The MYTH of American Islamophobia

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FootballFan said:

Scoobes said:

PizzaFaceGamer said:

@theprof - i'm surprised americans are so tolerant of muslims especially since they continue to murder americans like muslim terrorist Nidal Hasan who murdered 12 soldiers in the name of allah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Malik_Hasan

Would you please stop associating the actions of a few as being the actions of an entire religion.

I don't think for one second that the US is Islamophobic (although some individuals obviously are), but you constantly sound like it.

A phobia is an irrational fear. A small percentage of spiders are harmful that leads to people having the fear. A small amount of Muslims are terrorists. Sure it is an irrational fear but considering the same principles of any other fear, it is bound to occur when terrorists (specifically Islamic) seem to be in a greater abundance than ever.

Here is an example, there was recently an explosion near where I live. The person thought it was a terrorists attacking, it is just an instilled reaction from what has happened to the West from a minority of brainwashed (insert word here) people from the east killing or fighting in the name of allah to kill/harm the infedels.

It's still irrational as you say and something that people should try to overcome. The IRA were constantly bombing London, yet I don't have a fear of the Irish (although that could be c'os they're great on a night out in the pub!).

That irrational fear shouldn't become cause to completely blame an entire group.

Off topic: The spiders thing probably isn't the best example. There's also some inherrent psychological reason for the fear due to the way they move... it's just creepy :P