When you are ignorant about something, you start blaming it

waaao!! I m really amazed to hear your views!

People in the US, I don’t know CA, often blame Muslims because it is their job. Ex: Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter. They know they’re going to get a big reaction for their words and that keeps people watching TV. It’s not personal to them, it’s business selling hate.

I think it’s disgusting, but there’s nothing I can do except tune them out. If everyone ignored them, they’d be out of a job. Problem is that “mainstream” media pays attn to them so people need to defend their community. There’s no right answer to this problem.

Leeroy I am from the US and we don’t automatically blame Muslims for the ills of the world. And my job pays…blaming others does not. Myself and allot of others included typically put the blame where it should lay. Now, everyone has their opinion but to generalize over 200 million of us here in the states does a disservice to those who really don’t have a narrow minded view of the world.

I believe that people are just not educated enough in the subject; because if one was truly familiar with the Quraan, one would know that there are many* similarities between all the religions. I myself am of Mexican decent that converted to Islam, and my dear mother is the BIGGEST critic- throwing stereotypes at me left and right, and I have to sit her down and explain that actions or mis-portrayals of a certain religion does not apply to all. There are extremist and ignorant people in all cultures, religions and races. People should just try to educate themselves more instead of coming to wrong assumptions lol

I will address some of your statements:Have you seen what happened to Arab countries? They got more money than they know what to do with. When a country has too much money that they decide to make an indoor ski resort in the desert, each family has a house mansion with over 10 acre land, each mansion has several maids, etc, then you have to ask your self, who are the more civilized and cultured people that they can do whatever they dream of?

Money does not make you civilized – if that’s the case a streetbum could be given a million dollars and instantly become civilized and cultured / Far more Arabs are poor rather than rich (I am in Iraq right now and I have seen the extreme poor as well as “normal” lifestyles – please do not make yourself look like an idiot by saying that Americans caused this)
1) Muslims did it. 2) Muslims are terrorists. 3) Muslims are violent.

Also, for those that think that in Islam we don�t accept other religions, then you are so wrong.

In Islam, all non-Muslims are considered “infidels”
(I should not be telling a Muslim this)

I seldom talk about religion or care to discuss it anyways on my site, but seriously, I am sick of reading ignorant people�s blog posts about it. You know NOTHING about it, so why you you automatically assume that:

1) Muslims did it. 2) Muslims are terrorists. 3) Muslims are violent.

Maybe some people are prone to making these generalizations, but it would not be an issue if Muslims would stand up for what is right (en masse). Each of those generalizations has a basis in facts. By not taking a stand against religous zealots – you are condoning their acts by default.

First in World War II, when there was prejudice against Jews

BOY, what an understatement. (so wrong on many levels)

Anyway, I could have even went further with your posting but I got tired and disgusted.

I just want to share some personal notes:

I would love nothing more than to be friends / friendly with Arabs. We have under employment here on our base some local Iraqis for the PX and such. One thing that I personally have trouble with is their seeming rudness. Whenever I make purchases at the military PX I never receive a “hello”, “thank you”, “have a nice day” or “goodbye”. Are manners just too foreign to them?

You probably will not post this because you like to slant things in your favor.

@Glenn
In regards to “In Islam, all non-Muslims are considered �infidels�”. I know they teach this in zionist 101, but this just proves the point, ignorance. Islam does not categorize non-muslims as infidels. Does knowing someone lied to you about Islam teach you anything? I didn’t bother reading the rest of your non-sense. Anyway if you want to know what Islam is, read the Quran, not pieces taken out of context. Pick up a trusted translation and read.

Islam is like other religions in many senses, and therefore sucks like the rest (they are all just a bunch of legends to avoid facing reality as it is and ideologies to make sure the low obey the high, in the name of “God”, that imaginary friend/master who is apparently nowhere). But also being more politically and socially imbricated, possibly since its very inception, it allows for less separation of religion and society and state, at least in most cases. In general it’s very intolerant towards freedom of religion (or lack of it) even today. And is also pretty much mysoginistic, even if you don’t realize.

Have you seen what happened to Arab countries? They got more money than they know what to do with.

