If it was MUSLIM extremists who attacked on 9/11, does this fact justify why all Muslims deserve to pay?

Question

Because the attackers were Muslim extremists, does this justify why all Muslims now have to pay the price in the form of hatred against their group, dead civilians in places like Iraq and Lebanon, etc. And if you're going to say that no Muslim leaders rise up to denounce Muslim terrorists, please see this article before you do so: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060911/ap_on_re_us/harvard/khatami

There are also more examples of Muslim leaders publicly denouncing terrorism. My Question: If it was MUSLIM extremists who attacked on 9/11, does this fact justify why all Muslims deserve to pay?

Try this link if you want to read the above mentioned article:

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PLEASE STOP TELLING ME THAT I'M INSINUATING ALL MUSLIMS SHOULD PAY FOR THE 9/11 ATTACKS!! I'M LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TO THIS QUESTION!

aliasisim: I'm not saying all Muslims should pay, I am only asking the question looking for answers. Yours is the best answer by far.

Answer 1

No. All Muslims do not deserve to pay.
Bush calls himself a Christian. Does this mean that all Christians must pay for his mistakes?

But, the most important thing about all of this, is that 9/11 was definitely not conducted by Muslims.

Just take a good look at the government theory.

The biggest conspiracy theory is that 19 Arabs, who had been under surveillance, conspired together, walked onto four commercial aircraft without being detected, and without having their names appear on a passenger list. Then that they overcame over 250 people with plastic box-cutters. And not only that, but with no previous experience of flying large jets, they navigated from 30,000 feet and hit three out of four targets precisely, meantime conducting flying manoeuvres that fighter pilots would find difficult. Then, the amazing thing is that 7 of them survived the events and are known to be alive today.
Also for the first time ever in history, three, not two, but three steel framed buildings collapsed as a result of fire which could not possibly have burned hot enough to melt steel, and caused the buildings not to topple over, as one might expect, or to fall a little at a time, but to fall within their own footprint at the speed of gravity. And one of those buildings (WTC7) was not even hit by a plane.
Not only that, but the four aircraft disappeared completely without a trace of their 16 large engines, or any of the black boxes. This has also never before happened in history.


This theory is so amazingly full of holes that it is impossible for any sane thinking person to believe, yet that is what the official 9/11 commission report.says.


"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)


All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Answer 2

**The link didn't work for me, but I'm sure there are leaders speaking out against violence***

Your valid point is obscured by your connecting of places like Lebanon and Iraq to 9/11 and inappropriate actions taken against Muslims. In a way, however, you are revealing the growing problem with Muslims which is the victim mentality: anytime a Muslim sufffers it's wrong, but if others suffer at the hand of Muslims it was probably justified.

To answer your first question, the fact that 9/11 was pulled off by Muslims does not mean the world should target Muslims as a whole. Extremists are just that, the extreme end of the spectrum and so we should target them but make sure we are not defaming the Muslim religion or its followers (since no other religion is more or less perfect than Islam). Muslims, however, also have to adopt the idea that no other religion is more or less perfect than their own.

The problem is that Lebanon and Iraq really are not good examples of targeting Muslims. First, in Iraq you have more Muslims killing Muslims than you have anyone else killing Muslims now. And the U.S invasion (as stupid as it was) was not aimed at Muslims- though I'm sure many were hurt by it. In Iraq the real question that needs to be asked by Muslims is why their Muslim leaders in Iraq are not taking a stand against the violence there? And of course the answer is because they are seeking power and benefit from the chaos. I'd argue they care less about Muslims than anyone since they are Muslim and do nothing to stop the violence despite all their money, arms and power.

Lebanon is also a separate issue and it, too, did not target Muslims and had nothing to do with 9/11. But a Muslim army didi attack Israel so why do people get outraged when Israel fights back using the same tactics as their enemy? If Lebanon wants peace with Israel all they have to do is do it- but if they attack Israel they cannot expect to just live their lives as if nothing is happening while rockets kill civilians there.

Again, I appreciate your perspective in that targeting any one group is wrong - there's no arguing with that. But you can't feel like you're a victim in every situation that happens in impact a Muslim (or worse, in cases where Muslims started the problem in the first place).

Answer 3

The war on terror is not focusing on making all muslims pay. In my opinion, the muslim religion is a very violent religion to begin with. In its scripture, it says that people should go out and force others to become muslims. If they do not convert, kill the infidels.

This has been going on since the beginning of this religion and is continuing today. Other religions, such as the catholic religion, went through a violent time and they eventually changed and denounce violence. This was in the time of the crusades and after. However the muslim religion has not done this yet and when compared to the catholic religion, where the pope is the decision maker, the muslim religion has no central authority.

Therefore anyone with any type of education can preach, muslims in the middle east tend to be uneducated and therefore rely on what others say about the holy book, and the imams have para military forces that go out and find non practicing muslims and force them to pray. If you don't think muslims are violent, please watch the videos on http://www.michaelsavage.com of the beheadings.

Then talk to me about how these wolf's in sheep clothing that you mention are moderate, loving, and caring muslims.

Answer 4

That is because western media doesn't show our backlash. Just this month we had the ISNA (Islamic society of North America) convention in chicago and we have been going against terrorism, calling what they do unislamic and doing everything we could. We've been doing this BEFORE 9/11.

One of the first leaders to call the US after 9/11 was (the then) Iranian president who said these actions were unislamic and would give its resources to help.

We will not apologize for 9/11 or any terrorist activities BECAUSE THAT MEANS WE ARE SOMEHOW RESPONSIBLE. The "terrorists" do not represent us.
But we will continually denounce terrorism because that is AGAINST Islam.

***For those that wish to continue spreading misinformation about Islam (like quoting out of context Quranic verses) UNDERSTAND YOU ARE DOING THE SAME THING AL-QAEDA IS DOING. THEY MAKE THE SAME ARGUMENTS AS YOU!
How does it feel to think like a terrorist?

Answer 5

This makes as much sense as whites today having to pay blacks for mistreatment in yesteryears. I live in the south and am asked by Northern transplants what side I was on during the civil war..... huh?

Answer 6

No it doesn't mean all Muslims deserve to pay. To me they were just people and that's it. They were extremist who happen to be Muslim.

Answer 7

It depends on how closed minded and ignorant the answerer is. No, not all muslims should pay. The extremists should, if it was extremists who did this.

Answer 8

well being there over 1.3 billion they don't stand up against these radicals who kill in their god holy name no one have came out of this Islamic religion and said wait stop all the bombing cutting off of heads just plan old killing of peoples for no reason but to make a point to the west most of these kill is their own peoples . until i see the real leaders of the Islamic world come out and speak out against these inhumane treatment i have to say they are all the same . fill with hatred violent against humanity not just the west.

Answer 9

No! Stereotypes are unfortunate. Each person should be judged on his/her own merits, not by acts of groups that have the same name as theirs, but play by different rules.

Answer 10

Yes