It is flawed to generalised Muslim as terrorists. The distorted truth about Muslims as terrorist are the results of effective positioning by terrorism. Bin Laden is merely a high profile terrorist leader, who has effectively positioned himself as a rebellious symbol of "justice".
Let suppose we can rewind the whole 911 scenario and Bin Laden, who now has another religion, comes on air and declares his religion is at war with the USA. Will the believers of that religion receive the brunt of discrimination that Muslims are receiving now? Maybe yes or maybe not?
One thing that created all these anti-sentiments was that the Muslim community initial reactions to the mass media was not homogeneous. The lost of lives needs no religious guidance in telling an individual that it wrong - our conscience is enough to tell us that. Unfortunately, for personal reasons, the destruction of a hated entity overwhelms the conscience of some muslims, and they were seen rejoicing on the screens of television to millions of people. Inevitably, the images of those who celebrate send bad vibes throughout the rest of the community. However, we must not deny that the majority of the Muslim community feels sad, shocked and some even felt betrayed as a true Muslim will not advocate or commit such acts.
Bin Laden effective use of propaganda, subtle imagery and powerful mind-influencing incitement won over too many Bin Laden wannabes. Most of us have our frame of mind further reinforced with fabricated beliefs that Muslims are terrorists when these wannabes carry out acts of terror under the guise of Islam.
Recently, terrorist activities has lessen and most of us convinently attribute it to the effective work of anti-terrorism. (if you actually think it work, think of Iraq now..) The lack of support and sympathy from the Muslim community (target market of terrorist), and an increased awareness of true Islam teachings by the Muslim community are the actual reason why terrorism activities cannot continue in some countries. Simple supply theory (lack of supply of hatred) states that the price (cost of training a radical) is too high.
We can continue to convinently put blame on the Muslims, or to extend our understanding to help the Muslim community upset terrorism. Remember, the world is already in a big mess without terrorism.
2006-10-26 21:34:23
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answered by JLim 2
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No, generalizations and stereotypes being applied to any race or nationality is bad. One person, or one person's organization cannot assume the role as a representatoion of its people, so no, Usama Bin Laden does not represent Muslims. Not all Muslims are bad are evil, you can find bad people anywhere in the planet, that does not mean they represent people of their ancestry. Do Neo-Nazis or skinheads represent all white people? Of course not, so why would Usama Bin Laden represent Muslims.
2006-10-26 16:47:23
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answered by bloop87 4
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I've met quite a few Muslims and never got the impression that any of them were of the terrorist mentality - just people with different religious views than some. And I don't believe that OBL represents all Muslims, just the fundamentalist nutjobs.
We need to give Bush & the coalition forces a chance to deal with these mongrels and allow the true face of Islam to show itself once again.
2006-10-26 16:47:42
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answered by My Evil Twin 7
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No, ALL Muslims are not terrorist. Those that believe it are narrow-minded and bigoted. There are Muslims who are peaceful and do not believe in taking someone's life. Osama bin Laden, in my opinion, represents a criminal, not a Muslim. Only criminals take life without regard and for no reason. He is not religious. He is a fanatic who wants to be regarded as a profit and a hero. He didn't even do it for the cowardly terrorist he is with. He only did it for himself.
2006-10-26 16:49:52
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answered by linus_van_pelt68 4
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All Muslims are no longer terrorists,yet maximum terrorists are Muslims. perchance each and all the questions are cropping up by way of fact at the instant Muslims around the international are killing people in the call of Allah using the violent teachings of their prophet as a springboard to poison the minds of their toddlers so as that they could attempt and set up some variety of Muslim international the place your decision is to transform or die as those are the only thoughts accessible to the non Muslim in accordance to the Koran.ahead of protecting people who've chosen to alter into your enemy it is mostly a important thought to renowned what his intentions quite are,and Muslims have chosen to make themselves the enemy. The terrorists by their strikes and something by their silence and state of being inactive. If in some unspecified time sooner or later something of the Islamic international chooses to stand against the radicals perchance their could nicely be a greater open talk,yet as long as they're silent and conserving their very own they have become the enemy and could be dealt with as such.
2016-10-16 11:05:35
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answered by ? 4
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To say that Osama bin Laden represents muslims is like saying the Crips gang in LA represents America.
2006-10-26 17:01:38
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answered by Michael da Man 6
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I have travelled in Muslim countries and they are good and bad friendly and unfriendly just like here.The Koran is a book of peace not war.It gets twisted around like our very own bible.
Who isOsama Bin Laden?Why his he NOT listed on the FBI poster for the jet plane attacks?The FBI HAS admitted that they dont have enough evidence.I say again.NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE.Yet he his to blame for this outrageous attack against America!He has not taken responsibility for it .Supposedly he is the mastermind behind this whole terrorist threat.And he lives in a freakin tent in the mountains!How does he communicate with his operatives anyway?Not electronically.An electronic signature from these remote areas would stand out like a sore thumb.hmmmm must be smoke signals
2006-10-26 16:51:57
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answered by Paul I 4
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Of course all muslims are not terrorists, some muslims are misled to terrorisim, and they think it's serving Allah, but that is the same sort of logic that caused the Crusades, that you could serve God by making war. It's nonsense logic, and I don't expect that many muslims would go in for that, just as I hope that the number of southern baptists stays very small.
2006-10-26 16:44:30
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answered by the Bruja is back 5
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It is nice to hear that from a Muslim. I understand Islam is supposed to be peaceful. Bin Laden is just a thug gang member. Unfortunately, there are many more members of his gang and it's growing all the time.
2006-10-26 16:58:55
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answered by hearts_and_thoughts_2003 3
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no i don't,but osama bin-laden represents a percentage of Muslims who think they have been beat down by the Jews and the west,in there minds they think bin-laden is a hero for standing toe to toe with the west.is it right or wrong is not my call.
2006-10-26 16:49:44
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answered by ? 7
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