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"I blame these increasing terror attacks on the current Islamophobia post-9/11" : Imran Khan

With such logic, the 3000 people cowardly killed on 911 deserved it. The hundreds cowardly killed in Mumbai deserved it because in both cases the murderers believed both nations(US and Ind) were guilty of killing innocent people and therefore deserved retribution.

No innocent person has any guilt because of association or because of citizenship. Anyone who uses such logic has an extremist mind and is not far off from justifying it.

And that’s the point. As long as there is rampant terrorism in the name of Islam, innocent people will die on both sides.

Thousands of innocent white men will die and in return, thousand of Muslims will lose their lives because of a white terrorist painting all Muslims with the same brush.

To cure this problem, the only solution is to eliminate the root-cause, and to find the root-cause, we have to consider why the majority of terrorists identify themselves with Islam.

However, it appears that Muslims are simply refusing to look inwards and attempt to understand why the foundation of the link between terrorist and Islam.

As long as we do not reach the depth of the problem, innocent people will continue to lose their lives.

You learn something new every day, and today I learned that attempting to understand the undeniable correlation between Islam and terrorism is seemingly an attempt to justify attacks on innocent Muslims. Wow.
 
An extremist is an extremist. Whether they claim to be Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, non-religious, Nazi etc, an extremist’s basic objectives and way of thinking are always pretty much the same.
 
An extremist is an extremist. Whether they claim to be Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, non-religious, Nazi etc, an extremist’s basic objectives and way of thinking are always pretty much the same.

I completely agree. However, why is it so that most of the extremists/terrorists identify themselves as Muslims?

Is there something in the teachings, or is there a problem in the education? Why do we refuse to look into the strong correlation between terrorism and Islam?
 
Guys do not get personal and abusive please. Feel free to express your points but in a civil manner.
 
Western world has looted and committed wars all over the world before the 9/11, and armed the likes of muhajadeens to fight their wars, and now the same mercenaries attack them Islam is blamed. They are still not learning and have been arming rebels in countries like Libya and Syria to overthrow their governments. It only becomes islamic terrorism when those hired killers start attacking their intetests.
 
I completely agree. However, why is it so that most of the extremists/terrorists identify themselves as Muslims?

Is there something in the teachings, or is there a problem in the education? Why do we refuse to look into the strong correlation between terrorism and Islam?

Who refuses? When it is pointed out the rise of Islamic terror correlates with the effect of Western foreign policy people refuse to accept this fact.

Do you think the victims of Western foreign policy in Iraq, Syria, and Libya want to grow up as teachers, engineers, policemen etc? No, they would want to avenge their loss.

This is why prior to 9/11 there was not such thing as Islamic terror.
 
I completely agree. However, why is it so that most of the extremists/terrorists identify themselves as Muslims?

Is there something in the teachings, or is there a problem in the education? Why do we refuse to look into the strong correlation between terrorism and Islam?

Better question would be despite causing two world wars, and many wars thereafter why is the western world refusing to stop destroying countries such as Iraq, Libya, Syria and many African countries. Is there some correlation between their religion or ideology and the mass murderes committed by them ?
 
Not only Imran, but 99.9% of the Muslims have been saying the same since 9/11. There is nothing unique about his comment and neither is it particularly insightful - it is simply a general statement that has been made a billion times by a billion people. Not sure why people are congratulating him for stating the obvious.

It is understandable that this attack - or any attack on Muslims - is considered as an outcome of the rising Islamophobia in the modern world, and the white supremacists who carry out these attacks are terrorists and should be called out for who they are.

Nevertheless, when it comes to Islamophobia, we need to identify its origins and its cause. This is of course not an attempt to justify it, but is simply an attempt to understand its prominence. Not everything can be justified, but there is always a reason for everything.

It is also important to put ourselves in the shoes of others and look at it from a different perspective. The vast majority of the terrorist organisations conduct these attacks in the name of Islam, and the vast majority of terrorists identify themselves as the true followers of Islam.

As Muslims, we are quick to dismiss that notion and claim that these people have nothing to do with Islam, and are following a version of the faith that cannot be further from the truth, since Islam is not a religion that propagates terrorism and violence.

However, you cannot expect the non-Muslim community to respect these intricacies and exhibit a clear understanding of the distinction between the version of Islam that the Islamic terrorists claim to follow (the minority) and the version of Islam that the majority of peaceful Muslims claim to follow.

When one particular religion or ideology is overwhelmingly prevalent when it comes to terrorism, it is inevitable that people will develop a degree of skepticism and will not have a favourable outlook towards that particular religion.

This is something that people who are quick to play the Islamophobia card need to understand. Yes it is true that the vast majority of Muslims have nothing to do with terrorism, but it is also true that the vast majority of terrorists claim to be Muslims and carry the banners of Islam. In a situation like this, how do you expect Islamophobia to not flourish?

If the followers of some other religion were so predominant when it comes to terrorism, a large portion of the people who now condemn Islamophobia would be making sweeping statements about that particular religion and its followers. In Pakistan, we are witnessing this practically when it comes to India.

Over the last few years, communal violence and religious discrimination have been on the rise in India. As a result, people in Pakistan have not been shy of making sweeping statements about how India has become an extremist country, the people are not tolerant, it is not a safe country for Muslims etc. etc.

They do not show any sensitivity and regard to the fact that the vast majority of Hindus in India are tolerant and peace-loving, and thus it would be a generalisation to put these labels on India based on the actions of a minority of Hindus.

Our views on India these days are no different to the views of the so-called Islamophobes, and thus we are clearly showing traits of Hindu/Indophobia. However, because of our collective biases, we fail to practice what we preach and unfortunately, have lost the ability to recognise our double-standards and hypocrisy as well.

I believe that sweeping everything under the carpet as Islamophobia and playing the "if it is a brown man he is a terrorist, if it is a white man he is mentally deranged" card is not the solution to this problem.

No problem can ever be solved without recognising the problem and understanding the symptoms. Islamophobia and the general stereotyping of Muslims is not the root cause of Islamic terrorism; it is the result of the fact that the vast majority of terrorists and terrorist organisations identify themselves as Muslims.

We Muslims and the Muslim countries also need to look inwards and recognise the elements within the teachings of Islam that when taken out of context, can lead to extremist ideologies. After all, these terrorist organisations frequently quote the teachings of Islam to defend and justify their actions, and how all of this is simply an act of jihad which is the duty of every Muslim.

Not a single terrorist that has identified himself as a Muslim has ever claimed that his actions are not in line with Islamic teachings, and thus, within the teachings of Islam, there is undeniable potential of misinterpretation that have sowed the seeds for terrorism and extremism.

As a result, instead of accusing the world of Islamophobia and giving protection to terrorists and militants for the sake of geopolitics, it is important for Muslim leaders to do more and promote the peaceful version of Islam, not only through awareness but by adopting a zero-tolerance policy. This is the only long-term solution of putting an end to Islamophobia.

It will only flourish as long as we (the Muslims) sit and do nothing apart from condemning it, while the majority of the terror attacks are conducted in the name of Islam. That is what has happened post 9/11 and this what is going to happen in the future if we don't change our ways.

You really need to learn to be more considerate. Your post is full of absolute filth! You didn't for one second condemn the attack, what kind of monster are you? Dude people lost their lives...fathers, mothers, kids, uncles, aunties, etc! Have some f'en shame! All you can think about is blaming Islam and how Islamaphobia is to be blamed on muslims. Who needs enemeies, when people like you exist. If it wasn't for the rules of this forum...
 
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Just start with cleaning up the terrorist camps supported by the establishment in Pakistan. Until some solid action is taken, none will take these empty words seriously.

This is just an example.

This attack took place in New Zealand, the victims were not terrorists, or even Pakistanis for the most part. If you read any of the literature or quotes from the organisations to which the perpetrators of this attack belong, then you would know that the justification for this attack was to stop 'invasion' of Muslims. The attacker in question spoke of meeting his fellow neo-nazis in Valhalla after his victorious mission. Do you honestly think they wouldn't just as happily turn the guns on you and your ilk given half the chance?
 
9/11 is still the reason why all following wars took place. IK is right is saying it changed thee whole world forever. Even though all perpetrators were Arab's all Muslim the Muslim community has paid the price for Arab crimes.
 
I completely agree. However, why is it so that most of the extremists/terrorists identify themselves as Muslims?

Is there something in the teachings, or is there a problem in the education? Why do we refuse to look into the strong correlation between terrorism and Islam?

Terrorism is an English term, why would there be a strong correlation between 'terrorism' and Islam?
 
To [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] I'd argue nobody doubts the need for discussion and soul searching (of which there's plenty of) about the root causes of Islamist extremism. However in the last two years Islamist extremism has been massively degraded with ISIS almost completely destroyed. Meanwhile white supremacists attacks have soared. In the US the FBI data shows 73% of domestic terrorism between 9/11 and 2016 are from white supremacists.

You ask why. It's not from legitimate concern about Islamist extremism, but the growth of a toxic internet subculture that sees white, angry, misanthropic, racist young men on sites like Reddit, 4Chan, Brietbart and YouTube where they reinforce each others' prejudices. With an increasingly assertive and confident ethnic minority community in the West (London has its first Muslim mayor, the US elected its first black female Muslim to Congress), these folks think white males are "oppressed" and under siege, and facing a "white genocide". This "white rage" and sense of loss of privilege has been egged on and exploited by opportunitistic far-right politicians like Trump, Le Pen, Salvini and others.

THAT is the root cause. The authorities need to crackdown on online hate sites and ensure the social media companies not only step up moderating their content but change their algorithms to prevent users from seeing extremist material as suggested content.
 
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Not only Imran, but 99.9% of the Muslims have been saying the same since 9/11. There is nothing unique about his comment and neither is it particularly insightful - it is simply a general statement that has been made a billion times by a billion people. Not sure why people are congratulating him for stating the obvious.

because he has gained positive media attention in the west, and it would be easy enough to not raise the point than risk potential antagonism on the issue.

Nevertheless, when it comes to Islamophobia, we need to identify its origins and its cause. ............. The vast majority of the terrorist organisations conduct these attacks in the name of Islam, and the vast majority of terrorists identify themselves as the true followers of Islam.

do you really want to discuss the origins of muslim terror groups, cos if you are i think a discussion on the fall of communism, its replacement with islamic terror in afghanistan and subsequently (post balkan wars) in the narrative of the enemy of the west are very intriguing, or are you trying to lead the conversation towards your actual message?

When one particular religion or ideology is overwhelmingly prevalent when it comes to terrorism, it is inevitable that people will develop a degree of skepticism and will not have a favourable outlook towards that particular religion.

This is something that people who are quick to play the Islamophobia card need to understand. Yes it is true that the vast majority of Muslims have nothing to do with terrorism, but it is also true that the vast majority of terrorists claim to be Muslims and carry the banners of Islam.

has more to do with the modern definition of the word terrorist, historically most "terrorist" movements were far left, atheist, latin american.

are farc, south sudanese rebels, or pro russian separatists in Ukraine muslim? when afghan war lords employ militias to protect their drug trade are they really any different to Mexican narco traffickers?

prior to the afghan communism / islam replacement there were sporadic terrorist acts in the name of Islam, yet you cannot deny the fact that since that period activities of mercenaries and militias using Islam to propagate their message has increase exponentially.

If the followers of some other religion were so predominant when it comes to terrorism, a large portion of the people who now condemn Islamophobia would be making sweeping statements about that particular religion and its followers. In Pakistan, we are witnessing this practically when it comes to India.

thats because most people dont think critically, that does not excuse intellectual laziness on ur part though.

Over the last few years, communal violence and religious discrimination have been on the rise in India. As a result, people in Pakistan have not been shy of making sweeping statements about how India has become an extremist country, the people are not tolerant, it is not a safe country for Muslims etc. etc.

