Why is there so much misleading information about Muslims being a hate filled people?

Question

It simply is not true. I have personally known many who are loving and caring people filled with great dignity and compassion for humanity.
It is clearly not all due to the events of 911, I can remember seeing this attitude beforehand.

Why do you think and why?

willhobe
Very well stated and I believe to be accurate.good for you!

Jihad is a RADICAL and EXTREMEST group much like extreme and radical Christians. remember how many have been killed in the past Crusades in the name of God or other abhorrences as is still done to this day.
Christianity is meant to be love and understanding just as the Muslim faith is.

Hate is Hate no matter what the excuse and misuse of the ideology is!!

Thank you to everyone for answering.
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Answer 1

A lot of people wont like this but I think it gives a good answer to your question.

While the writer is talking about Muslims, it also applies to any of us that just sit by and just let things happen around us without taking a stand, regardless of country or religion.

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The Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant

We are told again and again by "experts" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this assertion may be true, it is ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this time.

A man whose family was of German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

"Very few people were true Nazis" he said, "but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."


It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of many small and large shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the Muslims of the "peaceful majority", the "silent majority" are afraid to fight against the fanatics and therefore irrelevant.

Communist Russia comprised Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority was irrelevant. China's huge population, it was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in killings that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel or bayonet. And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peaceful & loving"?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points.

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like the man from Germany, they will awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Answer 2

GThe reason the Muslims colectivly are known as being hate filled comes from
first Islamic laws for example the only religion in Saudia Arabia that is legal is islam, and in other Islamic countries religon is highly regulated you literaly have to regester yourself as a religion in Egypt for example.
Mid Eastern Christians I have known felt like they could get lynched and were discriminted against by the laws on the books. 9-11 was the result of individuals who grew up being told all non Muslims were inharently evil and beleiveing it. It would be much the same reason that white Southerner prior to the the civil rights movemnt might have beleived that blacks were inhaerntly infirior.

Answer 3

Islamophobia is the fear and/or hatred of Islam, Muslims or Islamic culture. Islamophobia can be characterised by the belief that all or most Muslims are religious fanatics, have violent tendencies towards non-Muslims, and reject as directly opposed to Islam such concepts as equality, tolerance, and democracy.

It is viewed as a new form of racism whereby Muslims, an ethno-religious group, not a race, are nevertheless constructed as a race.

A set of negative assumptions are made of the entire group to the detriment of members of that group.

During the 1990's many sociologists and cultural analysts observed a shift in forms of prejudice from ones based on skin colour to ones based on notions of cultural superiority and otherness.

Answer 4

Because they are people too.

Christians still are the number one killers. We even kill those that kill.

It is just human nature to separate by any means necesary. Black versus white, male versus female, Catholics versus protestants, christians versus muslims, America versus "the bad guys".

Besides; we as a species seem to thrive on conflict. Since the iron curtain fell and 'the reds' became our friends the focus was shifted to'The war on drugs' but that turned out to be so bad for bussiness that then 'rogue states' became the target. It turned out a bit impersonal so now 'the muslims' are the baddies.

My guess is Texas will be next. Those darn separatist red necks have it commin'.

It is all percention of general idea about what sets us appart.

Answer 5

I think that it is the radical ones that want to cut our heads off that are inspiring the dislike of muslims. Perhaps if these other muslims would stand up and condemn the bad ones more diligently, and maybe stop blindingly finance these little cells that keep popping up in our country, maybe then I can trust them a little more. But that doesn't mean that I dont disrespect them in public. But I do keep a watch on my back. Unfortunately, the good ones and the bad ones all look the same. They are even killing their own people over there in their own country.

Answer 6

Look..it is not about YOU per se. I mean that. It is about how all of Islam can continue to demand..even though people all over the world ... are now reading the Qur'an for themselves to see what all the fuss is about ... that everyone bend knees before Muhammed.

It is as though Islam cannot even see what a lie is and what a truth is . But .. I have to tell you .. long long before Islam was invented by Muhammed .. God said that it is HE which blinds Egypt .

Answer 7

I know exactly why. The media, the media unfortunately is owned hugely by Christian and Mormon groups with a hell of a lot of power. They dictate the news, what the public thinks, sees, acts, pretty much the entire country. Lately there was a huge world wide Muslim protest against terrorism, did it get any coverage? Of course not. Does the media use the words 'terrorism' and "Islam" every few minutes with horrifying imagery, well you know the answer to that one already. Only 3% of Americans read books anymore, I would say almost 100% watch TV, and most believe it all to be truth. TV is a huge lie feeding the masses of ignorant people in America, that is a fact.

Answer 8

A combination of only seeing the bad minority in the media and individual unwillingness to explore the real facts.

Bad news and scandal sells. Unfortunately, good news doesn't.

Plus I do sometimes wonder if there is a political agenda as someone else mentioned. Communism collapsed so a new 'enemy' was needed. If this is the case, George Orwell wasn't very wrong (read "1984" if you haven't already)

Answer 9

I do not see all that "loving and caring" that " great dignity and compassion for humanity"you are writing about. What I see is assassination of Benazir Bhutto tree days ago, year ago another women politician, Pakistani minister of social affairs was brutally murdered. What I see is many teachers, writers, caricaturists all over the world Muslim born or not who fear for their life because they said their opinion. Do you call it loving and caring ?

Answer 10

I think people in the western world don't understand how people can be driven by such a strict faith. I think there are so many liberties taken by westerners that they frown on people who try to eliminate such 'worldy' pleasures from their life. I think that this attitude is directed to all such religions even Buddhism. Also, people are afraid of what they don't understand. Take some time to understand people of different religions and you'll realise that we are all the same.