I’ve never been in Hollywood Saudia but I know how is life in Morocco, Egypt, Iraq or Gaza. The vast majority of Arabs don’t live in any mansion nor have maids. They live in slums or at best in modest apartments and put up with it “in the name of God”. Religion is the opium of the people.

Don’t know you, but when I think of Arabs in general, the last think I imagine is a Saudi sheikh. Normally I think in Egyptians, Syrians, Algerians or Palestinians. Those are the vast majority of Arabs. Egypt is the largest Arab country by large, followed by Morocco, Algeria and Iraq.

Arab nations have still one of the worst indexes of literacy on Earth (much of this can be extended to all Muslim nations).

I don’t mean to be Arabophobic. I am not. I just state the obvious: that opressed by religious laws and other stagnating traditions, Arab (and Muslim in general) peoples are going through a very bad age of decline and uncertainty. Maybe a handful of oil-rich totalitarian monarchies of the desert have fared better in the economic sense but that seems to have no merit, as oil wealth is an accident, not human produce. And for the most part they are not reinvesting the gains appropiately, but rather wasting it in “indoor sky resorts” and similar nonsenses.

1) Muslims did it. 2) Muslims are terrorists. 3) Muslims are violent.

That is just a consensuated attempt by the world elites to create the perfect enemy: Islamism. An ideology restricted essentially to a particular region (of high strategic importance, not just because of oil but also because of trade routes) of the world and certain ethnic groups. A murderous Islamism like the kind of Al Qaeda (IMO a creation of the Mossad and CIA, with the full complicity of Saudia) is the perfect enemy to justify to a complacient public opinion atrocities like the ones comitted against Gaza last weeks. An ideology that cannot attract any sympathies outside the Muslim ghetto (sure there are some mansions in the ghetto but that doesn’t make any difference) is much better foe than Socialism, that can in fact attract many sympathies everywhere, including the heart of the beast (the USA).

Western Christians would hate Islamism because it’s un-Christian, Western atheists and other secularists will despise it because it’s Christian-like (and even more alien and uncomprehensible), Chinese will hate it because it’s Western, Hindus because of Pakistan and Kashmir, etc. And then they start mass-killing people, mostly Muslims btw, providing pretexts for military-political operations all through the Muslim world. It doesn’t matter that the most fundamentalist country, Saudia, is spared and the most secularist one, Iraq, is attacked instead. Politicians and the media will create confusion about all that and any Muslim country, no matter how secular or fundamentalist, can become a target on such pretext if they dare to challenge the status quo.

What you see is just simple minded people who are brainwashed by this political-mediatic plot to create the perfect enemy. And, as Muslim, you are by definition in the wrong side of the red line. Absurd, I know, but that’s how it is.

When I was studying in the States long ago people hated the USSR and had no strong opinions about Muslims. But now it’s different: they have created a new enemy, a weaker one, to replace the USSR.

Also, for those that think that in Islam we don�t accept other religions, then you are so wrong.

Most readings of Islamic doctrine are only tolerant to Judaism and Christianity. Atheists, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Buddhists, Pagans, etc. have no real room. In Egypt like many other Muslim regimes people have their supposed religion stated in their ID cards. Only Islam, Christianism and Judaism are possible. If you are atheist or Buddhist you have no right to exist. It’s the same in Saudia and many other countries.

If you’d want to convert from Islam to some other religion, or just drop faith alltogether, you’d be snubbed and deprecated, if not killed, by your fellow Muslims. You can be “unreligious” as long as you remain formally Muslim but you cannot just convert or drop religion.

An circumcission should be forbidden, a well as polygyny. Both are signs of a most Patriarchal society. the first symbolizes castration of the boy by the father (so no rebellion allowed), the second is just sooo obvious.

Said all that, much of the same was (or even still is) true of Christianism and so many other religions through the World. Islam is just one among many remnants of a credulous illiterate pre-scientific past.

I stopped reading right after you compared the Islam with peaceful religions which don’t have texts in their books as “throw gay people of tall buildings”.

And you call other people ignorant? WOW!

@Glenn, you americans (yes generalizing) really think that the world revolves around you. Calling nations civilized because they have money and can build indoor ski resorts? Great call, yet the money comes from a scarce resource, which will run out sooner than later. There’s only 1 country in the arab world working to ensure their wealth after it runs out of oil; Dubai.

