Is the U.S. becoming a nation of racists towards Islamic people?
 

"Following Johnson's death, anti-Islam signs surfaced around the rural New Jersey neighborhood where he once lived. One read "Stamp Out Islam" next to a drawing of a boot over a crescent and star. Another, hung on a mailbox next door to Johnson's sister's home, was more detailed."

"Last night I wasn't a racist, but today I feel racism towards Islamic beliefs," it read. "Last night Islamics had a chance to speak up for Paul Johnson, but today it's too late. Islamics better wake up and start thinking about tomorrow."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/26/beh....ap/index.html

Reverse your question too ...

As a country, as a people, just how forgiving can Americans be?
Or will we reach a point that we can no longer tolerate/accept those that are Muslim/Islamic?

Frankly, I'm worried about how the average American is beginning to view Muslims. We watch the "war" on tv and see the warnings of captives about to be be-headed and then can even see the be-headings. Obviously, most civilized people are sickened by what they see. But are we losing sight of the fact that these are a very small % of Muslims, and not representative of Muslim people on the whole?

I for one am leaning that way... not towards islamic people but this fudamentalits crap is getting way out of hand.

I feel the exact same way towards christian fundamentalists, mormon fundamentalists, zion fundamentalists, extreem left or right political fundamentalists...etc.

This beheading shit is just raising it to another level....

The extremists want your hate, they are doing this so you hate Muslims and then they can turn around and point a finger and say to young Muslims, "They hate us and want to kill us"

Then you have a worse problem.

At least a group of Jersey boys didn't get together and behead some random Muslim off the street and submit the tape to al-Jazeera.

YET!

Who cares if we're becoming racist...
in 100 years, we'll all be Islamic or Middle Eastern... problem = gone...
or maybe 200 years... eitherway, it'll happen..
Islamic or Chinese :)

I don't think its a good time to be an Arab living in America.

And trying to get on an airplane with a name like Mohammed Alla Raza isn't going to be an easy experience.

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If so it is in self-defense:2 cents:

Fucking here-here on that one brother!

NUKE!

You might still be alive in 100 years dumbass. Are you going to paint your skin brown and worship Allah just so they won't chop your head off? Pussy...

True true

I'd like to point out that it's impossible to be racist towards Muslims, as Islam is an ideology and it's impossible to be racist towards an ideology. A Muslim can be of any colour and from any country.

You can be anti-Islam in the same way that you can be anti-Nazi.
Islam and Nazism, btw, are very similar ideologies and this is why there were Muslim divisions in the SS and why the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Yassir Arafat's uncle) spent the war in Berlin studying Hitler's "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
The Islamic world supported Hitler because they wanted him to purge them of their own Jewish populations after their "inevitable" victory over the Allies.

Btw, if you are not yet "anti-Islam" then I suggest you pick up a copy of the Qu'ran and Haddiths (biography of Muhammad) and check out what Islam has instore for anyone who does not wish to become one of them.
If you don't have time for that then here's it in a nutshell:
1. Christians and Jews must pay a debilitating tax called Jizya (typically 75-125% of income) which is intended to deprive them of all their wealth until they just give up and become Muslim.
2. Atheists, Hindus, Pagans and all other religions must be wiped-out. Yes, that means that their followers must all be killed (80-120 million were killed during the Islamic conquest of India alone).
3. Men captured in Jihad are typically killed by beheading. Women are kept as sex slaves and children are enslaved then made to be Muslim.
4. If they became powerful in the US there would be no porn industry on penalty of death (and you guys think Bush is harsh).
5. There will be no free speech on pain of death.
6. You must pray 5 times daily on pain of death.
7. You must not have any friends who are not Muslims.
8. You must become circumcised if you are male and if you are a female them you can be infibulated (cutting off the entire labia and clitoris before puberty). Muhammad was asked about female circumcision and gave it is blessing.
9. If you are female then you cannot deny your husband sex. If you refuse he is allowed to beat you. You have no choice in that.
10. If you are female then you must have no male friends and you must obey your husband at all times. If you do not he may beat you.

Islam is an ideology which is almost impossible to reform, as Muslims believe that the Qu'ran is the word of God and hence cannot be nogotiated with or changed.
There are approximately 1.2 billion people in the world who would call themselves Muslim. However, a Muslim is someone who strives to follow the Qu'ran to the best of their abilities, so the actual number of real Muslims is about a third of that. That leaves at least 400 million people who want you dead for being who you are.
This is why we are fighting these people on their own turf. If we do not fight them then eventually they will win. For me, this is unacceptable, as I have two beautiful little nephews whom I want to grow up in a world in which Muslims do not threaten them. That is why I am willing to make the sacrifice now.
It is at best naive to state that the aggressor is the US/ UK as it is not us who wants this war - it is them.
We have gone into Iraq to give the people the opportunity to choose their own type of society. If they want to pray to allah then fine, as long as they do not stop people who do not wish to pray to the same god.
It's going to be an incredibly long process (decades rather than years) but eventually we will get there if we can stop trying to tear down our own societies from within.
If you are against the war against radical Islam then you are for them, as failure to act means that Muslims get more and more powerful within out own countries.
So the question is, do you want your children to live under Sharia or not?

