Muslims = Terrorists

It is very sad that these things happen but sadly they will. In the end it is prejudice and prejudice is making decisions based without logic, mostly done out of fear and hate. It is uneducated. Prejudice is found everywhere, not just in America, and some of the statements against Americans make me laugh because that is doing the same thing SOME Americans are doing to Muslims. Your assessments are prejudiced as well.

I know quite a few Muslims and even worked for one at a convenience store being a night manager for a year. I have nothing against anyone who is peaceful and the terms Muslim = Terrorist is just as false as the term Good = Christian. In other words, a few Muslims are terrorists...sure. There have been Christian terrorists too and groups are still active. If you don't believe me, do a google search sometime on Christian Terrorists and oh my...they exist! People are what they work at being and achieving. I'm not automatically anything because of what I affiliate myself with. I am who I am (as Popeye says) because of the actions I do and my own personal development and feelings. This is what I hold true for every individual I make decisions about. It can only be hoped that some day MORE people will learn to not judge others based on the examples of stupid people but instead learn to decide how a person is by that person's actions. The world would be a different place. Unfortunately though, prejudice is something that is habitual and everyone has a few things they will say or feel as generalizations until those issues are dealt with. Some biased opinions may never be even seen until someone else points it out.

Don't let it get to you. Not all Americans feel that way. I would sit by you on an airplane with no fear. Others would too.

 

No I certainly don't think what all muslims are terrorists but what troubles me is why must the women have to wear hijabs anyway? I know it's traditional and stuff and I respect that but just because you don't wear one doesn't mean you are promiscous and just because you do doesn't mean you're a terrorist.

If women wearing hijabs want people to stop think they are terrorists then they should stop think that those who don't are disrespectful loose women. Though none of this is fair, I kinda think it works both ways.

LOL

 

Why they wear it is because it is of their beliefs. Why do people wear spaghetti strapped blouses, or pants with boxers showing, or Buddhist monk attire, or priestly garments, or baseball caps, jeans,etc? Why do people grow their hair out long, shave their heads, get tattoos, piercings? Because it is their choice and right to wear and do to their bodies, what they want to do and it is an expression of who that person is. Women don't 'have' to wear hijabs here but if they want to, they should have every right to do so. Will they stand out? Sure they will. Will someone wearing a baseball cap backwards and jeans with their boxers showing stick out in a Muslim dominated area? Sure.

The point here really comes down to making people aware that just because someone dresses a certain way doesn't mean you should equate it with an automatic prejudiced stereotype such as what happens here with Muslim = Terrorist. Maybe if people would simply go over to the woman wearing more traditional Muslim garb and ask some questions, they'd find out that person, regardless of attire, is still an American, or citizen of wherever they move to.

This bias is also found in European countries. However, there are quite a few Muslims that are also prejudiced and I've seen both sides of the mistrust. There are some Muslim men that will date women in Sweden for example, and in America and other areas, and they treat those women like trash. Why? Because they consider them to not equate to a good Muslim woman. They are '****s' to some of these men because they will 'put out' whereas a Muslim woman 'should' wait until she is married. In the end, there are idiots on either side of the fence that show poor representations of the majority so it's up to the rest of us to try to amend that.

 

Yeah I know that they were it because of their faith it's not as if they wear them for fun. When I said why I meant what's the point of it in the first place, why does there faith require all these outward signs?? Faith is from within not from what you wear.

You talk of all these people getting tattoes and shaving heads and whatever else because they want to. Precisely. They actually want to. They weren't just born into it or forced to do it. They do it out of choice to reflect who they are. Not out of fear or because of their docility.

I was trying to make the point that it acts both ways. Neither group is entirely to blame. You talk as if I were pointing the finger at one in particular.

Yes I also live in a European country myself I live in the UK and have seen it first hand myself. A few of the lads try to mess around with us 'western' girls and then have the cheek to turn around and call us ****s and scoot off too their nice muslim fiancees. I for one, do not stand for it. I wouldn't be treated like a mistress nor a trophy wife/housekeeper.

Anyways, this is drifting from the topic at hand here. I'll just say that no I do not think all muslims are terrorists at all but sadly some people do and what I was just putting forwards one of the reasons why there seems to be such a feud going on.

 

I believe the religion requires the women to wear Hijabs. Besides I don not understand why people label women as terrorist in the first place. Not 2b sexist or anything but all the terrorist have been men.

 

No, they haven't. Most terrorists are men, but women have done terrorist acts too. Hamas in the Palestinian region has been training and using women terrorists and in the past there have been men and women terrorists in zealous Islamic groups and Christian groups and Jewish groups. In India there have been women terrorists in Kashmir and Jammu. Using a female or elderly person is a great way for terrorists to get at places where men are searched and examined more readily. It is not often employed but believe it happens. If someone is persistent enough they will use whatever means it takes to get a job done and fanatics are.

 

I was talking about the recent attacks on America.

 

okay...but not all terrorists are men. some are even women.

but, in Tyra, one lady said that the women with the hijab probably had brothers that would kill them.

 

That sucks...Just becauss your Muslim doesnt mean your a Terrorist!
Thats not fair!......

 

That is bole s***! Because u r Muslim doesn't mean u have relatives that r terrorists.

 

The idea that Islam itself itself is a terrorist organization is ridiculous. I'm amazed that some people think that. Not every Muslim is evil; just some overzealous crazies.

 

No, no :nono: I think you may have misunderstood me don't worry I wasn't saying that the women were terrorists I was comprehending why it might be that some people may accuse them of being one and then I added how I thought it wasn't fair that they had to wear them in the first place.