Muslims "in the crosshairs of bigotry"

The point is, Indonesia, being 90+% Muslim, surely would be equally or more ****ed up than the Middle East, with more conflict and constant mass terror attacks? But oh, it isn't. It has had one minor terror attack this year, whereas the Middle East has had thousands, and has many active terrorist/militant groups.

So your theory about Islam being the cause is simply not true. The cause is because the Middle East is an isolated desert with limited connection to the outside world, poor living standards, therefore a fertile environment for corrupt regimes, and a conflict has emerged which has catalysed the whole thing. Islam just happens to reside there. If Syria was 100% Christian, we would be seeing Christian extremist attacks all across the world too.

Islam isn't the cause. There is no single cause for the state of the middle east, to deny the massive role Islam has played in the current state is equivalent to sticking your head in the sand. The islamic state is kinda founded on islamic principles; child molestation, misogyny, intolerance (i.e killing non muslims and gays), based on the life of mohammed and his teachings.

A christian state of iraq and syria that followed the teachings and the life of jesus would actually be quite a nice place.

Facebook was blowing up with Muslims blaming Trump for this, assuming that it was a hate crime before we even knew who the shooter was. Dat logic. It seems that now all murders of Muslims are automatically hate crimes, regardless of who did it and motive. Mental, really.

Some are even still doing it even though we now know the guy is Hispanic. Cause Hispanics sure are likely to take Trump's lead on things*

I agree, there's like 1.6 billion Muslims out there and if these two men had done nothing, then why was there a need to kill them?

You have no concept of diversity. Marrying younger people was the social norm in the Middle East 1500 years ago, deal with it. Quite obviously at least 95% of Muslims nowadays are self-aware enough to not marry 9 year olds. Our way of society isn't the only way of society.

Wait, so you hate democracy?

You have it from AperfectBalance guys, my society, democracy, is terrible

I'm not a Muslim lol

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37079910

According to the New York mayor, in response to the shooting of two Muslims outside a mosque. I think he is absolutely right, we cannot let ourselves collectively incriminate all Muslims for the actions of the few.

What about Moses the plague-spreading terrorist?

Neither are Mohamed's

If Islam is the cause of these things, then why is there such little terrorism in the highest population Muslim countries (India, Indonesia, etc)?

The answer is that Islam isn't the cause. The Quran is open to interpretation, terrorists aren't 'following it to the word', they are manipulating it to justify their actions.

Neither are Mohamed's

Targeting individual Muslims is wrong on so many levels.

Criticising a backward and oppressive ideology isn't.

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Worst thing Islam could have done was start moving into Western society. In their own little (3rd) worlds they could fester alone, sold their oil and got on with life. But Western society as a whole is cracking down a lot on societal cancers, especially one so outdated as Islam. Only thing them doing arriving in Europe is putting their own religion under immense scrutiny which they won't come back from, and it's just gonna build up tensions to a breaking point, and they'll be the ones breaking.

If Islam went under immense reform I wouldn't have a problem, it is how it is right now that is the problem, and you cannot say that Islam has nothing to do with recent terror events because there is one religion that is consistently inspiring them.

Also as a side note any country that has adopted Islam has basically turned to crap. Sorry but not sorry it's true.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37079910

According to the New York mayor, in response to the shooting of two Muslims outside a mosque. I think he is absolutely right, we cannot let ourselves collectively incriminate all Muslims for the actions of the few.

If Islam is the cause of these things, then why is there such little terrorism in the highest population Muslim countries (India, Indonesia, etc)?

The answer is that Islam isn't the cause. The Quran is open to interpretation, terrorists aren't 'following it to the word', they are manipulating it to justify their actions.

Who says it's 'A-OK'?

Are you joking? India has lots of terrorism. Usually cross-border terrorism coming from Pakistan
However, very few Muslims from India actually engage in terrorist activity. Less terrorists have gone from India to join ISIS compared to the numbers from Western countries, even though the population of India is massive.