They do not show any sensitivity and regard to the fact that the vast majority of Hindus in India are tolerant and peace-loving, and thus it would be a generalisation to put these labels on India based on the actions of a minority of Hindus.

Our views on India these days are no different to the views of the so-called Islamophobes, and thus we are clearly showing traits of Hindu/Indophobia. However, because of our collective biases, we fail to practice what we preach and unfortunately, have lost the ability to recognise our double-standards and hypocrisy as well.

again intellectual laziness, pakistan and india have a long history of mutual acrimony, you cannot use it as an analogy, or reflection of the supposed biases of a white supremacist shooting up muslims in new zealand.

I believe that sweeping everything under the carpet as Islamophobia and playing the "if it is a brown man he is a terrorist, if it is a white man he is mentally deranged" card is not the solution to this problem.

No problem can ever be solved without recognising the problem and understanding the symptoms. Islamophobia and the general stereotyping of Muslims is not the root cause of Islamic terrorism; it is the result of the fact that the vast majority of terrorists and terrorist organisations identify themselves as Muslims.

not quite, it is that the vast majority of Muslim rebel and criminal groups are considered terrorists (especially in terms of media coverage), whereas non muslim rebel and criminal groups usually aren't.

your willingness to bandy about the terms takes away from the fact that you have an actual point, i.e. why is it so easy for certain groups to use islam to indoctrinate and recruit fighters (again a topic for another time)

We Muslims and the Muslim countries also need to look inwards and recognise the elements within the teachings of Islam that when taken out of context, can lead to extremist ideologies. After all, these terrorist organisations frequently quote the teachings of Islam to defend and justify their actions, and how all of this is simply an act of jihad which is the duty of every Muslim.

Not a single terrorist that has identified himself as a Muslim has ever claimed that his actions are not in line with Islamic teachings, and thus, within the teachings of Islam, there is undeniable potential of misinterpretation that have sowed the seeds for terrorism and extremism.

but what about the history of terrorism where atheists, jews, and christians believed they were "martyrs" too. terrorism is not a new phenomenon, and the causes are well known.

poverty, a lack of education, a lack of purpose and / or no immediate aspirations.

religion and ideologies are just tools to give the disaffected a sense of purpose, the specificity of the ideology in a historical context is largely irrelevant.

As a result, instead of accusing the world of Islamophobia and giving protection to terrorists and militants for the sake of geopolitics, it is important for Muslim leaders to do more and promote the peaceful version of Islam, not only through awareness but by adopting a zero-tolerance policy. This is the only long-term solution of putting an end to Islamophobia.

there's people in america who would still call an advocate of a larger state a commie. the idea that reformation, or reinterpretation would somehow appease the most ignorant in society is wishful to say the least.

It will only flourish as long as we (the Muslims) sit and do nothing apart from condemning it, while the majority of the terror attacks are conducted in the name of Islam. That is what has happened post 9/11 and this what is going to happen in the future if we don't change our ways.

what are people sitting at home stressing about their next pay check supposed to do. stop playing identity politics dude, theres 1.5 billion muslims, who by and large believe islam advocates armed resistance against tyranny they not gonna stop because of your interpretation, and good luck trying to explain the justification or lack there of, of each particular current conflict in Muslim majority countries.



i actually dont disagree with everything you wrote, but your excessively verbose and patronising style of prose borders on arrogance, which coupled with your, lets say, loose grip on historic contextualisation makes ur argument fairly unpleasant to read.
 
Think the point was its Muslims who have brought it on themselves. Obviously very attractive to some people.

Sir, that wasn't the point. Point was to point out the flaw in Imran's statement. Putting everything on 9/11 and completely ignoring what has happened since then is basically condoning all of the dastardly attacks carried out by Muslims ( unfortunate as it is) .
I don't think he is blaming other muslims. Blaming innocent Muslims is illogical and criminal.
 
It appears that people are still convinced that I have not expressed any sympathy for the innocent victims, which is ironic since the whole point of my argument is to find a cure to Islamophobia.

It also seems that people are convinced that that root-cause of the high correlation between Islam and terrorism is largely due to western imperialism and the image of Islam that has been projected in the minds of the white supremacists. Both are fair arguments, but I am afraid they do not explain why the image of Islam is what it is today.

There is always a hint of truth in every generalisation/stereotype. The attitude of the common Muslim today, i.e. there is nothing wrong with the Muslim community in general and we have been victimised by Western conspiracy for a multitude of reasons is simply not helpful.

This viewpoint has been driven by the Islamic belief that Islam is the one and only truth. Once you believe that only you are right and everyone else is wrong, you are no longer capable of exhibiting any flexibility and will not be open to criticism or to admitting your own shortcomings.

This very clear distinction between us and them has projected this image in the minds of Muslims that the whole world is out there to get us because we are the heroes and they are the villains, and the whole world is actively working against us simply because they fear the might of Islam and how it is going to take over the world.

As a result, we very conveniently dump all our failings and shortcomings on others. For a Muslim, blaming others has become so easy that he or she has lost the ability to look inwards. I believe that one of the major reasons why today, Islam has unfortunately become synonymous with organised terrorism and extremism is our decline as a civilisation.

I would quote my post from another thread which sheds some light on this topic:

I may have some soul searching to do, but I believe Muslims in general also need to look inwards and try to understand why they are in the position that they are today.

This attitude that there is nothing wrong with us and we are simply victims of conspiracy and hate will not take us anywhere, especially when the correlation between Islam and terrorism is high and most Muslim countries are a basket case.

Indeed, Islamophobia is an old phenomenon. It can be traced back to the time where it emerged as a major organized religion and was perceived as a major threat by Christianity and Judaism, the two predominant Abrahamic religions.

Not only did this new religion spread like wildfire, it also changed the dynamics world power.

From the various caliphates to regional empires, the several dynasties in Iran, the Mamluks in the middle-east, the Ottomans, the Mali Empire, the Almoravid’s in North Africa, as well as powers in europe and south/south-east Asia etc. etc., Islam was synonymous with dominance and power, and the crusades carried out against them were largely unsuccessful except for the ones in Western Europe.

However, since the balance of power shifted around World War I, Muslims and Muslim countries have been carted around. We can no longer dictate terms and have been reduced to puppets.

In the last 100 years, what has been our great contribution to the world? We have contributed zilch to science, technology, education etc. In spite of making up 25% of the global population, we have only produce 2 Nobel laureates, and one of them is an Ahmadi Muslim from Pakistan whose name has been whitewashed from the history of this country because of his religious beliefs.

Of course, our answer to everything is that we are victims of a grand conspiracy by the Western world who cannot afford fo see the resurgence of the Islamic Golden Age.

Whilst it is important to have a historical outlook on Islamophobia, it is equally important to appreciate the vastly different dynamics that have changed the nature of the prejudice.

The collective decline of the Islamic world where today is largely associated with terrorism and extremism more than anything has played no small part in cultivating what is essentially the modern Islamophobia.

Simply accusing the West of Islamophobia and crying foul will not change anything. Innocent Muslims will continue to die and people with no links with terrorism will continue to pay the price. People can celebrate generic statements by Imran Khan and other Muslim leaders until there is another attack on innocent Muslims by an angry white man with easy access to ammunition.

Instead of tweeting generic comments, Imran Khan would make a bigger contribution to the projection of a positive image of Islam by glorifying someone like Abdus Salam, one of Pakistan's greatest sons.

A brilliant mind whose name has been wiped out from the history of Pakistan because he was an Ahmadi Muslim. Imran Khan should glorify him to an extent where every child in Pakistan is inspired by his achievements and develops a keen interest in the world of science.

How much money does Pakistan spend on R&D? Instead of allotting properties worth millions of rupees to each Army General on retirement, we could better utilise some of that money by investing in R&D.

Not only Pakistan, but what have other Muslim countries and cultures contributed to science, technology, medicine and education in the last 100 years?

Of course, it is easy for us to overlook our incompetencies by accusing the West of conspiring against us, but until we realise that unless we make big strides in the aforementioned fields, the perception of Islam and Muslims will not change, and the words Islam and Muslims will continue to be largely synonymous with extremism.
 
Not a single tweet by Modi on this. Showing true colors again, can only use terrorism for political gains and nothing more. Gandhi must be rolling in his grave.
 
It also seems that people are convinced that that root-cause of the high correlation between Islam and terrorism is largely due to western imperialism and the image of Islam that has been projected in the minds of the white supremacists. Both are fair arguments, but I am afraid they do not explain why the image of Islam is what it is today.

It is hard to address all the issues in one place because some things might skip my mind and also i might not know all the details. But i'll still attempt to answer this.

Why doesn't it explain to you why image of muslims is bad today? It is clear that Western imperialists especially neo-colonialists needed to demonise the Islamic faith and muslims in order to justify their presence in strategically important and resource rich muslim nations. USA in particular is a war economy. They cannot sustain their lifestyle because their economy grew at an exponential growth rate which is impossible to maintain except through "alternative" methods like looting and plundering, installing puppets which will make exploitable policies for them. Who created all these dictatorships in the middle east? The CIA proudly called themselves as the king makers. The western military industrial complex grew beyond limits during the world wars and the cold war. All this investment into weapons could not be allowed to go to waste and hence they created conflicts and sold weapons to all parties involved. When India-China war took place in 1960s, Pakistan wanted to attack India and annex Kashmir. Pakistan was provided weapons and tanks by USA and Pak wanted to take advantage of its equipment superiority over India which was already getting a thrashing by China. However, USA ordered Pakistan to back off and attack after the Sino-Indian war ended. When India and Pakistan went to war in 1965, Pakistani generals found out that Indians had now been provided with the exact same weapons and tanks that only Pakistan previously had. You should notice one thing next time, whenever there is an ounce of peace between any two rival nations or groups, there would suddenly occur a bomb blast or a terrorist attack which would hamper all progress. This is not a coincidence. Follow the money. These are not cooked up conspiracy theories, these are well documented events.

The west has a strong media and we all know that. They have utilized it well to project muslims as savages. Every great thing can be used and misused. Similarly every religious scripture has the potential to be used for good as well as bad. The west has used the differences we have in the interpretations of our scriptures, in our ethnic make up, basically any difference that the body of muslims had was used to create divisions among them. Our enemies know
the trigger points which incite us. In modern psychological warfare it is called mind mapping.

Islam forbade Assabiyyah which is divisions based on nationality, race, caste etc. The facilitation of the rise of Wahabbism by the British in 1700s completely shifted the approach which muslims had towards dealing with conflicts. From using military muscle to get justice, a particular group started using it to get revenge. Unity was taken away from us and we were given the gift of nation states especially after the breakdown of Ottoman Khilafat. We have not recovered from these divisions. When you look at Islam, you have to look at every single aspect and dimension which works in tandem with each other to created a smooth system in totality. However, what we see today is that muslim nations have tried to impose certain aspects of Islam on a foreign system (democracy or otherwise). How do we expect it to work smoothly? In Islam we have a belief that Khilafat cannot be usurped even if your rulers are evil. The wisdom behind this is that usurping Khilafat will worsen the condition of muslims compared to what it was before. And that is exactly what happened to us. We are weaker than anytime in our history, slaughtered by the millions, impoverished, divided, infighting with each other. All of this has been used by the western media to present muslim world as a hell hole. People have been desensitized towards muslim suffering now. It is shown as something that we have brought upon ourselves. The concept of Jihad has been absolutely demonised. As a muslim, you would know that military Jihad is a very small part of the overall concept of Jihad. And military jihad is only a "just war". However, this has been presented as the core of Islam. By the way, their next target is Venezuela which incidently has the largest reserves of oil in the entire world. Now Venezuela suddenly needs democracy.

This is not to say that muslims arent to be blamed. Muslims are definitely at fault for allowing this to happen and not taking enough measures to prevent it. We have failed to produce enough intellectual firepower which can present our side of the story to the world. Instead we have nutters with half baked knowledge who represent us and embarrass us. These are the people who are given more air time by western media as well. All of this has combined to malign the image of muslims and Islam.

