The people quoted here are outliers, not examples of the norm. Otherwise human civilization would have ceased to be by now...
Your very first link does in fact confirm what I wrote before:
The vast majority of Muslims of course have nothing to do with the insanity of such attacks except that they are disproportionately the victims of terrorism.
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Let’s also acknowledge that the most courageous, peace-loving people in the Middle East who are standing up to Muslim fanatics are themselves often devout Muslims. Some read the Quran and blow up girls’ schools, but more read the Quran and build girls’ schools. The Taliban represents one brand of Islam; the Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai the polar opposite.
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The great divide is not between faiths. Rather it is between terrorists and moderates, between those who are tolerant and those who “otherize.”
In Australia after the hostage crisis, some Muslims feared revenge attacks. Then a wave of non-Muslim Australians rose to the occasion, offering to escort Muslims and ensure their safety, using the hashtag #IllRideWithYou on Twitter. More than 250,000 such comments were posted on Twitter a model of big-hearted compassion after terror attacks.
You know who is the one doing the "otherizing" here? You.
Your second link is about victim-blaming. I don't get what it has to do with our discussion here.
Your third link is in my opinion rather "straw-manning", but it contains the following passage:
As much as I have differences with the contents of Islam's canonical texts, I know that most Muslims are good, peaceful people who have barely read the Quran and seldom follow it except for the occasional cherry-picking and hearsay, much like the adherents of any other religion.
Again, almost exactly what I said before.
The fourth link is about the FBI training courses using similar arguments as you do for painting all Muslims as extremists. The writer of the piece has this to say about that:
The FBI isn’t just treading on thin legal ice by portraying ordinary, observant Americans as terrorists-in-waiting, former counterterrorism agents say. It’s also playing into al-Qaida’s hands.
Focusing on the religious behavior of American citizens instead of proven indicators of criminal activity like stockpiling guns or using shady financing makes it more likely that the FBI will miss the real warning signs of terrorism. And depicting Islam as inseparable from political violence is exactly the narrative al-Qaida spins as is the related idea that America and Islam are necessarily in conflict.
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Not all counterterrorism veterans consider the briefings so benign. “Teaching counterterrorism operatives about obscure aspects of Islam,” says Robert McFadden, who recently retired as one of the Navy Criminal Investigative Service’s al-Qaida-hunters, “without context, without objectivity, and without covering other non-religious drivers of dangerous behavior is no way to stop actual terrorists.”
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“Seeing the materials FBI agents are being trained with certainly helps explain why we’ve seen so many inappropriate FBI surveillance operations broadly targeting the Muslim-American community, from infiltrating mosques with agents provocateur to racial- and ethnic-mapping programs,” Mike German, a former FBI agent now with the American Civil Liberties Union, tells Danger Room after being shown the documents. “Biased police training can only result in biased policing.”
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Too often, McFadden says, counterterrorism training becomes simultaneously over-broad and ignorant. “Instead of looking for indicators of nefarious behavior, you have a sweeping generalization of things like, for instance, the Hawala system,” McFadden explains. “It’s a system that most of the developing world and expatriates from it use to move money around, including terrorists. But you can’t say the whole hawala system is about terrorism, just like you can’t say that Islam as a whole has anything to do with bad behavior.”
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“Since September 11th, every one of our 56 field offices and the leadership of those offices have had outreach to the Muslim community,” Mueller said. “We need the support of that community
our business is basically relationships.” That is exactly the opposite message sent in the training rooms of Quantico, where the next generation of FBI counterterrorism is shaped.
Hm, it seems the experts agree with me.
I only skimmed the fifth link. It seems a bit nutty, trying to connect any crime ever committed by a Muslim to Islamism, but it also contains this passage:
Third, prove that talking about Islamism does not lead to perdition by establishing the costs of not naming the enemy and of not identifying Islamism as a factor; noting that Muslim governments, including the Saudi one, acknowledge that Islamism leads to terrorism; stressing that moderate Muslims who oppose Islamism want Islamism openly discussed; addressing the fear that frank talk about Islam alienates Muslims and spurs violence; and demonstrating that profiling can be done in a constitutionally approved way.
So even this guy admits that there not only Islamists, but also moderate Muslims.
Sorry, why did I just spent my time looking over articles which in broad terms agree with what I said so far (or at least didn't contradict it) and didn't provide any support for your claims?
And some football fans being racist, bigotted or simply embarassing? Colour me surprised. Again, assholes are everywhere. Doesn't mean everyone is an asshole.
We should be united in our hatred of religion, not arguing over semantics.
But no everyone here has a "hatred of religion", and especially not a hatred of religious people as you present it. This site is here to point out, argue against and laugh about fundyism. And more and more you are making clear that you are a fundie.
For what it's worth I am still on the fence if PG-13 was a Poe or not, but I am quite sure that you are honest at what you write, just wrong.
