| Fei-Hung said: ISIS are known as Khawarij in the Muslim world I.e. Non Muslims who are destructive, rebellious and bringers of chaos and Anarchy. The problem is, since 9/11 the western world has given the Khawarij more credibility than the Muslim communities so now you have people who: 1) consider what these Khawarij terrorists believe to be far more credible than your everyday Muslim 2) people fearing everyday Muslims and Islam because they have been miseducated 3) people having the same extreme views and interpretations as the terrorists about a group of people and their faith than those who actually follow and practice it. |
1) No-one is claiming they're more credible. They just have a bigger effect so need to be treated as more of an issue.
2) That's not entirely true. The polling on opinions of everyday muslims across the world (by Pew as well as others) does not paint a very good picture. A lot of the fear is entirely genuine and not based on bigotry or generalisation at all. Here's a video by a muslim woman who explains the ACTUAL problem better than anyone else has:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPvnFDDQHk
The fact that a lot of people don't understand this problem (and think it's just a small extremist minority) IS indeed based on miseducation.
3) Very few people in the west have the same extreme views as the terrorists. Maybe a few wacky christians in the US. But that's about it. Unless of course you're just confusing xenophobia and hatred with the terrorists views. That's a confusion you really can't be making. Simple tribalism by itself can only motivate a very narrow range of extremist actions. You can't justify killing cartoonists with tribalism alone, you need an actual principled ideology to do that.