This viewpoint has been driven by the Islamic belief that Islam is the one and only truth. Once you believe that only you are right and everyone else is wrong, you are no longer capable of exhibiting any flexibility and will not be open to criticism or to admitting your own shortcomings.

This very clear distinction between us and them has projected this image in the minds of Muslims that the whole world is out there to get us because we are the heroes and they are the villains, and the whole world is actively working against us simply because they fear the might of Islam and how it is going to take over the world.

As a result, we very conveniently dump all our failings and shortcomings on others. For a Muslim, blaming others has become so easy that he or she has lost the ability to look inwards. I believe that one of the major reasons why today, Islam has unfortunately become synonymous with organised terrorism and extremism is our decline as a civilisation.

I think you are presenting a very narrow view here. Every Organised religion believes it is the ultimate truth, not just Islam. If this is not the case, then there would be no point of calling religions by different names. There are differences and we do believe that we have the ultimate truth. Just like Christians and Jews believe they have the ultimate truth. However, in past we used to debate these differences as per the requirements of the time and era. From era to era methods of propagation of religion went from public debates to world exploration to scientific advancements to literature and poetry. We used to do well in every era but now we have fallen behind by lightyears in the contemporary era.

Hence in my opinion, the differences will always be there between different religions. Almost every religion claims it is the truth. This was always the case and isnt something new. To pin bad image of muslims on this is very simplistic and quite clearly an effect of biased media and literature which singles out Islam for it while it is really the norm for all religions.
 
It also seems that people are convinced that that root-cause of the high correlation between Islam and terrorism is largely due to western imperialism and the image of Islam that has been projected in the minds of the white supremacists. Both are fair arguments, but I am afraid they do not explain why the image of Islam is what it is today.

"Why is muslim image bad"

"There is no bias"

"You are seeing things because of anger"
 

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What is wrong with the headline?

The inherent white supremacy that white people are angelic and only due to wrongdoings of society the grow up to be killers. Have never seen the word angelic used for muslim or any coloured criminals. How would the families of victims feel after seeing this headline? Pretty insensitive of you to even ask what is wrong with that.
 
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The inherent white supremacy that white people are angelic and only due to wrongdoings of society the grow up to be killers. Have never seen the word angelic used for muslim or any coloured criminals. How would the families of victims feel after seeing this headline? Pretty insensitive of you to even ask what is wrong with that.

I think you are reading too much into it. The young kid in the dad's arms looks angelic. The headline calls the grown up as evil and mass killer. I don't see any justification or white supremacy in the headline.
 
I think you are reading too much into it. The young kid in the dad's arms looks angelic. The headline calls the grown up as evil and mass killer. I don't see any justification or white supremacy in the headline.

I am not reading too much into it. I am stating the obvious deep rooted bias here. Be honest, have you ever seen a non-white terrorist described as "angelic in his childhood" ever? There is an underlying ideology here that whites cannot be evil and something must have gone wrong for him to act like this. Not to mention that such reporting brings sympathy to these terrorists. Posting their pictures as kids, with their parents etc. is an attempt to make people feel bad for them. On the other hand, people of colour are called monsters, evil etc. Just imagine how the victims' families would feel seeing such a headline.
 
It is hard to address all the issues in one place because some things might skip my mind and also i might not know all the details. But i'll still attempt to answer this.

Why doesn't it explain to you why image of muslims is bad today? It is clear that Western imperialists especially neo-colonialists needed to demonise the Islamic faith and muslims in order to justify their presence in strategically important and resource rich muslim nations. USA in particular is a war economy. They cannot sustain their lifestyle because their economy grew at an exponential growth rate which is impossible to maintain except through "alternative" methods like looting and plundering, installing puppets which will make exploitable policies for them. Who created all these dictatorships in the middle east? The CIA proudly called themselves as the king makers. The western military industrial complex grew beyond limits during the world wars and the cold war. All this investment into weapons could not be allowed to go to waste and hence they created conflicts and sold weapons to all parties involved. When India-China war took place in 1960s, Pakistan wanted to attack India and annex Kashmir. Pakistan was provided weapons and tanks by USA and Pak wanted to take advantage of its equipment superiority over India which was already getting a thrashing by China. However, USA ordered Pakistan to back off and attack after the Sino-Indian war ended. When India and Pakistan went to war in 1965, Pakistani generals found out that Indians had now been provided with the exact same weapons and tanks that only Pakistan previously had. You should notice one thing next time, whenever there is an ounce of peace between any two rival nations or groups, there would suddenly occur a bomb blast or a terrorist attack which would hamper all progress. This is not a coincidence. Follow the money. These are not cooked up conspiracy theories, these are well documented events.

The west has a strong media and we all know that. They have utilized it well to project muslims as savages. Every great thing can be used and misused. Similarly every religious scripture has the potential to be used for good as well as bad. The west has used the differences we have in the interpretations of our scriptures, in our ethnic make up, basically any difference that the body of muslims had was used to create divisions among them. Our enemies know
the trigger points which incite us. In modern psychological warfare it is called mind mapping.

Islam forbade Assabiyyah which is divisions based on nationality, race, caste etc. The facilitation of the rise of Wahabbism by the British in 1700s completely shifted the approach which muslims had towards dealing with conflicts. From using military muscle to get justice, a particular group started using it to get revenge. Unity was taken away from us and we were given the gift of nation states especially after the breakdown of Ottoman Khilafat. We have not recovered from these divisions. When you look at Islam, you have to look at every single aspect and dimension which works in tandem with each other to created a smooth system in totality. However, what we see today is that muslim nations have tried to impose certain aspects of Islam on a foreign system (democracy or otherwise). How do we expect it to work smoothly? In Islam we have a belief that Khilafat cannot be usurped even if your rulers are evil. The wisdom behind this is that usurping Khilafat will worsen the condition of muslims compared to what it was before. And that is exactly what happened to us. We are weaker than anytime in our history, slaughtered by the millions, impoverished, divided, infighting with each other. All of this has been used by the western media to present muslim world as a hell hole. People have been desensitized towards muslim suffering now. It is shown as something that we have brought upon ourselves. The concept of Jihad has been absolutely demonised. As a muslim, you would know that military Jihad is a very small part of the overall concept of Jihad. And military jihad is only a "just war". However, this has been presented as the core of Islam. By the way, their next target is Venezuela which incidently has the largest reserves of oil in the entire world. Now Venezuela suddenly needs democracy.

This is not to say that muslims arent to be blamed. Muslims are definitely at fault for allowing this to happen and not taking enough measures to prevent it. We have failed to produce enough intellectual firepower which can present our side of the story to the world. Instead we have nutters with half baked knowledge who represent us and embarrass us. These are the people who are given more air time by western media as well. All of this has combined to malign the image of muslims and Islam.



I think you are presenting a very narrow view here. Every Organised religion believes it is the ultimate truth, not just Islam. If this is not the case, then there would be no point of calling religions by different names. There are differences and we do believe that we have the ultimate truth. Just like Christians and Jews believe they have the ultimate truth. However, in past we used to debate these differences as per the requirements of the time and era. From era to era methods of propagation of religion went from public debates to world exploration to scientific advancements to literature and poetry. We used to do well in every era but now we have fallen behind by lightyears in the contemporary era.

Hence in my opinion, the differences will always be there between different religions. Almost every religion claims it is the truth. This was always the case and isnt something new. To pin bad image of muslims on this is very simplistic and quite clearly an effect of biased media and literature which singles out Islam for it while it is really the norm for all religions.

Very good post and puts many things in perspective. Also it is easy to know why Islam is seen as evil because it forbids many sick and immoral practices that is now enjoyed in modern world in name of liberalism and good time. Following Islam is hard work for them like praying 5 times a day, fasting, for 30 days, compulsory zakat. dressing approproately, rules concerning sex, being fearful of going to hell for your bad acts etc etc. So it is easier to rubbish the whole Islam belief and live merrily without having any guilty conscious.
 
I am not reading too much into it. I am stating the obvious deep rooted bias here. Be honest, have you ever seen a non-white terrorist described as "angelic in his childhood" ever? There is an underlying ideology here that whites cannot be evil and something must have gone wrong for him to act like this. Not to mention that such reporting brings sympathy to these terrorists. Posting their pictures as kids, with their parents etc. is an attempt to make people feel bad for them. On the other hand, people of colour are called monsters, evil etc. Just imagine how the victims' families would feel seeing such a headline.

For me the headline read like "cute kid who turned out to be a monster adult". I didn't feel any sympathy after seeing the kid.

This statement of yours:There is an underlying ideology here that whites cannot be evil and something must have gone wrong for him to act like this, does not follow from the headline and it is your anti white bias speaking.
 
The inherent white supremacy that white people are angelic and only due to wrongdoings of society the grow up to be killers. Have never seen the word angelic used for muslim or any coloured criminals. How would the families of victims feel after seeing this headline? Pretty insensitive of you to even ask what is wrong with that.

1. The DailyMail is far more rightwing than the Mirror;
2. It's more popular than the Mirror.

Yet they've used a similar headline here.


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1. The DailyMail is far more rightwing than the Mirror;
2. It's more popular than the Mirror.

Yet they've used a similar headline here.


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Okay. I stand corrected that they have used similar words in other instances as well. However, I would say the same for other instances as well. These words are not appropriate in any case.
 
Very good post and puts many things in perspective. Also it is easy to know why Islam is seen as evil because it forbids many sick and immoral practices that is now enjoyed in modern world in name of liberalism and good time. Following Islam is hard work for them like praying 5 times a day, fasting, for 30 days, compulsory zakat. dressing approproately, rules concerning sex, being fearful of going to hell for your bad acts etc etc. So it is easier to rubbish the whole Islam belief and live merrily without having any guilty conscious.

You are right. And muslims openly practice their beliefs and are proud that their faith prohibits these social evils rather than being cowed down by pressure of globalization.
 
For me the headline read like "cute kid who turned out to be a monster adult". I didn't feel any sympathy after seeing the kid.

This statement of yours:There is an underlying ideology here that whites cannot be evil and something must have gone wrong for him to act like this, does not follow from the headline and it is your anti white bias speaking.

I am not anti-white. I am anti-white supremacy because it is based on racism and not merit. If you didnt feel sympathy then that is just you.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A big part of d blame for Christchurch killings should rest with us & d “Propaganda” Media. We had conveniently branded Muslims as oppressive to gain applause from d majority of d Indian gallery on social media & get TV ratings. For me secularism is the best thing about democracy</p>— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) <a href="https://twitter.com/GautamGambhir/status/1106754750748475393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Is this real? Seeing the light finally :)
 
The fact that 9/11 was a false flag makes it even more ridiculous, before 9/11 there was 1 suicide bombings in Pakistan, this whole war on terror was started on lies and only caused more misery for the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A big part of d blame for Christchurch killings should rest with us & d “Propaganda” Media. We had conveniently branded Muslims as oppressive to gain applause from d majority of d Indian gallery on social media & get TV ratings. For me secularism is the best thing about democracy</p>— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) <a href="https://twitter.com/GautamGambhir/status/1106754750748475393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sadly, this is just an election campagin stunt by him...considering his past history.

Don't think he's "seeing the light"
 
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This is more odd than Mamoon bashing pti for 5 years and voting for them on election day lol
 
This attack took place in New Zealand, the victims were not terrorists, or even Pakistanis for the most part. If you read any of the literature or quotes from the organisations to which the perpetrators of this attack belong, then you would know that the justification for this attack was to stop 'invasion' of Muslims. The attacker in question spoke of meeting his fellow neo-nazis in Valhalla after his victorious mission. Do you honestly think they wouldn't just as happily turn the guns on you and your ilk given half the chance?

