Are their people out there who truly believe that the war on terror is really the war on Muslims?

Question

I sure hope not. If Catholics, or Scientologists, or Buddhist plowed planes into our office buildings and killed thousands of people, we would go after them too

Answer 1

No it is the radical Islamist that I believe we are at war with. The only problem I have is that some moderate Muslims have not come out hard enough to voice the evil that the terrorists are committing here and around the world.

Answer 2

Yes there are, they found there way to this question!

Baltek above hit the nail on the head. We are creating new terrorists every day with each civilian that dies in Iraq. Anyone who cant see that and understand it is the TRUE thread to this country.

Only Muslims are terrorists? What about Timothy McVeigh? The kids at Columbine and Virginia Tech? We are creating our own here in this country too.

Islam is the only religion that says it ok to kill? Ive heard the neo-religocons on the Fox network saying that the Iraq war is a "just and Christian" war. So its ok for us to kill too according to them.

Excellent post Briar Rose! Very well said.

Let me be the first to tell you, and you had better start grasping the point, the longer we occupy a foreign country that has a completely different set of cultural values and mores than we have, the more terrorists will come after us in the future.

Answer 3

Many Muslims especially those in the Middle East do feel that it is a war on Islam. And when looking at past history of the Middle East it is not hard to see why they feel the Christian West is targeting them.

To answer to a few of the answers above:

No it should not be. Islam is a peaceful religion.

ALASPADA- assuming you are Christian, did you make huge efforts to show that Christianity is peaceful after the Oklahoma City bombing? or after Eric Rudolph bombed abortion clinics? If you or Christians in general did not make these efforts - why? And in that answer you will find the answer to why some Muslims have not been more outspoken.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. ~Alan Watts
Unfortunately I think that this is all too true.

Answer 4

If there were no religions, these wars would still be happening. This is a battle between tribes. The tribes have just gotten much bigger.
The west would still be attacking the Middle East, Hitler would still hate the 'foreigner Jews' taking over their country, Al Qaeda would still be targeting the U.S. for trying to control Arab resources, and Arabs would still hate EUROPEAN Jews for stealing Palestinian land with the help of the U.S. and U.N. Christian is another word for western tribes, Muslim is just another word for Arab.

Each tribe, or nation, has its conservatives who want to wage war on the other tribes. Germany's cons were the Nazis, Israel has the Zionists, Muslims have Islamic extremists, and we have our neocons.
They're all dangerous.

Answer 5

What is the War on Terror? I thought that the War on Terror was against ALL forms of terrorism...According to the White House, North Korea and Venezuela, among many others, are also targets in the War on Terror.

Answer 6

The problem is that many paranoid people are unable to use their brains to differentiate between terrorists and Muslims.

Terrorism can be found in other religions as well. Remember the last terrorist attack was done by a Christian American prior to 9/11.

"Stern, an expert on terrorism and a lecturer on the subject at Harvard, did something no one else has done. She decided to learn more about what makes terrorist ticks by going to the source and interviewing them....

....And she is an equal opportunity researcher: she interviews Christian, Jewish and Islamic terrorists."

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/05/int04024.html

Islamic terrorism came from the U.S. foreign policy and news flash:
The U.S. government has committed and supported terrorism.

Edit:
This American terrorist targeted American abortion clinics by bombing them:

"They're right," he wrote, "I am a terrorist. And that's the reason I'm posting this letter." He further declared that he had been driving across the country scouting out abortion clinics, assembling a cache of weapons and compiling dossiers on clinic staff in order "to kill as many of them as I can."

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0213-08.htm

Answer 7

When a system of belief tells you it is OK to kill others, and then several members of that system of belief commit terrorist acts in quick succession (9/11, Beslan, the London bombings, the Madrid bombings, the Fort Dix threat, the Heathrow threat etc) it becomes clear that that system of belief is part of the problem not the solution.

Answer 8

It's a war on a slice of Muslims, that we can call Islamic Fascism or Islamic Militants, or Islamic terrorists. It's a war against the most intolerant of the Muslims who seek to ultimately convert us all, or see our demise.

Answer 9

As you can see from some of the lunatic freaks who answered you, yes, there are. And those people are dangerous, not only because they want to make war on innocent people, but they want to pick a fight with a billion people who don't really want to fight us, and we can't afford to make more enemies.

Answer 10

Unfortunantly, many of the Muslims I spoke with while living in the Middle East beleive this very thing. That is why the War on Terror has actually created more terrorists. Musilms are afraid we are going to destroy Islam. Wouldn't you fight if you thought someone was going to destroy the one thing you beleive in most?