then you would know that I am actually one of the most tolerant people. My point is we need peace, peace from ALL. That will most likely never happen and its a sad thing.
I wonder though if I travel to China , am I Chinese? If I move to China, am I American Chinese?
If I move to Africa, am I American African? If I move to Iraq or somewhere in that region, am I American Muslim?
What constitutes being American? Can we not just say American instead of having all of the ethnicities and such in front of American.
I'm not arguing that everyone has been attacked, I'm talking about who's being attacked/targeted now and why. And you can thank religion for that, it's divided more people in this world than any other thing by far.
So let's just blame religion for the demise of the world. God forbid we actually blame the people that commit terrorist acts. Not all terrorists are religious. You do know that there are atheist, agnostics, and others (even Buddhists *gasp*) that are terrorists.
Absolutely I am, religion has been the sole purpose of countless lives destroyed. Religion is nothing but a collection of people who share common beliefs, it's created by people, carried on by people. God is God, religion is people, people who come up with ways/rules to practice and worship a particular God. In the very basics of most religions, especially the major ones, that at their very core teach that their religion is the only way, that everyone else is wrong, what do you expect people do with that? Of course I'm not condoning when people do things in the name of a religion, but I can see why they do when you look at that religion and how everyone interprets it in their own way...they just took it in a violent direction. Religion, while most claim are supposed to bring people together, divide people more so than anything else in a more subtle way.
I'm not talking about those who commit a crime and happen to be of a religion, I'm talking about those who do it in the name of that belief. You'd be hard pressed to find atheists, agnostics and Buddhists terrorist that did it because of their belief, very few I would imagine, Christianity and Islam have ruled that.
If you took religion out of the whole world, there would still be terrorists. Then what would be your scapegoat?
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