I just gave an example. There have been numerous terror attacks conducted by Muslim extremists recently. There would always be a backlash from extremists of other side. If you think this incident has nothing to do with global terrorism then you are wrong. It was a reaction from the truck attack in Stockholm. Muslims did not bring it upon themselves but Muslim extremists did who have totally screwed the rest of the Muslim world since 9/11.
 
I just gave an example. There have been numerous terror attacks conducted by Muslim extremists recently. There would always be a backlash from extremists of other side. If you think this incident has nothing to do with global terrorism then you are wrong. It was a reaction from the truck attack in Stockholm. Muslims did not bring it upon themselves but Muslim extremists did who have totally screwed the rest of the Muslim world since 9/11.

Just to add to what you said: it (the violence) goes way back. Probably as far as humanity's origin.

Both the Australian guy and the Norwegian guy possess the same mentality as the Al Qaeda terrorists.

If you read this Australian guy's manifesto you will realize that he's got a very wrong idea about the good ol' days. They've this glorious image of Europe of middle ages.

Middle ages were dark. And repugnant times.

A stupid example, Europeans didn't believe in taking many baths. In Spain, there was this queen in 14th/15th century who ever took 4 baths in her life :facepalm: These lost and sick minds think that old times were like Orlando Bloom's movie :facepalm:

Muslims (and especially Pakistanis) have suffered a lot of terrorism. And we are still suffering it.

Yet some enlightened ones are blaming the victims who have lost their children to this madness :facepalm: hiding behind pathetic and baseless arguments, of course.
 
Mamoon will be tearing down his poster from the wall. :(

What is so surprising about the fact that he has condemned this attack?

Gambhir is a fierce critic of Pakistan’s state policy, but that doesn’t make him anti-Muslim or a supporter of white supremacy.

Essentially, he is no different to the various posters on this forum who are prepared to go to any lengths to defend their country no matter what.

I don’t have his poster on my wall because I have little respect for people who refuse to look inwards and are always quick to blame others.
 
Nevertheless, I believe I have an explanation for why so many people are surprised to see Gambhir condemning this attack and Islamophobia in general.

Throughout the course of its history, Pakistan and Pakistani people have equated criticism of Pakistan and Pakistanis with criticism of Islam and Muslims.

Henceforth, anyone who is deemed as anti-Pakistan is automatically anti-Islam as well.

We are self-appointed custodians of Islam, and it is a result of the events, circumstances and more importantly, the ideologies that have led to the formation of this country.

However, this attitude is the very reason why have fought other countries’ wars at our expense and have gained nothing out of it.

If our people were not laboring under the delusions that Pakistan is a custodian of Islam, they would not be surprised to note that an anti-Pakistan individual like Gambhir can also be pro-Muslim.

Unfortunately, we are confused because of our misplaced beliefs and have no idea what to make of Gambhir’s tweet. As a result, some think he is playing to the galleries while others think he has turned a corner.

I pity them.
 
Nevertheless, I believe I have an explanation for why so many people are surprised to see Gambhir condemning this attack and Islamophobia in general.

Throughout the course of its history, Pakistan and Pakistani people have equated criticism of Pakistan and Pakistanis with criticism of Islam and Muslims.

Henceforth, anyone who is deemed as anti-Pakistan is automatically anti-Islam as well.

We are self-appointed custodians of Islam, and it is a result of the events, circumstances and more importantly, the ideologies that have led to the formation of this country.

However, this attitude is the very reason why have fought other countries’ wars at our expense and have gained nothing out of it.

If our people were not laboring under the delusions that Pakistan is a custodian of Islam, they would not be surprised to note that an anti-Pakistan individual like Gambhir can also be pro-Muslim.

Unfortunately, we are confused because of our misplaced beliefs and have no idea what to make of Gambhir’s tweet. As a result, some think he is playing to the galleries while others think he has turned a corner.

I pity them.

Good post. Although Gambhir is not reliable and is a bonafide tool bag, I agree with your logic in general. I believe Pakistan doesn't have the right to be the custodian of Islam. I also firmly believe Pakistan would have been a great custodian if things turned out a bit differently.

Pakistan with jihadi elements roaming freely and through institutional support for the same jihadi elements has been in the news for the wrong reasons for almost 3 decades now. They are perceived as the hotbed for grooming these pests with training and material support. Every neighbor or Pakistan - Iran, India, Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of this. They cannot be the custodian of a religion that portrays the convoluted versions of the religion.

Compared to other major Islamic nations, educated Pakistanis are reasonably liberal with progressive womens rights and follow rule of law. They could have been the custodian of the religion and there by drive womens rights across the Muslim world and be an example in equal rights and scientific growth. It's a lost chance and opportunity. Indulging in wars against Muslims and then supporting materially the same Muslims in the background has ruined Pakistan's credibility as a leader of Islam. That's what happens when selfish political system makes decisions with only one purpose - to fill their coffers.
 
Katie Hopkins has shared her views on the Christchurch attack in a lengthy blog post.

I won’t share here, but for me it had echoes of Mamoon’s original extended post in this thread.
 
Katie Hopkins has shared her views on the Christchurch attack in a lengthy blog post.

I won’t share here, but for me it had echoes of Mamoon’s original extended post in this thread.

and that doesn’t surprise me at all.
 
Nevertheless, I believe I have an explanation for why so many people are surprised to see Gambhir condemning this attack and Islamophobia in general.

Throughout the course of its history, Pakistan and Pakistani people have equated criticism of Pakistan and Pakistanis with criticism of Islam and Muslims.

Henceforth, anyone who is deemed as anti-Pakistan is automatically anti-Islam as well.

We are self-appointed custodians of Islam, and it is a result of the events, circumstances and more importantly, the ideologies that have led to the formation of this country.

However, this attitude is the very reason why have fought other countries’ wars at our expense and have gained nothing out of it.

If our people were not laboring under the delusions that Pakistan is a custodian of Islam, they would not be surprised to note that an anti-Pakistan individual like Gambhir can also be pro-Muslim.

Unfortunately, we are confused because of our misplaced beliefs and have no idea what to make of Gambhir’s tweet. As a result, some think he is playing to the galleries while others think he has turned a corner.

I pity them.

Did you even read his tweet? He is accepting blame for demonising Muslims, specifically Indian media which he has been a part of. I don't know why you are trying to claim some sort of moral equivalence, you have done the opposite by shifting the blame to Muslims, and now more specifically to Pakistan for some reason.
 
I should add here, that the general view that Muslims need to look inward is valid, any country or people who have not prospered should look inward, but is this the time and place for such pious platitudes? I would suggest probably not, although I know it will fall on deaf ears, and again, that is expected.
 
I should add here, that the general view that Muslims need to look inward is valid, any country or people who have not prospered should look inward, but is this the time and place for such pious platitudes? I would suggest probably not, although I know it will fall on deaf ears, and again, that is expected.

Definitely not the time. Timing is almost everything, so a lack of good timing tends to trigger a small disaster - case in point, Mamoon’s post.
 
My question is simple:

Why are we not prepared to discuss the undeniable reality that the vast majority of terrorists and the vast majority of terrorist organisations in the world identify themselves as Muslims and are prepared to defend their actions using religious scriptures?

Why are the majority of terrorists and terrorist organisations not identifying themselves as Christians, Hindus or Jews? Why Muslims?

As long as we are not prepared to tackle these uncomfortable questions, we cannot find a solution to Islamic terrorism and Islamophobia.


According to the majority of the Western People, the answer to this question of Mamon is simple: The teachings of Quran and Sharia are directly responsible for:

(1) Hugest numbers of terrorists among the Muslims.

(2) And stopping the Muslims masses to integrate into the Western society, but to make Ghettos and separate group which compels their young boys and girls only to marry among the Muslims, and to consider westerners as Kafirs.

(3) Their madness to impose the Sharia in the West, by making more children.


Are the Westerners right in their thinking? Or all of them Islamophobe, while Muslims are perfect and making no mistake while living in the west?
 
I have attended a couple of sermons with a few friends. What bothers me is the hate for the west while sitting in the west and enjoying the benefits of the west.

On 9/11, I went to the mosque for Maghrib prayers, and the Imam and Farooqi Sahib (who ran the mosque) were so happy and Farooqi Sahib told us: "They should have bombed American much earlier. They are late. But better late than never".

I was shocked to hear these words from Farooqi Sahib.

The more irritating thing was this that I see all other Muslims in the mosque were saying yes to the statement of Farooqi Sahib. Then they also rose the slogans of Allahu Akbar.

And more irritating thing is this that Imam Sahib and Farooqi Sahib, both were on the social help for ages.
 
[MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] has suffered from "attention seeking" issues for a long time. He just wants to be different whether it's cricket, religion, social issues, politics etc

I didnt bother reading his post and he may not be entirely wrong either but everything has time and place. We have discussed issues surrounding Muslims many times and almost everyone disagree with Zia type personalities or Al Qaeda type orgs. The issue being discussed is "Islamophobia" and that needs to be addressed as much as extremism in Islam, Wahabism etc. We are seeing rise of right wing politics all around the world with extremists like Trump, Geet Wilders, Pauline Hanson (in Aus), Modi, Netanyahu etc getting popular. It was only matter of time this sort of incident was going to happen and i wont be surprised if it happens in Australia either.
I remember few months ago an idiot who could hardly stand on his feet attacked few people with knife and he turned out to be Muslim, who Australia erupted in anger and almost everyone wanted Muslims to be kicked out from Australia; even Aussie Prime Minister's comments were hateful and it was extremely sad. First time in my life i actually felt threatened with extreme hatred from media, everyone calling that knife attack as serious terrorist attack.
Guess what, today same media called this attack in NZ which was many times more horrific as violence (and not a terrorist attack). THIS MUST CHANGE!

But Mr attention seeker missed the point entirely and as usually started his own little rant.


There are few important points that you neglected.

Could you tell me HOW many terrorist attacks have been made in France and whole of Europe by the Muslim extremists?
And then compared it to the numbers of the attacks done by the White people against the Muslims.

I mean Muslims are in small minority, but still their attacks number much much more than the attacks by the whole majority.

Why you neglect this reality?
 
Let me come to my original question:


Imran Khan and Erdogan and Muslims are saying that Media is responsible for the hatred against the Muslims.

But very important question: "Who filled Muslims with hatred against the European Culture and Values and thus the innocent Europeans have been killed many times more by the Muslims?

You blame the Media.

But the Western People blame Quran and the Sharia to be brainwashing the Muslim youth and filling them with hatred and turning them into the killing Machines.

According to them, it is the Quran and Sharia which filled Muslims with KAFROPHOBIA.
 
A very good recent example.

A Somalian man attacks a few people in Melbourne CBD with knife.
- Turns out that he was mentally unstable
- He believed he was being chased by "unseen people with spears"
- He had a troubled relationship with family and was kicked out many times
- He had not visited the mosque for decades

But it was a TERRORIST attack, whole country erupted into anger and rage and every Muslim was blamed and considered responsible for the attack. If you read comments on facebook pages of major channels, most comments were EXTREMELY hateful and it was normal for people to call all Muslims terrorists and most wanted Muslims to be kicked out of country.
Prime Minister of Australia said "Islamic extremism the greatest threat to Australia’s national security"

Few months later, few White Supremacists attack couple of mosques killing around 50 injuring dozens and for 90% media it is a shooting incident and culprits were shooters (barring couple of people here and there). Absolutely shocking double standards!


This is a very good example of One Sided Prejudice by people like Waseem, who are experts in turning a blind eye from the other side of the picture, and then blame people like Mamoon.

This is not the only incident where the Muslims attacked the innocent Kafir Westerners, but there are dozens of such attacks by the Muslims:

For example, November 2015 Paris attacks. The single deadliest terrorist attack in French history. Multiple shooting and grenade attacks occurred on a Friday night; among the locations targeted were a music venue, sports stadium and several bar and restaurant terraces.
140 people killed in these attacks.

