http://www.excal.on.ca/features/hijacking-my-religion/

Im a muslim , im with wearing a scarf on the hair of women only , but im against covering your face , thats just too much and i would be scared for my life ,again coming from a muslim

Twelve , people can say "everything i ever needed to know about christianity i learned at the Holocaust"


Stop hating , I love muslims and Christians .. Just because a bunch of phsycos , you judge a whole religion ?

Originally Posted by Reda

Im a muslim , im with wearing a scarf on the hair of women only , but im against covering your face , thats just too much and i would be scared for my life ,again coming from a muslim

Yeah...don't know why they had a pic of a woman with her face covered :S

The point is, I don't care if someone has a religion or what faith they belong to, stereotypes and misconceptions hurt everyone!

Originally Posted by Reda

Twelve , people can say "everything i ever needed to know about christianity i learned at the Holocaust"

Or how about "everything I ever needed to know about Judaism I learned in 33 A.D."

Surprise, people are fickle and ignorant!

Also the same reason why democracy fails.

I have two points:
1. People are freaked out by other people ALL the time, and there is a real over sensitivity right now about it only happening the muslims, that has to end if normalcy is ever to be achieved
2. Any muslim man who expects woman to wear a hijab better be rocking a beard if he doesn't want to be a hypocrite.

I disagree with this article on so many points. One of the foe example is this:

"But if our increasingly politicized and propagandized media programming is any indication, the War on Terror has become a War on Islam."

Politics and media are on the complete other end of this spectrum. They dance to the beat of the muslim populations will out of fear of not being politically correct and social backlash. The media especially labels everything as "islamophobia" and makes it seem like its way more prevalent than it is and makes examples out of non-issue events. Yet for some reason everyone is still so sensitive to any possible hint (real or not) of someone not being bffs with a muslim they walk past in the street. There will NEVER be a time when its the norm, when no one cares if its a muslim or anyone else crossing their path if everyone keeps making a big deal out of the smallest things. The next generation will just grow up thinking that its still the norm to think of muslims as different. I'm not saying we shouldn't care about muslims being treated differently, im saying that its relatively such a small problem that its like allocating 50% of medical research money to aids when aids is only affecting 5% of people who are sick (made up numbers), just because aids is a hot social topic.

Originally Posted by InsideMINDS

The media especially labels everything as "islamophobia" and makes it seem like its way more prevalent than it is and makes examples out of non-issue events. Yet for some reason everyone is still so sensitive to any possible hint (real or not) of someone not being bffs with a muslim they walk past in the street.

I understand what you're trying to say, but like all types of racism, it is not possible for you to say how prevalent islamophobia is unless you go about your business on any given day wearing the hijab and have insults thrown at you on a near daily basis.

Originally Posted by dsalvatore

Yeah...don't know why they had a pic of a woman with her face covered :S

The point is, I don't care if someone has a religion or what faith they belong to, stereotypes and misconceptions hurt everyone!

she's the author....


ps. i just noticed we have similar names

Long story short. I hate the media, just like how I hate how hypocritical the US is with its foreign policy. Not to hijack the thread or anything but.. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/...129484283.html

In this day and age its sad that I can't find any real fault in the woman getting scared. I would not have personally reacted the same way, but at this point its (sadly) somewhat understandable. At least she didn't scream or say something completely out of line, like a lot of people would.

LOL paranoia at its peak.

Terrible article. Here are a few points that I immediately had problems with.

Terrorism is not limited to a specific, race, religion, appearance, educational background, or social class.

It is not limited to Islam, but lets be serious here. Jihad is a virtue in Islam unlike in most other religions. Are suicide threats from someone who practices jainism a real concern? How about Catholic terrorism (it seems they are too busy with child abuse scandals). Furthermore, public support for terrorism against non-combatants, even in secularized Islamic countries like Turkey, are much higher than anywhere in the Western world, and higher than in other religions.

No, not every Muslim is a terrorist, but the author cannot simply expect us to ignore the current events around the world and have us treat every religion as equal when it comes to violence.

It is true that some people have committed heinous crimes in the name of Islam. However, their actions are never justified or endorsed by upright Muslims who embrace and preserve the true spirit of Islam.

That's a great example of a no true Scotsman fallacy. Who exactly gets to define the true spirit of Islam? And where are the Islamic moderates when the extremists start threatening cartoonists? Why is there no outcry from the Islamic community when authors get killed in the name of Islam simply for exercising free speech?

And even if the moderates did protest, why should the extremists listen? After all, the extremists are the ones who are more faithful to their holy books. They don't pick and choose verses, and don't simply ignore the violent ones. They take no pleasure in coming up with more peaceful metaphors for the "literal word" of God.