Why does it matter whether it is, or isnt "only a few Muslims" engaged in global terror?

Question

Global terror only comes from the idealogy we call "Islam". While there is some regional terror that has no relationship to Quranic doctrines, it is only a problem to one region and very limited in scope and funding.

Most people cant cope with this issue because it goes against their simplistic/nieve worldview...that most people are "good" (whatever that is) and only "a few" people in any culture or belief system are "bad" (whatever that is). As a result, like a robot caught in a loop, whenever they see Islamic terror, they refuse to attribute this "bad thing" to Islam and find other culprits, like Bush or Putin or Jews or whoever else the Islamists claim are the real problem.

Even though almost all conflict in the world today is rooted in Islamic idealogy, involving millions of combatents, lets assume the ostrich people are right and its "only a few"...I then say...so what? Follow? Look, no Islam, no Islamic terror right...and that is the problem today...Islamic terror.

Answer 1

The problem has always been bigotry.

Answer 2

According to them Christians and Jews are the "global terrorists". So who is right? Both are wrong. Did you know that the first act of modern terrorism was perpetrated in Jerusalem in 1948 when the Zionists blew up the British embassy? That was the last straw for the Brits and they created the state of Israel(with the help of the U.N.) and left for good. Are there not Christians in the U.S. that have killed abortion doctors and blown up clinics in Gods name? Terrorism comes in as many flavors as there are religions and countries. The real problem is everybody thinking they are right and refusing to see things from the others perspective (kinda like you question). Until we all agree that God does not exist and that we are all stuck here on a small blue dot in the middle of nothing things will continue as they have for the last several thousand years.

Answer 3

Disregarding the factual inaccuracies of your premises, your conclusion leads us nowhere. Religious intolerance is not a solution to religious intolerance. People who believe in fighting fire with fire have obviously never been firemen. Water is much more effective.

It is true that if there were no Islam, there would be no Islamic terror.
It is also true that if there were no white people, there would be no white supremacy,
And if there were no Jews, there would be no Jewish conspiracy theories,
And if there were no black people, there would be no black on black crime,
And if there were no hearts, people would not have heart attacks,
And if there was no life, there would be no death.

Your argument is, though well articulated, is merely a statement of that which is obvious but unacceptable. It brings us no closer to a solution.

I'll avoid cliche adages about babies and bathwater.

Answer 4

Read this... :

http://www.samharris.org/index.php/samharris/full-text/chapter-one/

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Reason in Exile

The young man boards the bus as it leaves the terminal. He wears an overcoat. Beneath his overcoat, he is wearing a bomb. His pockets are filled with nails, ball bearings, and rat poison. The bus is crowded and headed for the heart of the city.

The young man takes his seat beside a middle-aged couple. He will wait for the bus to reach its next stop. The couple at his side appears to be shopping for a new refrigerator. The woman has decided on a model, but her husband worries that it will be too expensive. He indicates another one in a brochure that lies open on her lap. The next stop comes into view. The bus doors swing. The woman observes that the model her husband has selected will not fit in the space underneath their cabinets. New passengers have taken the last remaining seats and begun gathering in the aisle. The bus is now full. The young man smiles.With the press of a button he destroys himself, the couple at his side, and twenty others on the bus. The nails, ball bearings, and rat poison ensure further casualties on the street and in the surrounding cars. All has gone according to plan.

The young man’s parents soon learn of his fate. Although saddened to have lost a son, they feel tremendous pride at his accomplishment. They know that he has gone to heaven and prepared the way for them to follow. He has also sent his victims to hell for eternity. It is a double victory. The neighbors find the event a great cause for celebration and honor the young man’s parents by giving them gifts of food and money.

These are the facts. This is all we know for certain about the young man. Is there anything else that we can infer about him on the basis of his behavior? Was he popular in school? Was he rich or was he poor? Was he of low or high intelligence? His actions leave no clue at all. Did he have a college education? Did he have a bright future as a mechanical engineer? His behavior is simply mute on questions of this sort, and hundreds like them. Why is it so easy, then, so trivially easy—you-could-almost-bet-your-life-on-it easy—to guess the young man’s religion?

Answer 5

Islam give people the chance to know their self more ,the matter these days is not Islam but the truth,Islam unify humanity and people from many religions converted to Islam,all this scared the evil people and try to extinguish Islam.Islam takes power every day in the heart of mankind despite all propaganda, please see the statics in USA and Britain you will be shocked.I think all events came from God to show the truth.

ask God to show u the best way

Answer 6

Genius:

There are Muslim terrorists who brainwash kids with their stupid religion to blow themselves up

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there are Jewish terrorists who kick the crap out of the local inhabitants because they want to own the entire Middle East

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there are Christian terrorists who follow their capitalist masters and kill whoever they are told to kill without thinking about why.

There are terrorists in every culture on the planet. They are all equal scumbags. Singling one group out and saying that they are the only problem is just plain ignorant.

Answer 7

You criticize people of having a simplistic world view and claim that only Muslims are global terrorists? Wake up man. There are terrorists of all races and creeds.

Answer 8

if there were no Islamic extremists then another threat wouLd pop up. there wiLL always be eviL in the worLd.
remember the Crusades?
if you reaLLy dont see something wrong in wiping out innocent peopLe then you have some major probLems.

Answer 9

Islam is not the problem but rather western domination of the world

Answer 10

Las Vegas Steve, I think the problem today is Christian terror. Judgment starts first in the house of God.

Answer 11

thats kindof a simpleminded way to look at the situation. we're not fighting right now to exterminate the religion of 'islam', we're fighting to take terrorists out of POWER over there.