Then there are many incidents of Vehicle ramming by Muslims into the innocent European citizens.

But people like Waseem very comfortably neglect the real facts.

And then Muslims openly doing these demonstrations:

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Just imagine if any Christian could make a banner telling NO Sharia in Pakistan?

What would you do with this Christian in Pakistan?

Why are you people unable to see your double standards before crying for Islamophobia?
 
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I completely agree. However, why is it so that most of the extremists/terrorists identify themselves as Muslims?

Is there something in the teachings, or is there a problem in the education? Why do we refuse to look into the strong correlation between terrorism and Islam?

Can you tell me how you know most terrorists / extremists identify as Muslim?

In fact, more terror attacks have been carried out by non Muslim related terror groups / individuals in the US post 9/11 than the reverse. Far right terrorists have also killed more people.

As of 2013, europol calculated that so called islamist terror attacks were not even the highest in number across the EU.

Curious to see what sources and facts you have dear mamoon.
 
This is a very good example of One Sided Prejudice by people like Waseem, who are experts in turning a blind eye from the other side of the picture, and then blame people like Mamoon.

This is not the only incident where the Muslims attacked the innocent Kafir Westerners, but there are dozens of such attacks by the Muslims:

For example, November 2015 Paris attacks. The single deadliest terrorist attack in French history. Multiple shooting and grenade attacks occurred on a Friday night; among the locations targeted were a music venue, sports stadium and several bar and restaurant terraces.
140 people killed in these attacks.

Then there are many incidents of Vehicle ramming by Muslims into the innocent European citizens.

But people like Waseem very comfortably neglect the real facts.

And then Muslims openly doing these demonstrations:

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Just imagine if any Christian could make a banner telling NO Sharia in Pakistan?

What would you do with this Christian in Pakistan?

Why are you people unable to see your double standards before crying for Islamophobia?

The poster you are quoting has not, at any stage, mentioned that these Muslim attacks did not take place. He is stating that the classification of attacks and the national and international out cries that take place are entirely different, and he is not wrong.
 
Let me come to my original question:


Imran Khan and Erdogan and Muslims are saying that Media is responsible for the hatred against the Muslims.

But very important question: "Who filled Muslims with hatred against the European Culture and Values and thus the innocent Europeans have been killed many times more by the Muslims?

You blame the Media.

But the Western People blame Quran and the Sharia to be brainwashing the Muslim youth and filling them with hatred and turning them into the killing Machines.

According to them, it is the Quran and Sharia which filled Muslims with KAFROPHOBIA.

So you believe in the media's claims?

If so, why?
 
Did you even read his tweet? He is accepting blame for demonising Muslims, specifically Indian media which he has been a part of. I don't know why you are trying to claim some sort of moral equivalence, you have done the opposite by shifting the blame to Muslims, and now more specifically to Pakistan for some reason.

What do you mean by the bolded part? He is not part of the Indian media. He is not a tv anchor and he does not work for a news agency. Just because he has made a few appearances as a sports celebrity does not make him a part of the mainstream media. If you are referring to social media, well it is a moot point anyway - if voicing your opinion on the Internet makes you part of the media, then all of us qualify as media people.

Again, what is so surprising or shocking if Gambhir does not agree with how the Indian media has demonised the Muslims at times? As a patriotic Indian, why can't he criticise a certain aspect of the Indian media?

I don't think mine or BaankeJi's comprehension is the problem here - the problem seems to be your refusal to appreciate the fact that Gambhir does not have to agree with the Indian media on every aspect to justify his patriotism for India and his disapproval of Pakistan's state policy.
 
To [MENTION=131701]Mamoon[/MENTION] I'd argue nobody doubts the need for discussion and soul searching (of which there's plenty of) about the root causes of Islamist extremism. However in the last two years Islamist extremism has been massively degraded with ISIS almost completely destroyed. Meanwhile white supremacists attacks have soared. In the US the FBI data shows 73% of domestic terrorism between 9/11 and 2016 are from white supremacists.

You ask why. It's not from legitimate concern about Islamist extremism, but the growth of a toxic internet subculture that sees white, angry, misanthropic, racist young men on sites like Reddit, 4Chan, Brietbart and YouTube where they reinforce each others' prejudices. With an increasingly assertive and confident ethnic minority community in the West (London has its first Muslim mayor, the US elected its first black female Muslim to Congress), these folks think white males are "oppressed" and under siege, and facing a "white genocide". This "white rage" and sense of loss of privilege has been egged on and exploited by opportunitistic far-right politicians like Trump, Le Pen, Salvini and others.

THAT is the root cause. The authorities need to crackdown on online hate sites and ensure the social media companies not only step up moderating their content but change their algorithms to prevent users from seeing extremist material as suggested content.

You are mistaken.

The real cause is this:

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Due to this madness, whole of Muslim community is not integrating in the Western society, and they are in state of war with the western values.
 
Let me come to my original question:


Imran Khan and Erdogan and Muslims are saying that Media is responsible for the hatred against the Muslims.

But very important question: "Who filled Muslims with hatred against the European Culture and Values and thus the innocent Europeans have been killed many times more by the Muslims?
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Here you are taking the actions of few extremist individuals and puting the blame on whole Muslim community and holding them responsible. Gross generalization and grand ignorance displayed by you.

You need to realize that the white supermacist terrorist hates everyone non-white in his "European land". His prime target happened to be Muslims but any non-white and all those white who encourage mingling with non-whites are a fair target. Hence don't let your dislike of Muslims cloud your judgments.

If you really want to know why muslim extremist are killing people all around the world why don't you read their manifesto just like you read the white-spermacist's and the whole media is spreading it?

It is starting to seems like in case of the white-spermacist terrorist it is fair game to justify and find reasons for his heinous acts and spread his propaganda. Well since you are so eager to do so then I am ready to go down that road of paying attention to what terrorists have to say and look for cause and effect:

The Muslim extremists killers have repeatedly over and over said that their hatred and war on the west is due to their occupation of Muslim land like Palestine and their countless support to Israel. The occupation of Muslim ressources and the support of tyrant Muslim regimes like the ones in Saudi Arabia and Egypt are a drone in their eyes. They believe they aren't able to live their lives in their own countries in a sovereign manner because the western leaders are supporting and have helped bring to power the oppressive regimes in the Muslim world who in turn are subservient to the western nations and interests.

They don't recognize the authorities of such regimes and find it necessary to topple them which can only be done according to them by first cutting the hands of those who are keeping them in power. They always say their fight will carry on as long as the western forces occupy Muslim lands directly or indirectly and keep meddling with their internal affairs. These are the sentiments shared by Bin Laden, 9/11 hijackers and many more after them.

You need to bring me a manifesto by a Muslim terrorist killer which read something like "The only reason we are killing non-Muslims because we hate their culture, way of living and values. We will keep on killing them until the convert to Islam."

If the hatred for non-Muslim values and culture is the primary motivational force behind Muslim extremists killings then how come hardly any terror attacks are seen in non-Muslim countries like Brazil, Romania, Poland and Czech-Republic? Especially since the security in countries like USA, UK and France has increased drastically over the years. Therefore unsuspecting countries like Slovenia, Kroatia and Lithuania should represent pretty easy targets to hit for those hate filled extremists.

So there you have it the reason for violent Muslim extremism is the perception of American and other foreign nations meddling in internal affairs of Muslim lands and even direct occupation of Muslim lands.

You are also being dishonest or ignorant when you make it into a European vs Muslim issue. It is actually a non-Muslim vs Muslim issue. There are many European Muslims who went on to join extremists Muslim groups and carried out terror attack. Just like there are thousands of non-Europeans who have been the victim of violent Muslim extremism. When a extremist decides to blow up in a metro station his bomb isnt able to differentiate between who is a Muslim and who is a European. When a extremist Muslims decides to run over people with a truck he isnt able to filter out muslims and Europeans from the crowd.

The same Muslim extremist killers who kill people in Europe are and have been killing the local population in Muslim lands. Bother to explain why this is so when their motivation for killing is the hatred for Europeans. You also seem to find it improtant to mention that muslims extremists have killed far more Europeans than European extremists have killed Muslims. Well if such figures are so relevant to you then do notice that Muslim extremist killers have killed far more non-European Muslims living in Muslim countries than they have killed Europeans. Any analysis on the cause behind such figures? Or are such things minor details to you?

You see I always thought terrorism has no justification and we should not pay attention to their propaganda nor should we pay heed to their words. However ever since the attack in New Zealand it feels like as if now suddenly it is okay to justify terrorism. Instead of condemning all sorts of terrorism and working towards building a more peaceful, open minded and knowledgeable society you end up with a bigger headache once you start to justify one act of terrorism in relation to another.
 
You are mistaken.

The real cause is this:

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Due to this madness, whole of Muslim community is not integrating in the Western society, and they are in state of war with the western values.

These posters represent perhaps a controversial opinion but if you honestly look at them they don't condone violence against innocent people nor do they represent the terrorists behind 9/11.

The same European values which you are so concerned about allow these controversial opinions and posters to be expressed. That's what make those European values special. Now if you have an issue with such opinions being expressed you need to address it through proper political channels in a democratic way.

The last time I checked the terrorist of al-Qaida and ISIS were holding guns and not posters and demonstrating on the streets of Europe. If you honestly want to get to the bottom of the driving force behind Muslim terrorists you need to directly read their manifesto and not be a Sherlock Holmes and trying making connection and speculations on your own while making a fool of yourself.
 
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Can you tell me how you know most terrorists / extremists identify as Muslim?

In fact, more terror attacks have been carried out by non Muslim related terror groups / individuals in the US post 9/11 than the reverse. Far right terrorists have also killed more people.

As of 2013, europol calculated that so called islamist terror attacks were not even the highest in number across the EU.

Curious to see what sources and facts you have dear mamoon.

I am talking about organised terror groups that fight in the name of Islam and use Islamic teachings to justify their acts. Terrorism by white supremacists or an individual shooting people is rarely done in the name of religion or backed by religious scriptures (as perceived by the terrorists).

Let's look at the major organised terrorist/militant groups in the world:

ISIS, Al-Qaida, Afghan Taliban, TTP, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, Shabaab etc. etc., and there are hundreds of other smaller militant groups and the vast majority of them use their version of Islam as their shield. Now we can sit and debate whether they are terrorists are not, but these groups are officially declared as terrorists by various countries.

Ultimately, the only thing that matters is the perception. When the pretty much all major terrorist groups are affiliated with Islam, it is inevitable that Islamophobia will spread.

What are the Christian, Jewish and Hindu equivalents of ISIS, Al-Qaida, Taliban, Shabaab, Hezbollah, Boko Haram etc. etc., who use scriptures from their respective religions to justify their actions?

We need to understand that lone wolf terrorism does not instil as much fear and terror as organised terrorism in the name of religion does. An individual who kills 50 people but is not part of a group that uses religion as its shield, is going to be perceived as a lesser threat than a terrorist group killing 10 people as a religious duty.

As long as organised terrorism maintains its strong correlation with Islam, we cannot hope for Islamophobia to end and for people to not view Islam with skepticism.
 
Just to add to what you said: it (the violence) goes way back. Probably as far as humanity's origin.

Both the Australian guy and the Norwegian guy possess the same mentality as the Al Qaeda terrorists.

If you read this Australian guy's manifesto you will realize that he's got a very wrong idea about the good ol' days. They've this glorious image of Europe of middle ages.

Middle ages were dark. And repugnant times.

A stupid example, Europeans didn't believe in taking many baths. In Spain, there was this queen in 14th/15th century who ever took 4 baths in her life :facepalm: These lost and sick minds think that old times were like Orlando Bloom's movie :facepalm:

Muslims (and especially Pakistanis) have suffered a lot of terrorism. And we are still suffering it.

