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guillermoramirez  04/02/2009 03:49 AM Report

To truly and honestly engage with islamic civilization americans must stop waging war on their own people. Halt once and for all the so called war on drugs which is nothing but a war on the lowest economic strata of the american population. Put an end to the prison mentality. The U.S. at present is nothing short of a vast minimun security prison that in a hearbeat can turn into a wrongful conviction and a prolonged stay at a medium or a United States Penitentiary institution. As long as a very significant sector of the american population keeps on being seen as expendable by the movers and shakers the more alien poor populations of any foreign country will keep on being but targets on a vast weapons range.

OBSERVER  09/11/2008 03:28 PM Report

No matter how much these countries try to show/market the ideas that women are participating in society and educational institutes in great number, LAWS ARE ALL UNFAIR AND AGAINST WOMEN IN ALL ASPECTS

OF THESE SOCIETIES. THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE IN current ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF iran.

SG  09/11/2008 11:38 AM Report

Riots in France were not Muslim in character but reflected frustrations of unemployed youth many of whom are Arab by origin. One of their demands was that they cannot get into nightclubs because of racial prejudice. Hardly an Islamic cause.

Savid  09/10/2008 12:28 PM Report

spoite: Did you watch the riots in France a few years ago? Muslim integration in France is not going that well. In fact when I talk to different Europeans they each are concerned about keeping the cultural integrity of their nation while being in the EU. For example, losing "French" identity, losing "Dutch" identity. A great deal of the tension is with Muslims groups from N.Africa, Turkey etc... But it also comes from eastern European populations moving west. I think what Agr was hinting at was that Americans have a greater sense of respect, one might call it "political correctness." Now I don't understand what Agr meant either and I would concede that some believe this kind of political correctness is only an outward front, that Americans just don't want to be offensive in public. Americans are dealing with this problem but it's not with Muslims, it's with Latin Americans and Mexicans. People are reacting differently, some are watching A-Rod and Eva Longoria, others are building a fence. We'll see who wins.

spoite  09/09/2008 09:26 PM Report

To Agr: You wrote: "it may be argued that America's misunderstanding of Islam stems from Europe's desecration of it." Since it is a rather vague and devoid of context statement, I am not sure what you mean bu that. However, most Europeans agree with the desecration of their own religions (catholicism and various forms of protestantism), therefore, they don't see why Islam should be the exception. It is part of their right and tradition to criticize and satirize anything, particularly religion. In the current global context, offending people might not be the best diplomatic move, but then again it is an established tradition. Secondly, I am not convinced that America, a country notorious for being oblivious of what's going on elsewhere, has been influenced by European views. About tolerance: As several studies have shown, Muslims appear to be more integrated in France than in any other European countries, although, according to stereotypes and superficial media treatment, they seem to be badly treated. This deserves more careful analysis, besides the fact that there are 6 million Muslims in France, a country of 61 million. As a comparison, if there were 30 million Muslims in the US, I wonder what the political climate would be here???

Agr  09/07/2008 03:01 AM Report

Jualihrar Salamanca, don't forget the role that Europe has played in this whole affair. Indeed, it may be argued that America's misunderstanding of Islam stems from Europe's desecration of it. Americans are far more tolerant than Europeans, a fact that I can attest to as a Muslim currently residing in the USA.

Jualihrar Salamanca  09/06/2008 04:19 PM Report

The difficulty with this whole affair stems from the fact that terms like moderates, terrorists, extremist etc are all a product of a largely contrived worldview designed to advance a particular skewed narrative. The fact that all those who employ this particular set of terms in the Muslim World have put themselves in the service of foreign powers leaves the average person in the street unconvinced. Those purported moderates, in the mind of the average person on the street, are invariably beholden to foreign powers. They are the ones who support governments that routinely use the most terrible forms of violence, including torture and blackmail, to hold down the general population, in service of the selfish interests of foreign powers. In the mind of the average person on the street, these moderates are totally lacking in idealism, faith, honesty, conscience and any real sense of duty or humanity. They are a manifestation of everything that rapacity can dictate and perfidy can execute. In the mind of the average person on the street, those moderates are being impelled by their non-Muslim paymasters to compete for the role of spokespersons for Islam. Those purported moderates tell you that Islam has been hijacked by extremists. But, this exactly is what those purported moderates are being impelled, by their non-Muslim paymasters, to do. The truth remains that the purported extremists have demonstrated a very high sense of duty and idealism and willingness to sacrifice that no amount of money can produce in the purported moderates. Neither the purported extremist nor the moderates can hijack Islam. True, the United States was able to alter the religion of Japan at the point of the bayonet. It remains doubtful as to weather it can duplicate that feat with Islam. Unlike Shinto religion, the God of Islam is not human being one can point a pistol to his head and force him declare that he was no God. God speed for the moderates. Don’t lie too hard. Eh?

RE Mant  09/06/2008 12:10 AM Report

I suspect that the vast majority of Muslims, like the vast majority of Christians, are merely perfunctory observers and that most of the differences are more cultural than confessional, for instance, the Southern Baptists.