To learn more, if you have the time and inclination, go here.

Just remember,,,,they started with us.

interesting subject...

When you fuck around in a part of the world where they don't want you they will go to the extreme. Question is more like, what the fuck are you doing in that part of the world?

I would humbly submit that only idiots are "racist" towards a religion :)
<edit>as naughty pointed out obviously..

Also, in the heat of the moment, people do things they wouldnt do when in a normal state of mind</edit>

islamists are the biggest racists in the world......all they can do is to tell that their god wants it like this......Bomb them all down

Idiot.

Cheers,
Matt

Stealing oil.

us ? you from ukraine ? idiot , ...

Uncle P ain't too fond of no dune coon...

Last night I was on a plane flight and it came up in conversation with a group of strangers. Everyone seemed to have thought the same thing - It's not Islam, it's a small handful of people that are doing this. However, it's usually the few that are the loudest.

I have to go with Dennis Miller on this one

" I was pretty much against foreign assholes who wanted to kill me before 9/11"

to answer the original posters question, all countries and cultures are pretty much "racist".

it's a cultural thing.

but camey jockeys need to understand this:

cutting folks heads off doesn't benefit the arabic people as a whole.

it makes life worse for every arabic person everywhere in the world.

the little arabic kid walking to school in america is taunted and bullied, the nyc cabdriver from from iran gets stiffed on his tip, muslim temples are vandalized.

my point being, karma is an energy system---for every action there is reaction, and beheading innocent people is just about the most foolish thing imaginable from a PR standpoint.

yes, most americans are soo fucking dumb, all it takes is the media to feed them bullshit, they would even hate their parents :1orglaugh and what's more sad is black folks hating muslims when christians have done more harm than a muslims would ever do....SEE SIG<--------

I guess a lot of people are very, very stupid. This war is between extremist individuals on both sides, it's not a war between religions. You're tricked into thinking that.

funny you say that i just got back from mcdonalds and the car in front of me was impersonating an islamic person through the microphone drive-thru as a joke......... he had to be in his 50's driving a Mercedes convertible with his two little kid's in the car

I'm not racist, but I have pretty much come to hate all fundamentalists. Christian, Islamic, whatever... you are all a bunch of pricks and need to be removed from the planet.

I'd like to build a big huge wall around the whole area and let them fight till there only 1 left, Thunderdome style. Winner can keep it.

Do you really believe that civilians in Iraq supporting the coalition infrastructure are innocent in the eyes of the muslim world? Let's be honest in that they are not just civilians but really just a kinder and gentler mercenary.

Hmm if just 1 percent of muslims were extremists and there are aprox. 1.2 billion of them, then that would only be about 1.2 million muslims in your small handful that want to see the destruction of the western world. I bet the percentage is higher. This is not a war on terrorism but ideology.

thruth is , most if not all muslims love america and american culture

when Clinton was head of state that is

Actually, you ARE a racist. There's too much hate in the world already.

rac·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rszm)
n.
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.


Now, you ignorant ass, I am not a racist, and you obviously don't even know what one is. I don't dislike people based on their race, I dislike them because they are extremists. If we had my ThunderDome, and just put everyone who thought theirs was the one true religion in it, the rest of us could go on living normal lives.

Take your hippy "too much hate in the world" shit elsewhere.

your all a bunch of fucking idiots.......

omgggggggggg
:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

a bunch of street scholars here
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christianity = judaism = islam


there is no difference in these religion except for the fine print. its the people themselves that bring about the hatred.

I can't say for real - who know, time will tell, but I have this feeling we are seeing that human trait of "hating an enemy" showing.

From the days of Japanese internment during WW2 to Cuba internment now - somehow there is little difference, despite the propaganda.

Then we had the "hate the commies" syndrome where Loius Mayer (on behalf of the govt), made some "documentaries" for US public consumption showing "how the commies hate us" - in fact, they were US actors speaking with "Russian accents" and spouting the biggest load of dribble. (And some complain about Michael Moore?? Especially those in govt, - he is using "their" tools to toss back the bs.)