Yet some enlightened ones are blaming the victims who have lost their children to this madness :facepalm: hiding behind pathetic and baseless arguments, of course.

I do not support terrorism or violence in any shape or form from anyone. Terrorists are mentally ill people who can belong to any religion.

None is blaming the victims of the NZ attack. The recent terrorist activities of the extremists Muslims have made peaceful Muslims the target of these backlashes. This is the point which for some reason none is willing to accept.
 
Here you are taking the actions of few extremist individuals and puting the blame on whole Muslim community and holding them responsible. Gross generalization and grand ignorance displayed by you.

Yes, it is common perception among the Westerners that whole Muslim community undermine their culture and values. They want to come in millions to the West and want to take advantage of their system and loot i, but they do not want to integrate.

And as Imran Khan spoke out his mind that Media is responsible for this Islamophobia, then Westerners today are also speaking out of their minds that it is Kafirophobia, and culprit for this Kafirophobia is Quran and Sharia which don't let the Muslims in Europe to integrate into the society and turning millions of them into the terrorists.


You need to realize that the white supermacist terrorist hates everyone non-white in his "European land". His prime target happened to be Muslims but any non-white and all those white who encourage mingling with non-whites are a fair target. Hence don't let your dislike of Muslims cloud your judgments.

Heavy Majority of the Westerners hate these White supremacists, and criticize them, and made laws against their white supremacy Syndrom.

But what about the Muslims? Do they criticize their sacred texts for the teachings about Kafirophobia and not to integrate in their society, but only to move in their countries in order to loot them?


The Muslim extremists killers have repeatedly over and over said that their hatred and war on the west is due to their occupation of Muslim land like Palestine and their countless support to Israel.

False, dishonesty and deception by Muslim apologists.

If it was against the occupation of Muslim lands, then not millions of Muslims were giving applications to let them allow to live in that same tyrant West.

And if it was against the occupation only, then we would have never seen these things happening on the roads of the Western Countries.

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You need to bring me a manifesto by a Muslim terrorist killer which read something like "The only reason we are killing non-Muslims because we hate their culture, way of living and values. We will keep on killing them until the convert to Islam."

See the banners above.

If the hatred for non-Muslim values and culture is the primary motivational force behind Muslim extremists killings then how come hardly any terror attacks are seen in non-Muslim countries like Brazil, Romania, Poland and Czech-Republic? Especially since the security in countries like USA, UK and France has increased drastically over the years. Therefore unsuspecting countries like Slovenia, Kroatia and Lithuania should represent pretty easy targets to hit for those hate filled extremists.

While Muslims are almost negligible in numbers in countries like Brazil and Poland etc as compared to UK, Germany and France.
Secondly, these countries are not know for their Human Rights as UK, Germany and France.
If Muslim minority try to make such attacks in these countries, then response from the Majority against the Muslim community will be tens of times more as compared to UK, Germany and France.

Muslims also know it and thus fear the response.

What to talk about Brazil and Poland, just look at India. There are about 180 million Muslims in India, but living like coward jackals.

Yes, Indian Muslims are living like coward Jackals, due to the fear of the extreme Hindutva forces in India.

Due to the fear of these Hindu fanatics, we see that Deoband School and all Muslim politicians are raising the slogans like "Long Live Secularism" and even "Pakistan Murdabad".

While in Pakistan, these same Deobandis are calling for "Islamic Sharia" and want to slaughter the throats of all those Secularists who suggest to have modern human Secular laws instead of thousands of years old Sharia laws.


The same Muslim extremist killers who kill people in Europe are and have been killing the local population in Muslim lands. Bother to explain why this is so when their motivation for killing is the hatred for Europeans.

Reason why Muslim is killing a Muslim also lies in Quran/Sharia, while all those who don't accept the thousands of years old Sharia laws, all of them have become Kafirs and should be killed.

That is why Taliban is declaring Pakistani Constitution to be a Kafir constitution.

Then comes the Islamic teachings that only one sect could go to the Jannah, and thus Shias and Qadiyanis and Brailvies being killed by the pious and 100% Sharia oriented Muslims, just like they kill the western Kafirs.



You see I always thought terrorism has no justification and we should not pay attention to their propaganda nor should we pay heed to their words. However ever since the attack in New Zealand it feels like as if now suddenly it is okay to justify terrorism. Instead of condemning all sorts of terrorism and working towards building a more peaceful, open minded and knowledgeable society you end up with a bigger headache once you start to justify one act of terrorism in relation to another.

False accusation.
No one justified the white supremacy or the terrorist attacks.
Only showed Muslims the real facts and their double standards where they think their leaders like Imran khan and Erdogan are allowed to point out Media for being culprit for the Islamophobia, but they don't allow the others to point out the Kafirophobia and it's culprit, the Quran and Shariah.
 
According to the majority of the Western People, the answer to this question of Mamon is simple: The teachings of Quran and Sharia are directly responsible for:

(1) Hugest numbers of terrorists among the Muslims.

(2) And stopping the Muslims masses to integrate into the Western society, but to make Ghettos and separate group which compels their young boys and girls only to marry among the Muslims, and to consider westerners as Kafirs.

(3) Their madness to impose the Sharia in the West, by making more children.


Are the Westerners right in their thinking? Or all of them Islamophobe, while Muslims are perfect and making no mistake while living in the west?

When the vast majority of organised terror groups justify their actions using Islam and consider their terrorism as their duty as Muslims, you cannot blame the non-Muslims for developing a fear of the religion of Islam. The onus then falls on the regular Muslims (the majority) to promote their version of Islam to an extent where it can overpower the extremism, and I don't think we have done remotely enough on that front.

As I stated previously, as a group, Muslims have achieved nothing of note for over a century and more. Most Muslim countries are struggling economically, and the ones who are not like KSA and other Arab countries have also failed to conjure a positive image because of their conservatism.

Furthermore, we have made no contributions to the world of science either. We have not made any technological breakthroughs and have failed in our contribution to make the world a better place. Most Muslim countries also spend very little resources on R&D. We are also lacking modern industries and people who are CEOs of major companies.

The major reason for our incompetence is what I like to call worldly laziness. Our emphasis on life after death is so immense that we are psychologically driven to not push ourselves to be high achievers, simply because we believe that the only thing that will matter after we die is our deeds and whether we proved to be good Muslims or not.

This does not mean that Muslims do not have high achieving individuals. However, as a group, we have failed spectacularly because we do not consider the world important enough.

If Muslim countries develop economically, develop modern industries, invest in R&D and make technological breakthroughs, it will go a long way in changing the image of Islam and Muslims, and your average white man will not think of terrorism when he hears the word Islam.
 
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These posters represent perhaps a controversial opinion but if you honestly look at them they don't condone violence against innocent people nor do they represent the terrorists behind 9/11.

The same European values which you are so concerned about allow these controversial opinions and posters to be expressed. That's what make those European values special. Now if you have an issue with such opinions being expressed you need to address it through proper political channels in a democratic way.

This is known as "Misusing the System" and the hypocrisy by the Muslims (the Normal moderate Muslims).

Western System allows the Muslims full liberty to do Tableegh and even to convert the people.

But when it comes to Islam, then Islam does not allow the non-Muslims to preach and kill all those who leave Islam.

And the hypocrisy of the Muslims (the moderate ones) is this that they happily misuse the Western System, but never criticizes Islam for being a culprit and killer of basic human rights and having the double standards.

This hypocrisy of Muslims is not going to be tolerated longer by the Westerners naturally. Sooner or later there will be a response, and responsible for this are the Muslims themselves who want to abuse the system and want to continue with their double standards.

Same is the the issue with this banner where Muslims so shamelessly want to kill and abuse the same system which gave them asylum in their country, looked for them, supported them.

And whole of Muslim community don't want to integrate in the Western society while Kafirophobia stops them to integrate with them.

And in the next step, we are watching these things.
 
I do not support terrorism or violence in any shape or form from anyone. Terrorists are mentally ill people who can belong to any religion.

None is blaming the victims of the NZ attack. The recent terrorist activities of the extremists Muslims have made peaceful Muslims the target of these backlashes. This is the point which for some reason none is willing to accept.
Same here bro. I don't support violence of any kind either.

Maybe you are right. I don't have enough time/resources/knowledge to assuredly and honestly deny what you are saying.

But, I'd like your opinion regarding something.

1. Do you believe that the fact that USA's been bombing the bejesus outta Afghanistan and killing civilians makes more terrorists? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/asia/airstrikes-nangarhar-afghanistan.html as recent as a weeks ago they killed a bunch of kids and the lone doctor of a small village :facepalm:

2. So God-forbid, someone who survived the above air strike comes to USA in coming years, writes a ** manifesto, and enters in 2 churches and kills innocent peoples can be in any way justified?

Reflect on it.

To conclude, there has always been violence in humanity. To blame Islam for terrorism is being lazy and it merely scratches surface of things. There are billions of peace loving Muslims around the world who are very angry at these few thousand self acclaimed 'Muslim terrorists'.

What some posters here are implying is an insult to a billion souls. At least, I consider it that way.

Islam clearly forbids violence and terrorism. If someone who happens to be a Muslim is a terrorist doesn't mean that the religion advocates terrorism. Easy to understand if your niyyat is pure.
 
Same here bro. I don't support violence of any kind either.

Maybe you are right. I don't have enough time/resources/knowledge to assuredly and honestly deny what you are saying.

But, I'd like your opinion regarding something.

1. Do you believe that the fact that USA's been bombing the bejesus outta Afghanistan and killing civilians makes more terrorists? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/asia/airstrikes-nangarhar-afghanistan.html as recent as a weeks ago they killed a bunch of kids and the lone doctor of a small village :facepalm:

2. So God-forbid, someone who survived the above air strike comes to USA in coming years, writes a ** manifesto, and enters in 2 churches and kills innocent peoples can be in any way justified?

Reflect on it.

To conclude, there has always been violence in humanity. To blame Islam for terrorism is being lazy and it merely scratches surface of things. There are billions of peace loving Muslims around the world who are very angry at these few thousand self acclaimed 'Muslim terrorists'.

What some posters here are implying is an insult to a billion souls. At least, I consider it that way.

Islam clearly forbids violence and terrorism. If someone who happens to be a Muslim is a terrorist doesn't mean that the religion advocates terrorism. Easy to understand if your niyyat is pure.

1. I do not support US invasion of Afghanistan and that is a very popular opinion in America as well. Most of us Americans do not want our taxes to be spent on wars.

2. No, their act cannot be justified because they are targeting innocent people. However, it does not change the fact that it is a backlash caused by the Afghanistan invasion.

I know majority of the Muslims are peaceful but that is true for people from other religions too. None says that all Muslims are terrorists. Muslims in the western world have the same economic opportunities like the rest. They have the same freedom and legal rights and in these countries. This would not have been true if all Muslims were considered extremists.

Islam forbids violence and terrorism is open to different interpretations. Extremists groups use verses from the Koran to justify their acts. Just because their interpretation is different does not make them non-Muslim. They carry out these acts in the name of Islam so why should not outsiders blame Islam and Muslims for leaving a window for this misinterpretation.

Islam need to evolve like Christianity. It should not be termed a blasphemy to come up with a religious system that works in this century and eliminates any opportunity of religious abuse.
 
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People missing the big picture here.

Narodnaya Volia was the first modern form of the “t-word”.

These groups are using religion as a means to accomplish political and economic ends.

Religion is a great unifier of men and it plays into these people’s hands.

There’s plenty of examples of these groups that are not Muslim, historical and modern. But it does not attract the same attention, media coverage, and shock value.

Stop being puppetized by the media and think for yourselves.
 
Same here bro. I don't support violence of any kind either.

Maybe you are right. I don't have enough time/resources/knowledge to assuredly and honestly deny what you are saying.

