How does the Muslim community cope after extremists commit terrorist acts in the name of an extreme version of Islam?
When Bush discusses being a Christian then drops a bomb on Iraq that kills thousands of Iraqi civilians is it fair for some to lump all Christians in with Bush?
After 9-11 I remember the discrimination against Muslims that swept the USA. Whether it be the guy who drove his car into a Mosque in Cleveland, Ohio or nasty racial remarks being made to Muslims - people calling them Towelheads, or extreme right wingers discussing dropping nuclear bombs on the Mid-East in general. (Not to mention the imprisonment of some muslims in the USA without due process under the law)
Likewise - there was an anti-American sentiment in other parts of the world for the actions that were committed by the government here.
I think many need to consider that authorities were able to capture many of the extremists that were behind the July 2005 London Bombings BECAUSE OF the Muslim community in the UK.
Likewise, many Christians in the USA were and are against the war in Iraq.
After everything that has happened it is clear that violence, discrimination, hatred and nastiness isnt the way to a peaceful world, but rather tolerance, acceptance and using intelligence is the better way to go. My faith in the human race will not be destroyed by a few.
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We've been lucky here in this city in that there have been comparatively few attacks on Muslims following bombings. A local mosque was threatened last time but the police got there fast and the community was reassured. It -- the Muslim community -- really reached out to the rest of the city at that time.
One really encouraging thing was the way the Glasgow eye-witnesses described the car bombers, simply as 'Asian', one saying "an Asian gentleman'.
The leaders of the Muslim communities here will of course condemn the bombings. (They probably have already, things have moved so fast in the past two days, it's hard to keep up!, I know some Muslim writers already have.)
I've no doubt you're right about Muslims co-operating with the police to help solve these crimes.
And I can see why.
and for that matter - i consider myself to be spirtual but i am not religious
The Crescent and star (pictured above) is actually the oldest Judean religious symbol turned on its side (this was Bulls Horns with the Sun in the middle). The cross is a symbol of torture.
In 2,000 years time, I wonder if the main religion will be Lennonism (long hair, beard, preached love and peace, murdered......) with everyone walking around with little guns hanging on silver chains round their necks.....
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