Whenever someone criticizes Islam they are given a flurry of threats. A former Muslim wrote an article in an Oklahoma newspaper in which he criticized all religions and said Muhammad was not perfect. Within two days he received 30 threats on his phone--from people he knew from the local Muslim community--and this included death threats. This was one guy in one newspaper. Look at what happened during the Dutch cartoon controversy which was globalized by Islamists. Why? People criticize Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, etc. all the time and no one threatens them with murder.
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Did you know that in Holland u r not allowed to insult the Queen of Holland else you will get fined??
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No but that is a joke law. We have none like that in America. You cannot compare a fine to death sentences for criticism or apostasy.
In Holland can you criticize the prime minister, Jesus, or Moses?
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You keep on saying that your not against Islam and you did not say that Islam is a Fascist religion but Islamist are Fascists. But you contue to mention Muslims of the world and Muslims countries of the world. Whils you know its a small minority who are very good in propagating the Wahabi type of Islam. Majority of Muslim is not followling that type of Islam.
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You are confusing two separate things. Islamism is Fascist but there are objectionable elements common to the Muslim world, such as persecution of religious minorities. I mention that because of the myth that those things are being done by a minority. Who in Pakistan stands for equal rights for minorities? No one because it is accepted that just like the sky is blue "kafirs" are inferior. Only a minority of Muslims are Islamists but most accept "kafir" inferiority. Am I supposed to pretend this is not so? This is one reason the Muslim world has stood still for the past 300+ years. There is little self-criticism (notice how nearly everything is blamed on outsiders?). If you have no flaws there is nothing to correct. So nothing changes and the Islamic world keeps slipping farther and farther behind. I am trying to help. I hope the Islamic world adopts modern values such as freedom of thought, religion, speech, equal rights for women and minorities. There is a clash between people in Islamic lands who believe in these things and Islamists and I want to see the liberals win the clash.
As a historical analogy, was Christianity racist when European colonialism existed? No, but Christians were at the time. Islam itself can be interpreted a million different ways, just like any religion.
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You also think that those who are against USA they are by default Wahabi's
well majority of Europeans does not agree with the USA foreign policy mate so does that make them a Wahabi?
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No. There are many Americans who disagree with American foreign policy as well. Islamists are easy to spot: they openly state that they are Islamist. They are proud of their ideology and its program. Who are some examples of Islamists? Qazi Hussein, Mahmoud Ahmednijad, Ayman Al-Zahwari, Mullah Omar, whoever is the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Khalid Mishal, etc.
Islamists' beef with America goes far beyond foreign policy. There opposition is mainly ideological for America is the best example of liberal, democratic, secular values. If the issue were merely foreign policy why were there no "Death to Russia" marches in the Middle East/Pakistan-Afghanistan? Were Soviet flags burned? Did anyone fly planes into Moscow State University? Did many Muslims obsess about the USSR? For 40 years the USSR as also a superpower. However, unlike America it occupied Muslim majority areas (as well as non-Russian areas such as the Ukraine and Belarus) in the Soviet empire. Muslims complained often about US support for Israel during the 70's and 80's because Israel occupies Palestinian ares. Well, where was the outrage regarding the USSR? The USSR itself ruled 50 million Muslims and occupied 5 Muslim majority republics. The Soviets saved Israel in 1948 (through Czechslovkia) while the US did nothing. It was Israel's chief ally during Israel's early years while the US was aloof from it. Was the Soviet Union hated in the Muslim world for this? No.
The Iraq war is often cited as a reason for some Muslims hating America but that happened in 2003. What was the Muslim, and especially Islamist, beef with America for the previous half century? "Support" for dictators? Well, the Soviets did the same thing and few hated the Soviets. Let's look at Pakistan as a case study. Pakistan has had two dictators in the past 30 years. Who were its biggest allies? The US--and Saudi Arabia. Yet no country is revered more by Pakistanis than Saudi Arabia. China also "supported" Zia and Musharaaf. Pakistanis still like China. Moreover, what exactly is this "support"? The US gives Jordan $400 million a year. Is that enough to purchase Jordan? Get real. The US gives $0 to Saudi Arabia. Yet we are told the US "controls" Saudi Arabia, a nation which exports hatred of "kafirs" around the world--including even in America?
What makes the US unique? Its cultural, economic, and ideological dominance. No one watched Soviet movies or listened to Russian films outside of the USSR. How many people sent their kids to study in Moscow and Leningrad? Few looked to the Soviet Union as a model state, although this was the case in a few countries. Who traded in rubles and worried about the impact of the Soviet economy on their country? The Soviet cultural, economic, and ideological influence was largely limited to the Communist bloc; American influence in these areas extended everywhere else than and now extends practically everywhere.
While the typical Muslim may dislike the US over its policy on Israel (although this is unclear. Where was this opposition when the USSR saved Israel in 48'?), Islamist opposition is more fundamental and will not end based on anything the US could do. Remember what Khomeni said: he did not fear economic sanctions or the American military. What he feared was Western (chiefly American) universities. The reason is obvious: he feared the ideas taught in those citadels of knowledge. Islamists hate Western culture and admit it. They recognize Western culture is the opposite of their values and Western culture has a global appeal. The US is the leader of the West so it becomes the recipient of their hatred of the West. They want their ideology imposed upon the world; America's cultural and ideological appeal and its power are the chief obstacle to their plans just as it stood in the way of Nazism and Communism in the past.