But, I'd like your opinion regarding something.

1. Do you believe that the fact that USA's been bombing the bejesus outta Afghanistan and killing civilians makes more terrorists? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/asia/airstrikes-nangarhar-afghanistan.html as recent as a weeks ago they killed a bunch of kids and the lone doctor of a small village :facepalm:

2. So God-forbid, someone who survived the above air strike comes to USA in coming years, writes a ** manifesto, and enters in 2 churches and kills innocent peoples can be in any way justified?

Reflect on it.

To conclude, there has always been violence in humanity. To blame Islam for terrorism is being lazy and it merely scratches surface of things. There are billions of peace loving Muslims around the world who are very angry at these few thousand self acclaimed 'Muslim terrorists'.

What some posters here are implying is an insult to a billion souls. At least, I consider it that way.

Islam clearly forbids violence and terrorism. If someone who happens to be a Muslim is a terrorist doesn't mean that the religion advocates terrorism. Easy to understand if your niyyat is pure.


There are millions of Afghanis living in the West, and almost none of the terrorist attacks have been done by the Afghanis, but they have been done by the Saudis or other Arabs or Islamists. This should be enough for you to stop using the excuse of Afghanistan.


You say billions of Muslims are peace loving?

But why these billions of peace loving Muslims are then supporting the Shariah laws in their countries when these Shariah laws are usurping the basic human rights of Preaching and changing the religion.

And why these so called billion of peace loving Muslims are supporting the blasphemy laws in their countries?

Why these billion of so called peace loving Muslims are not ready to give rights to others to even raise a voice for having modern secular laws in Islamic countries instead of centuries old Sharia laws?

And lastly, how much these so called peace loving Muslims integrate in the Western Societies? They marry the western girls, but never let their girls marry the Westerners.

Could you guarantee us that these billions of so called peace loving Muslims have no Kafirophobia as has been taught by the religious books?
 
Yes, it is common perception among the Westerners that whole Muslim community undermine their culture and values. They want to come in millions to the West and want to take advantage of their system and loot i, but they do not want to integrate.

I don’t think that’s the existing common perception nor do I believe that such perception is based on facts and ground reality. Regardless of the biased perception you mentioned that doesn’t justify what you did: Putting all the Muslims in the same basket as the Muslim terrorists and holding them equally responsible for the actions of few fanatic individuals. Upon me pointing out your unjust and ignorant point of view you further go on to justify it. Which shows me you are a deceitful and dishonest person. Anyone with a sense of morality and common sense would understand why it is wrong to condemn and blame each and every individual of a community for the actions of a handful of fanatics.

And as Imran Khan spoke out his mind that Media is responsible for this Islamophobia, then Westerners today are also speaking out of their minds that it is Kafirophobia, and culprit for this Kafirophobia is Quran and Sharia which don't let the Muslims in Europe to integrate into the society and turning millions of them into the terrorists.

I agree to some extent with Imran Khan’s sentiments that the global media played a negative role in spreading false and one-sided anti-Muslim narrative. I know this because I am exposed to this media every day. The result of this heavily biased narrative is the increasing mistrust in the population, a wide spread of misinformation and the breeding ground for extremism. The increase in misinformation and one-sided narrative leads to the kind of ignorant and prejudiced opinion which you expressed in the beginning of your post disguised as “common perception amongst the Westerners”.

At the same time I believe there are multiple facets to this problem at hands and the media’s negative role is one big part of it. Other facets are indeed the increased number of terrorist attacks in recent times and a very tiny minority of Muslims in the west who are finding it hard to integrate. However, the lack of integration can be found in varying degrees amongst immigrants of many different backgrounds, irrespective of their religious inclination. Hence the reason behind it is much more complex and of socio-economic nature than the simplistic view you are trying to sell. I also believe that if the media were to play a more unbiased and constructive role than the other two facets are easier to handle. The media’s role is by far the most destructive.

The controversial verses in Quran are “turning millions of them into terrorists”? This is nothing but vast distortion of the reality and over the top exaggeration. According to the USA the IS terrorists number around 40000, the afghan Taliban (which aren’t terrorist according to USA) number around 100’000 then let’s add another 200’000 for al-Qaida and various kind of other terror organization and we end up at around 300’000- 400’000 terrorists and their sympathizers in the whole world. I was being vastly generous with the numbers here, mind you.

Now let’s not forget you mentioned those figures in the context of Muslims living in the west. So you claim millions of Muslims in Europe are turning into terrorists when the most generous calculation gives me a figure of 400’000 terrorists motivated by Islamist goals across the globe. The number of terrorist from Europe who went to join IS is in thousands and I will be generous and say it’s 10’000. Anyhow the bottom line is you are making things as you feel like and your claims don’t hold up under proper scrutiny. Your words can't be trusted.


Heavy Majority of the Westerners hate these White supremacists, and criticize them, and made laws against their white supremacy Syndrom.

I agree! Majority of them are also far more educated and had the luxury of proper schooling than the average Muslim living in the orient.

But what about the Muslims? Do they criticize their sacred texts for the teachings about Kafirophobia and not to integrate in their society, but only to move in their countries in order to loot them?

You start with a good question but than derail into gibberish and ignorant over the top misrepresentation of the situation. I am just going to address your legitimate question and ignore your rubbish at the end.

Yes, unfortunately a Muslim would never directly criticize or even think of reforming Quran and editing out controversial verses, since that would break the very premise of their religious claim that their holy book is free from any distortion or man made changes. The whole pretext is that the book is from God and each word remains the same as it was revealed. If a Mullah were to scrutinize it and make amendments in it he may very well accept that his religion is just like any other and man-made and may as well renounce it.

Hence the best they can do is put those controversial verses in their proper historical context and make a case for why they aren’t relevant for our times. And indeed, many Muslim scholars have done so. They have rejected, disowned and disapproved of the narrative spread by terrorists of al-Qaeda and IS. They have repeatedly issued fatwas and statements on how the terrorist’s use of the text is completely wrong and a misuse. Not just that Muslims too hate the terrorists, criticize and disassociate themselves from them.

When IS declared its fake Khilafah they told the whole Muslim world that migration to this fake Khilafah is a religious obligation now and refusal to do so would make one an apostate. As we all know except for a few fanatics with psychological issues the rest of over 1 billion Muslim didn’t give too hoot about it and outright rejected their false representation of Islam. That’s a major proof of general Muslims rejecting the terrorist’s narrative. However here is where the negative role of the media gets exposed. They make little to no effort to highlight these facts and bring these things in the attention of badly informed public. The media would do an hour long documentary of one or two teenager with mental issues which ran to Syria but would rarely bring to mainstream the views of those millions of Muslims who refused IS and its fake Khilafah.

False, dishonesty and deception by Muslim apologists.

No actually it’s a lack of reading skills on your side.

The part you quoted isn’t my opinion nor am I quoting the opinion of a Muslim apologist. Actually, I am using you standard: You took the white-supermacist terrorist’s narrative and tried justifying it and explaining it’s relevance. Likewise I too took the Muslim terrorist’s manifesto and brought it to your intention. Perhaps the terrorist’s manifesto is dishonest but what isn’t false and dishonest, is my summary of it.

If it was against the occupation of Muslim lands, then not millions of Muslims were giving applications to let them allow to live in that same tyrant West.

Grammatically a bit difficult to decipher.

However, I feel like you are once again shamelessly and cunningly equating Muslims with terrorists misusing Islam. The action of one has nothing to do with the action of the other. Understand this basic concept! Muslims have been migrating into west as early as 60s. The Islamist terrorists at large officially announced themselves in the 90s. I don’t see what the terrorist’s manifesto and their motivational reason have anything to do with the average Muslim migrating to west.

And if it was against the occupation only, then we would have never seen these things happening on the roads of the Western Countries.

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What’s exactly is your point here? Are these al-Qaeda or IS terrorist and what are they doing holding protest banners instead of guns? What’s the correlation between Islamist terrorist’s manifesto and these bunch of lunatics with a controversial banner?

See the banners above.

Read my challenge again. Then explain to me how those banners have anything to do with Islamist terrorists justifying their terror attacks, by citing their hatred for European culture, instead of their perceived unjust bombardment of muslim lands.


While Muslims are almost negligible in numbers in countries like Brazil and Poland etc as compared to UK, Germany and France.
Secondly, these countries are not know for their Human Rights as UK, Germany and France.
If Muslim minority try to make such attacks in these countries, then response from the Majority against the Muslim community will be tens of times more as compared to UK, Germany and France.

Muslims also know it and thus fear the response.

Few things to note:

- You once again equate common Muslims with Islamist terrorists. In other words it seems like for you this holds: a Muslim = terrorist.

- You seem to live in a distorted paranoid reality where there is some kind of a Muslim conspiracy where Muslims, who all incline towards terrorism in your view, intentionally pick those country as targets where they fear less response from the population. So let me get this straight the terrorist who blows himself up in a metro situation and hence gets killed, still somehow fears the response of the population? He is already dead! Oh and his concern for the local Muslim community can’t be all too high either, since when he blows himself up in a jam-packed train Muslims and non-Muslims alike are killed.

- You somehow think that people in eastern Europe are barbaric and still live in medieval times, who would not hesitate to punish and lynch a whole community for the actions of some. If they have no regard for human rights than what exactly differentiat their culture and values from the culture and values of a terrorist?

Honestly in your attempt to deny a clear pattern between the countries the terrorists chose to target and the countries free from any terrorist activity, you have shown your true nature of an ignorant, deceitful and shameless person.

Ok let me for one moment accept your worldview and try to argue in it. So the Muslims choose their target countries with a strategy in mind. However, now the recent events have shown that Muslims aren’t save in New Zealand, even though so far they haven’t strategically done any terror attacks in New Zealand ( as you mentioned because they think Kiwis don’t respect human rights as much as the likes in UK and France).

Ok so what can we expect the new strategy of Muslims to be? Since apparently even if they attack in countries like UK and France they should regardless still fear attacks in other countries where they are in less numbers. So can we expect Muslims to drastically decrease their terror attacks in lights of these new findings? Or can we expect them to attack all countries since they wont remain their unharmed anyway? What's your expert opinion on these daramatic turn of events?


What to talk about Brazil and Poland, just look at India. There are about 180 million Muslims in India, but living like coward jackals.

Yes, Indian Muslims are living like coward Jackals, due to the fear of the extreme Hindutva forces in India.

Oh great! another insight in your distorted, ignorant and bigoted world view.

So let me get this straight if Muslims in some part of the world aren’t acting out there terroristic inclination and are living peacefully it must be because they are cowards and has nothing to do with them being perhaps genuinely of peaceful nature. It is also good to see you indirectly justifying Hindu extremism, apparently it’s there to keep those evil terroristic inclinations of Muslims in check and deserves no condemnation nor is it a problem, got it!

How can one even feel motivated enough to argue with you. When no matter the situation, no matter the odds you are always going to spin it in a way to support your narrative, no matter how ridicuolous and lunatic it might be.

Due to the fear of these Hindu fanatics, we see that Deoband School and all Muslim politicians are raising the slogans like "Long Live Secularism" and even "Pakistan Murdabad".

While in Pakistan, these same Deobandis are calling for "Islamic Sharia" and want to slaughter the throats of all those Secularists who suggest to have modern human Secular laws instead of thousands of years old Sharia laws.

I know you must have felt pretty smart by using big words like “Deobandis”. However let’s test your ability to connect the dots and look at things sincerely.

Pakistan was created in 1947, from there until 2000s we saw very little of these “Deobandi terrorists” activities in Pakistan, why? In fact Deobandi scholars gave their seal of approval on Pakistani constitution. Where were these Deobandis and their throat slaughtering tendencies for the good part of Pakistani history?

