ConnorEl
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guest column for W-SJ. Outlines his perspectives in relation to the recent Bin Laden news, etc.
I think it's worth a read.
I think it's worth a read.
as always, newspaper comment sections (and youtube comment sections) make me sad that people out there actually think like that
The young man will some day become a good advocate. Unfortunately he is silent on a key issue, one that is primarily responsible for his complaints. Namely, all of the people harbouring and financially supporting OBL were Muslims. If Muslims don't want to be associated with terrorism committed in the name of Islam, which I'm sure most don't, they need to do a better job of policing their own.
I will leave aside the fact that OBL was found less than a mile from the main Pakistani officer training university, where he had been living undisturbed for at least the last five years.
The young man will some day become a good advocate. Unfortunately he is silent on a key issue, one that is primarily responsible for his complaints. Namely, all of the people harbouring and financially supporting OBL were Muslims. If Muslims don't want to be associated with terrorism committed in the name of Islam, which I'm sure most don't, they need to do a better job of policing their own.
I will leave aside the fact that OBL was found less than a mile from the main Pakistani officer training university, where he had been living undisturbed for at least the last five years.
There are lots of reasons why people like that are the way they are. I mean number one is they are dumb as shit. Also though they are the type that fear what they don't know, so they don't know any muslims, they don't understand the religion, and so they go by the most publicized minority group crazy terrorists. I think on the other side muslims do a poor job of separating themselves from the crazy minority groups, being out and open, and having large public condemning of other muslims for their actions. People see all muslim countries and the news that is coming out of those countries and before the recent uprisings simple complacency of the majority while the minority crazies go about their business. Yet this is most likely over thinking of things and to return to my first point the majority of Americans are dumb as shit, and it is even more apparent now that their views can reach millions through the internet where before they were confined to bean supper with Joe after church.
Is it ok to call any of these folks redneck bigots? Shorty? Rednecks?
I'm a Christian, and I doubt that others judge me based on Westboro Baptist or the Florida Koran-burner.
Islam is a religion of 1.6 billion people. The vast vast vast majority of those who support OBL and other terrorists live thousands of miles away on the other side of oceans. I don't really know what this Lewisville resident is supposed to do.
I'm a Christian, and I doubt that others judge me based on Westboro Baptist or the Florida Koran-burner.
I thought the point of his piece was to let the average non-Muslim American know that Osama bin Laden really screwed up his life here in America - not to solicit sympathy or whine about the ways in which he did. I didn't take that he was seeking anyone's pity for his plight, just giving the reader perspective on bin Laden's crimes and his death from an American Muslim. The responses on this thread indicate to me that y'all took it differently. Like: "hey man, it sucks, but here is what you should have done..."
I could be wrong
It doesn't help that American Muslims and non-Muslims don't see eye-to-eye on Israel.
I think your reading is probably right. But there's not really a firm line between helping people to understand "the fires of anti-Muslim prejudice that have engulfed my country" post 9/11 and eliciting sympathy and/or defensiveness. And so away we go...