Some are taught to "hate", but in a subtle way and for very perverse reasons. The volume of government propaganda in the US over the last short while, tho it is clearly known to be not true, contains messages of "hate" because "they are our enemy". This range from, in the early days, bullshit about Saddam, tho he did commit totally inhuman acts. One example was a Bush senior "hate" campaign saying that "Saddam burned babies in furnaces in the desert" - nice one - that is enough to cause horror, but in real life this was a story that cost $6m and was cooked up by a NY ad agency and admitted after the Gulf War.

The "hate" extends to anyone who may disagree with a course of action. How long did it take to get these "French fries" renamed? I still see pathetic and mostly untrue, quips about the French on GFY even now. Shows ya how gullible some are and how effective "hate" can be.

"Hate" is also used as a defence for actions which otherwise the public would not accept. There is a need to "hate" to justify what is often illegal under international law and it can be accepted by having this justification.

Currently, (tho this is "cooling" in the last months, probably because of other needs and an election year), almost all aspects of life as regards "foreign issues" in the US is run by "hate" undertones. "We" are good and righteous and "they" are "evil". Goebels new it was one of the most powerful human emotions and used it well in condemnation of the Jews - the results show.

A "reverse snobbishness" of this is some US people use the "US hater" term to "attack" anyone who criticises the US. I dunno what a "US hater" is - I can't see anyone actually "hating" a whole country, even those with extreme views. This is little more than the "taught hatred" showing.

It's one of these "human traits" that has been manipulated and allowed many "enemies" over the centuries and many killings.

Hehe! You're an idiot, too. First off, I am a linguist so I know a little something about the meanings of words.

The term 'racism' was originally restricted to race, as your dictionary points out. However, the meanings of words often change. One of the ways in which they change is by extending their reference. For better or worse, the term 'racism' has come to refer to a hatred of a particular group of people based on some distinct property which defines that group. People who hate homosexuals are called 'racists' all the time. What does sexual orientation have to do with race?

So, take your racist shit elsewhere. :321GFY

Really, Arabs/Muslims STARTED the whole situation we are in now? We support Saddam and gave him massive amounts of weapons and money which allowed him to not only suppress his own people, but also fight a 10 year war with Iran.

And if you want to get real technical..the west were colonial powers that ruled the Arab world for many years.

If everyone in the world was agnostic/atheist..do you think it would be a much more peaceful world?

Seems like the Western civilizations religions say "You've got to be one of us (Christian.. of some form) or when you die, you'll rot in hell forever.

The Islamics tell us: If you are not Muslim, then you are an infidel and deserve to die (the extremist say that at least).

So the western religions gets you when you die, the Arab religions world will hasten your death. Hmm..

Actually, Islam, like Christianity, is considered a western religion.

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/east_west.html

Centurion:

Totally agree!:thumbsup

This is even more funamentally immoral when you consider, at that time, the religeous "leaders" were not in power in Iran and there was a democratically elected government.

The US had an oil agenda and needed some ministers killed, among them, the Iranian Finance Minister. They chose Saddam to do the job, knowing his track record as a thug, rehearsed him for months in London and sent him back to Iraq, supported his election to office and them supplied him with a range of arms to flight this proxy war with Iran. (He did kill off the Finance Minister after a few aborted attemts).

This is a man who was US trained and equipped - the US government knows Saddam intimately. They were partners.

Strange bedfellows some have - that includes most of the notorious South American dictators - almost all were US trained at Fort Benning and provided with arms which resulted in mass killings/genicide in their own countries.

Just because you took two semesters as an English major hardly makes you a linguist.

I am a cunning linguist!

:Graucho

Sorry.. this bit is not quiet accrurate:

Saddam was the only exception - least as far as is known, to not be trained at Fort Benning. Tho he was coached for about 9 months by a team of US "specialists" in London on the assassination of the Iranian Finance Minister and was equipped with both bio and conventional weaponary.

Either way, the result is the same.

I have a lot more than that. I have a PhD in the field.

Yeah sure, we are all Doctors around here. Right GFY?

:1orglaugh


Just playing, I don't know why someone would pretend to have a PHD in that, so I believe you.

I'm still no racist, hippy. :Graucho And I AM racist by your definition, because I don't like a group who tends to start wars and murder people, then so be it.

If the MAJORITY of any race act a certain way, everyone else will see this..

Racism is just reality..

If your going to comment on a "race" then you are already generalizing , so its assumed the comments will be generalized.

I don't get why people think racism is bad..

generalizing something is human nature , and its how we understand things..


When you see a flock of geese , you say " wow look at that flock of geese "

Hey, I'm too young to be a hippy. But better a hippy than a redneck. :)