Comparing bums & countries shows how much you actually know about this topic.

Well, my bestfriend is a Muslim. Though we are not of the same religion, we are of the same structure, a human. and we mutually love each other. I loathe people who judge others by status or profile. Giving an ounce of respect is not a very hard thing to do.

Mona : Your defense on Arabs being civilized because we have money and maids is utter bull. I lived in the UAE for 17 years and I rarely saw any civilized people walk or drive out of those “mansions”. The fact that they have 7 maids to dwell on their every needs makes them lazy and ignorant. Let’s not get into the topic of “maid abuse” in the middle east because that’s a whole other story.
Also, the reason Islam is hated so much is because of two things :
1. It has been abused over the years to a point where some ideas are followed blindly. There’s no place in the Qur’an to ask “Why?”
2. The media f**ks up everything, and blames it on whoever it wants to get TV ratings up and brainwash ignorant fu**ers who don’t know shit about the way of life.
Glenn, ya 7mar, Islam does not say that all non-muslims are infidels. Islam embraces other religions that worship God. You want Iraqi’s to be pleasant to you ? Stop setting up bases in their land and get the f**k out of their country!

@glenn:

There is no such thing as an infidel in the Quran, only people who are oppressive or sinful and then get wiped out by God’s wrath; much like in Judaism and Christianity. The whole good book is pretty much full of those parables of societies and civilizations being wiped away for their sins and transgressions against God. In the Quran, other than fairly descriptive laws towards the issue of inheritance, the only other most consistent theme is the belief in God and the monotheistic views of God.

Those people who don’t say hello to you when you buy your toilet paper are either a) tired as hell after working long shifts for low pay serving what they see as a foreign occupier, or b) have a lot of stress on their minds and simply forgot. Don’t hold it against them. I’ve lived in the states and in England for many years. Plenty of rude people there too.

As said by you: “Maybe some people are prone to making these generalizations, but it would not be an issue if Muslims would stand up for what is right (en masse). Each of those generalizations has a basis in facts. By not taking a stand against religious zealots – you are condoning their acts by default.”

As opposed to say.. blindly following your group of leaders towards two wars and their respective consequences for regional hegemony and lots and lots of reconstruction profits? The difference on this side is that as Muslims (TRUE MUSLIMS) we are taught to not seek violence unless there is no other way and to let live and hope God’s plan works out all alright. Perhaps that may be a little too passive and I myself do wish for more activism, but it’s not the same as say, voting for Bush… twice.

A real Muslim knows that being a Muslim is about understanding, compassion, and above all, the belief that we are all born Muslims despite life’s influences and should all be treated as equals and with mutual respect. Please don’t assume that Osama’s interpretation of Islam (which is called Wahhabism) is the true or even the definitive interpretation.

Mona… I apologize for this graffiti on your blog, I just felt I had to say something.

Wel, then i am through with your blog!

no wonder you don’t talk about religion!

Next time you pick up a primary source for…say, any ancient text, thank a Muslim.

Muslim culture made the Renaissance possible. I, for one, really enjoy the basics of architecture that, you know, keep a building UP…

I do have one question, why aren’t there any protests whenever an Imam starts spewing anti-semetic slogans and telling the the congregants to kill Jews but endless protests against Israel and the United States? I’m just curious about this double standard.

I understand that arabs as are semetic as are Jews and most peoples of the fertile cresent. However the term anti-semetic is used to describe a person or persons who are anti-jewish. May I ask what is true Islam and what makes it different than say wahhabist and other such groups?

let me get this right ,what you’re saying is that if someone is rich or has a lot of money (rich arabs)than they are “civilized”?so by you’re definition if people are poor or form less prosperous countries that makes them uncivilized.i don’t know about you but that sounds like the most prejudice statement i have read in along time.having a lot of money does not make someone civilized!its how you treat others especially those who are different from you that demonstrates the extent of your “civility”.by your definition the Saudis are the most civilized of the Muslims because they have the most oil(yeah right) and the Turks most uncivilized because they haven’t any(i think the opposite is true, but that’s just me)! So before trying to enlightened the ignorance of others make sure you don’t fall into the same pitfall by becoming prejudice yourself.