The established fact is that in the 1980s under the permission of USA and it’s western allies, to combat Soviet Union, the ISI and CIA heavily recruited students from Deobandi backgrounds for American approved “Jihad” in Afghanistan. For their proxy war and self-interest they radicalized and misused this group the most. Darul-uloom Haqqani run by Maulana Sami-ul-Haq being the most famous one.

Today there are thousands of mainstream Deobandi affiliated madrassahs in Pakistan and I want you to give me evidence of them preaching what you accuse them off. You have a very bad habit of distorting facts and exaggerating. The reality is that yes there are quite a few problematic militant organizations in Pakistan whose vast majority of members follow Deobandi school of thought, however despite that they have been rejected by the mainstream Deobandi scholars in Pakistan!

Be it, Mufti Taqi Usmani, one of the most respected Deobandi scholar in Pakistan or Maulan Ilyas Ghumman and many more, all of them have dissociated themselves from such organization. If you are true in your claim I want you to give me a speech or writing by Taqi Usmani telling his students to “slaughter the throats of Secularist”.

Reason why Muslim is killing a Muslim also lies in Quran/Sharia, while all those who don't accept the thousands of years old Sharia laws, all of them have become Kafirs and should be killed.

That is why Taliban is declaring Pakistani Constitution to be a Kafir constitution.

Then comes the Islamic teachings that only one sect could go to the Jannah, and thus Shias and Qadiyanis and Brailvies being killed by the pious and 100% Sharia oriented Muslims, just like they kill the western Kafirs.

Nice of you to run with and accept the terrorist's narrative as the truth without having any words for the vicitims.

Once again this is the terrorist’s narrative and mainstream Muslim scholars have rejected them just like the majority of local Muslim population. Otherwise the whole of Pakistan would be in civil war because Barelvis, Shias and Deobandis, despite their disagreements on certain issues, still live in large numbers next to eachother.

It’s not Muslim killing a Muslim as you wrongfully misrepresented the situation but the terrorist killing the Muslims, the very same terrorist which are also killing in Europe. Meaning the Muslims and non-Muslim all are sitting in the same boat and targeted by the same terrorists.

However you don’t want to accept that nor does the media want to highlight it because that won’t suit the one-sided narrative! I mean I already know you are such a decietful person that for you terrorists killing Muslim is the same as Muslim killing Muslims. Since Muslim = terrorist so you are quite convinently useing those words interchangeably.


False accusation.
No one justified the white supremacy or the terrorist attacks.
Only showed Muslims the real facts and their double standards where they think their leaders like Imran khan and Erdogan are allowed to point out Media for being culprit for the Islamophobia, but they don't allow the others to point out the Kafirophobia and it's culprit, the Quran and Shariah.

"Only showed Muslims the real facts" yeah great cope out. Just like how the Islamic terrorists are showing the rest of the world "the real facts" and hence justifying their attacks.

99.99% of the Muslims reading the same Quran reject and disapprove of the terrorist actions. And you still think that the text is the main cause of the rise in terrorism and nothing else.

One final note: Through out your post you have been repeadly painting the scenario of a decisve, pre-planned, Muslim conspiracy where "millions of muslim are eager to come to west to loot it". Let's look at the recent surge of muslim refugees towards Turkey and european countries.

Do you think this surge of millions of muslim towards west is becuase:

a) Muslim text tells them to runs in millions towards west to loot it.

b) the direct consequence of the ongoing war in syria leaving millions displaced and unshelterd.

Why didn't these milions of Syrians think to "run towards west and loot it" earlier?

a) They where busy reading their religous text and hadn't gotten to the part where it tells them to go to west and loot it.

b) there was no devastating war in syria yet.
 
There are millions of Afghanis living in the West, and almost none of the terrorist attacks have been done by the Afghanis, but they have been done by the Saudis or other Arabs or Islamists. This should be enough for you to stop using the excuse of Afghanistan.
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It makes sense why many terrorists from Afghanistan stick to stay there, since they can directly fight American forces there. While those Afghans who escaped to west are most likely going to be those who want nothing to do with war.

That’s not even important to me. The most important part for me is that by your own admission millions of Afghans and hence millions of Muslims, since most Afghans are Muslims, are living peacefully in Europe without going on a killing spree. So are these Afghans reading a very different religious text than the other Muslims? Why aren't they suffering from your invented "Kafirophobia"? Or is it that the religious text isn’t the deciding factor and since they are the one effected most by Islamist terrorism, which the American are now negotiating with, and hence have little support for them.
 
I don’t think that’s the existing common perception nor do I believe that such perception is based on facts and ground reality.

Off course this is the common perception. Actually it's a reality. While Muslims have made their eyes closed and neither ready to accept their faults nor want to reform them.


Regardless of the biased perception you mentioned that doesn’t justify what you did: Putting all the Muslims in the same basket as the Muslim terrorists and holding them equally responsible for the actions of few fanatic individuals.

False accusation.

No one blamed that all Muslims are the terrorists. You are only twisting the case of the other party and putting words in their mouth.

Muslim community as a whole (Heavy Majority) has been blamed for not Integrating in the Western societies, and that is due to that Kafirophobia syndrome.

Just look around, how many Muslims allow their daughters to forget about the centuries old Sharia laws, and to allow them to marry the Western men?


Anyone with a sense of morality and common sense would understand why it is wrong to condemn and blame each and every individual of a community for the actions of a handful of fanatics.

You have a personal problem of not understanding the point of view of the other party, and starting putting up words in their mouth at your own.

No one is condemning each and every Muslim for the Terrorist actions and killings of the fanatics.

Fanatic Muslims are other problem.

While the so called Moderate Normal Muslims are another problem, and they are not mixed, and they are not blamed for terrorist killing, but they are blame of not integrating in the society due to their Kafirophobia syndrome.


I agree to some extent with Imran Khan’s sentiments that the global media played a negative role in spreading false and one-sided anti-Muslim narrative. I know this because I am exposed to this media every day. The result of this heavily biased narrative is the increasing mistrust in the population, a wide spread of misinformation and the breeding ground for extremism. The increase in misinformation and one-sided narrative leads to the kind of ignorant and prejudiced opinion which you expressed in the beginning of your post disguised as “common perception amongst the Westerners”.

Rubbish.

It is people like Imran Khan and Erdogan who become the champions of moderate Muslims, but still unable to address the faults in the behaviour of the Muslim community, but still keep on only to point out fingers towards the others, and blaming them of Islamophobia, but never ever took the name of Kafirophobia, and never ever tried to reform this problem. And the Pakistani Media is full of people like Orya Maqbool Jan who have been uttering poison 24/7 against the Western values but Imran Khan does not take blame of wrong doings of his own Muslim Media.

Reality is this till the time Muslim fanatics are present along with the non integrating Muslim community, till that the Right wing in the west will keep on getting the sympathy and their media campaign is going to get the popularity. And culprit is not the overall Western Media, but the real culprits are the Muslims themselves who come in millions to the West , but still don't want to integrate.


At the same time I believe there are multiple facets to this problem at hands and the media’s negative role is one big part of it.

Lame excuse.

No other community is at such extreme as the Muslim community despite lac of education and poverty. And if there is any, then they are also criticized like the crimes among the Latino community.

But none of them have the problem of Kafirophobia. This problem is only associated with the Muslim community, and they have been suffering badly with this disease.


The controversial verses in Quran are “turning millions of them into terrorists”?

Look at ISIS, Taliban, Syrian Jihadists, Boko Haram and you will find these millions of terrorists who are holding the arms in name of Sharia. They are not limited to Europe only.


Hence the best they can do is put those controversial verses in their proper historical context and make a case for why they aren’t relevant for our times.

There you will always fail and the extremist Muslims are always going to win the argument, while the proper historical context always standing with the extremist Muslims. That is why Muslims of last 14 centuries followed that opinion, till in this century some apologists tried to make excuses for these killings and hatred teachings out of context.


I have no more time to answer your long post where you are repeating the same allegations and making same mistakes again and again.
 
Some sickening posts.
Fascist views trying to make Muslims feel like they are the problem..
 
The most important part for me is that by your own admission millions of Afghans and hence millions of Muslims, since most Afghans are Muslims, are living peacefully in Europe without going on a killing spree. So are these Afghans reading a very different religious text than the other Muslims? Why aren't they suffering from your invented "Kafirophobia"? Or is it that the religious text isn’t the deciding factor and since they are the one effected most by Islamist terrorism, which the American are now negotiating with, and hence have little support for them.


No one has blamed these Afghans or other normal Muslims for being terrorists or killings. It is the propaganda from your side that terrorist bomb attacks upon the Western civilians have been done as reaction to the government wars, which is untrue as I have proved that these attacks have been done due to the Kafirophobia.
And this Kafirophobia has been turning some Muslims into terrorists, while compelling many to not to integrate in the Western society.
 
The deadly terror attack on two mosques in New Zealand is "another grim reminder" of rampant Islamophobia sweeping the world, Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, told a gathering of delegates on Sunday.

The senior diplomat was addressing a side-event on "Breaking Stereotypes: Muslim Women as agents of change", one of the four events organised by her, at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, a global gathering of women activists,

Take a look: Death toll of Pakistanis in New Zealand terror attacks rises to 9

Lodhi linked the Christchurch terror to stereotyping, which she argued can have serious consequences as it can lead to misconceptions, demonisation and violence.

"It's a slippery slope when Muslims are stereotyped and mischaracterised, sometimes deliberately by those who engage in hate speech," Ambassador Lodhi said.

She made a distinction between culture and religion, highlighting Islam's role as an enabling agent for Muslim women, contrary to Western misconceptions about the religion with respect to women's rights. According to Lodhi, the barriers to emancipation of women are patriarchal social structures and an overall lack of education in societies.

The annual meeting of the commission, which dates back to 1947, brought to the UN more than 9,000 representatives from civil society organisations. It will conclude on March 22. Khawar Mumtaz represented Pakistan and delivered her statement on Friday.

The event, a brainchild of Ambassador Lodhi, attracted a large audience with people prepared to stand throughout the hour and half event. About her own professional journey as a Muslim woman, she said it involved facing obstacles, overcoming fears but always keep dreaming.

"My professional path," Ambassador Lodhi said, "Constantly entailed challenging, defying and overcoming stereotypes."

"This almost becomes a lifetime occupational hazard for women [across the world], and not just in the Muslim world," she said. "The important thing is never to allow this to distract or diminish us."

She said women have two choices when confronted with attitudes shaped by stereotypes or when facing barriers: either seethe with resentment or press ahead vigorously to make a difference. She added that anger is not a strategy.

Other speakers from Indonesia, Turkey Qatar and Iran echoed the view that for Muslim women, faith is not a barrier; indeed throughout Islamic history women have played prominent public roles.

According to them a correct reading of religion showed that Islam was an enabling factor for women to pursue professional roles.

A lively question answer segment followed presentations by the panel of speakers. The session was moderated by Pakistani American Professor Ameena Zia.

Participating in the side-events were parliamentarians who came there to attend the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) hearings.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1470365/n...nder-of-islamophobia-sweeping-the-world-lodhi
 
There is a good reason for people to be wary of Islam and its rising population in the West.

Terrorists commit their crime in the name of Islam. The lis tof Islamic Terrorist organization is countless. Every other day, you see a new organization mushroom up and claim responsibility of some dastardly attack around the world.

Then you have idiots who want Sharia in the West and hold demonstrations about it. Sharia Zones and Muslim no go zones have become common in the West.

Unfortunately people in the West cannot differentiate between an innocent law abiding Muslim and an extremist. For them, all are same. The xenophobic feeling is ripe among Western people against Muslims and Islam. No wonder right wing political outfits are cropping up everywhere in the world.
 
You are mistaken.

The real cause is this:

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Due to this madness, whole of Muslim community is not integrating in the Western society, and they are in state of war with the western values.


I don't even know why people are bothering to respond to your trolling with page long posts when you are coming up with such blatant nonsense as this.
 
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