Quote from mookie427 :

and assume that all Muslims are the 'moderate' type who wouldn't dare go around blowing things up or shooting loads of people for the sake of their twisted religious views.

Where did he say (write) anything like that?

Quote from mookie427 :

He is trying to defame what you said because speed1 is just another one of the typical white middle class liberals who tell people what they should be offended by and don't dare criticise Islam because it might be seen as 'racist' or 'Islamophobic' (which isn't even a real word), and assume that all Muslims are the 'moderate' type who wouldn't dare go around blowing things up or shooting loads of people for the sake of their twisted religious views.

Instead of arguing about the motives and causes and whatnot, we need to stop and think long and hard about why certain sections of society believe it right to maim and kill as many people as possible in the name of some twisted version of their religion....

It has nothing to do with "not trying to offend anyone". It's rather about trying not to generalise a people or a relgious group by a few fundamentalists. And "a few" is actually quite an exaggeration, as there are about 1 and a half billion muslims out there, yet I doubt that there are more than a few thousand extremist terrorists.

OK maybe that was an overexaggeration of the problem but I'm just fed up of the attitude displayed by a lot of people, particularly in this country, that there is no extremist Muslim problem and that anyone who dares say anything against them is considered a racist because they might hurt their feelings....

Whether you agree with it or not, there is a war going on. I don't know if that means anything to some of you, but people are dying everyday because of people strapping bombs to their backs, and blowing themselves up in public places.

How can you expect people not to be at least a tad bit stereotypical, when the media spoon feeds everyone information that always contains the words "Muslim", "suicide bomber", and "Civilians and Americans killed". The media is responsible for 95% of the mass uprising of Muslim bashers. Unfortunately people still believe that if it's on the news, it must be fact, but that is sadly not the case. :twocents:

Quote from Homeless_Drunk :

...I mean shit, do you not read the news? This stuff happends everywhere, there are still Islamic driven bombings elsewhere...and blah blah blah.

Because Islamic driven everyday boring living doesn't make good TV.......err "news".