2007-02-22 00:17:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
If you are looking for a serious answer, check out a concept called "Fundamental Attribution Error".
Fundamental Attribution Error is a type of cognitive bias.
A cognitive bias is a distortion of how a person perceives reality. It can be thought of as a filter or a logic diagram usually based on a person's life experiences. For example, if a white person gets beat up by 4 black people, their mind will usually make a filter or a "connection" that black people are bad based on the action of only a few. For years (or for the rest of their life), the persom might see blacks as evil because they were beat up by 4 people. There are probably close to 100 cognitive biases that I am aware of. There are probably many more.
The idea behind Fundamental Attribution Error is that a person will overemphasize the role of personality or another trait as the cause of a person's actions without taking into account other social or environmental factors.
The example I gave about getting beat up by 4 black people can be a Fundamental Attribution Error. The person who got beat up may blame the fact the attackers were black and that was why they beat them up rather than factors such as the muggers drug addictions or the fact they were starving or broke.
Fundamental Attribution Error is not the sole reason, but it is one of the main reasons why some people associate Muslims with suicide bombers. On the news, Muslims are committing suicide bombings. A non-muslim may begin to think that they are suicide bombers because they are muslim rather than the fact they might be an Iraq citizen who are killing US troops that invaded their homeland or maybe the Muslim was raised to hate Americans by their parents and they kill out of hatred, not in the name of Islam.
People will also defend their own. Despite non-Muslims performing terrorist acts, people of the same group tend to justify the actions. This is an example of a type of "Ingroup Bias".
As with any Psychology concept, it is much more complicated than this, but this is a fundamental concept in answering your question.
2007-02-25 14:43:51 · answer #1 · answered by Slider728 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salam :) i'm a Muslim teen residing in Canada. I placed on hijab alhamdullilah and it quite is for the main section known right here provided that i stay in a huge city with a huge Muslim inhabitants. I do get the few ignorant comments and idiots at college although who ask stuff like "yo have been given a bomb under there hahaha". however the toughest section is being diverse out of your persons. Being a Muslim, events, alcohol dating boys donning revealing clothing etc is haram, and on an identical time as i don't % to try this besides, it quite is slightly awkward to could clarify why i don't do it to those that evaluate it purely a factor of being a young person and its ordinary to them. Muslims residing in Muslim international places quite have it much less puzzling while it comprises installation in. And with food it quite is slightly troublesome yet I continuously attempt to examine the label if i'm not sure of the factors. yet i does not wanna be the different faith no remember how puzzling it gets and how diverse i think from honestly everyone else, i'm happy to be Muslim :)
2016-12-17 16:06:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all Muslims are suicide bombers but it does seem all suicide bombers are Muslims.
I never heard of a Christian suicide bomber in Palestine.
Which gives support to the idea that the war with Israel is not about land, but Islam vs Jews. You do not see the Christian Palestinians killing people.
2007-02-22 10:30:32 · answer #3 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whoa!Not everyone thinks that.One of my best friends who I was in the Marines with,was from Iran.I trust him with my life.However!You cannot blame someone turning a scepitical eye on the religion.That is the fault of the extremists.I do not condone ignorent thinking,but it is just a natural response.Extremists look just like other muslims on the outside.
2007-02-22 02:09:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
she is right its not all just some and they are dumb forgive them there stupidity they learned it from thier government i know not all muslims are bombers anymore than you would think all irish are bombers i just think its a shame the world is caught up in this muslim/jew/christian problem and im just a confused pagan
2007-02-22 01:44:48 · answer #5 · answered by mark s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not muslim and I don't think that.
2007-02-22 00:27:52 · answer #6 · answered by blahblah 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