Muslims: has the crisis in the middle east affect your life here?

Question

What are you views on the militant extremes

Answer 1

Honestly, to some extent it has, but it really depends on where you are and who you're dealing with. I'm really disappointed in radical terrorists claiming that what they're doing is in the name of Allah or Islam in general. 99% of Muslims are peaceful, and its really a shame that more of them arent standing up and defending our religion.

As to how much our lives have changed here... Again, it depends on who you're talking to. I find that most people are open-minded and LOGICAL, meaning that they know that the terrorists in the Middle East are radicals. But you always get those people that are just too ignorant to look past stereotypes and try to understand different cultures and religions for how they really are.

Answer 2

Yes! The Iraq War has reopened the Vietnam Era again for me and most people who lived through it. The question that dogged me all those years in between these Wars is, "Did the American People learn anything during and after the Vietnam War?
The answer is a small yes and a mountainous NO!!
Our Cardinal Sin in Vietnam was thinking the people could not and would not stand up to us in battle. We looked at the people of Vietnam and saw weak, even effeminate men, who were backwards and totally uneducated. They were skinny and small compared to the average American.
The cardinal sin which America has not own up to yet is our wellingness to use our stand off weapons, aircraft with rockets and bombs and long range heavy guns that we could deliver with great accuracy to kill and maim by the Vietnamese until we killed nearly a million people and mostly innocent people.
Talk about a mass grave of dead bodies, just think how big the hole would have to be to bury a million Vietnamese.
The Army and Marines who warred in close action with simple infantry weapons found a enemy worthy of respect, smart and tough.
And the result was Fifty-eight thousand officially died Troops, and probably more like 60,000. troops were sacrificed for nothing.
And the nothing was not the failure to win the Vietnam War. The failure was our inability to accept the horrible mistake of invading Vietnam in the first place
And what did America learn, Well, they learned to not blame the victims of war, in one category, the troops. It is important lesson. However, We did not learn how to look at other people with an open mind and open eyes be able to evaluate somewhat accurately their potential abilities.
We looked at the Vietnamese and the Iraqi with the prejudiced eyes of the American. We did not see the Iraqi, we saw what we assumed the Iraqi looked like and acted like. We walked or rode right into a trap called the Middle East. Ironically, we did the same thing in Vietnam.
Both the Vietnamese and the Iraqi were crazy enough to die in mass for there Country or there Tribe, Religion, Family or something else and we did not see it coming.
SAME MISTAKE!!

Answer 3

The Trouble is on both the sides. There are fanatics among the Muslims, but they get the fuel from the negative tactics of the Bush Administration.

Come on, its now loud and clear that Afghanistan and Iraq were just dirty games for OIL. And regarding 9/11, even Islam condemns killing without a reason. Yet it was NOT the Muslims who did that, its an internal ACT. (Loose Change)

The Saddam era no doubt was against democracy but was peaceful and there was NO such civil war. But the Bush adminsitration has brought the region into chaos and confusion. These killings simply DONT stop because the required Trigger has been given by our own Mr. Bush, who has been given the:

'The License To Kill' from GOD.