Why are Muslim nations so sensitive?
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U agree with godswondi.... in fact there is interesting Arabic proverb which makes fun of ignorants way. it said "take them away with loud, you ll win"   meaning, if you shout shout shout, they will stop talking and you will win the arguement!!  \nit is the same way.  when Danish apologize and more europe concern, they said it is victory, I read this on several websites such as the comments of readers of Al-Arabia nad those alike.  \nSome said that without force the world will not act.  this is also cited by an egyptian famous writer (Najeeb Mahfooz), but maybe he has no choice only to say that, cuz he was victim of Islamists for his secular publications and criticsm to Islam.  once they attempted to murder him, they stabbed him, as far as I remember, around the neck.
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I notice that Muslims in the West are more naive and believing. Many of them are either extremely religious or liberal. Many of them would study the history of Islam, and the Life of the Prophet Muhammad, amongst many Islamic resources, as they progress, or before they convert.\nThey focus less on the rituals (like which foot goes into the bathroom, which side is better to sleep on etc, more on theoratical and scholarly side.)\nHowever, Muslims in Asia are in both extremes. Extremely religious, or extremely non-religious. Many of the non-religious people don't even know their own religion at all, they're only born Muslim.\nMany are rather moderate and practice their religion so personally you'd never know they were really muslims, even if the women in the family wore headscarfs.\nMany are nice, ordinary people.\n\nHowever, they focus more on the "physical", the rituals, less on the history, mostly by route memorization of specific texts and verses picked here and there rather than knowing the full meaning and verse, sentence, paragraph or origin of the text. This could be because they were born Muslim and many have read the Qu'ran by memorization only.\n\nThis isn't counting the extreme-thought Muslims who are holier-than-thou with their attitudes but still sleep around and drink alcohol - like my Saudi friend.
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We care because Muslims have waged war on their neighbors since their so called prophet led an army against his neighbors and forced them to convert by fire and sword. \n\nEvery other major world religion has been attacked over and over again without justification for the last thousand years and nothing in the Muslim religion appears to have changed. \n\nNote that Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt were all Christian countries before they were attacked and conquered by Muslims. \n\nAnd those countries were Christan because people were peacefully converted by the example of Jesus and his Disciples. But it took war, massacre and slaughter to convert people to  Islam.\n\nReasonable people will judge accordingly.
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You're preaching to the chorus my man.  If you want the west to accept Islam then you have to convince the dangerous radicals that Islam is a religion of peace.  Don't tell us, tell them.  The only thing we care about is not being blown up.
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I've written a great deal about the dangers of Islam lately, but you must understand, there is a great deal of misunderstanding about the Middle-east due to differences that most Westerners don't even consider:\n1) When most Westerners speak, they look at the speaker when listening, but the speaker looks away most of the time.\nFor many Middle-eastern cultures it is the other way around, looking when speaking, and looking away when listening.  Here's the funny part: It makes Westerners look like they are evasive and deceitful when the speak and too bold when they listen.  Westerners often think Middle-eastern people to be careless listeners and to be too forceful when talking, all due to differences in body language!\n2) The personal space of many Middle-eastern people is much smaller, and conversations often occur at a close enough distance to make most Westerners very uncomfortable.  Middle-eastern people often find Westerners suspicious and distant.\n3) In the Middle-east, the left hand is considered private and is not used to touch others often, as it is the hand used for cleaning oneself.  The right hand is used for eating and touching.  Westerners are very careless by Middle-eastern standards and touch everything with either hand, while some Middle-easterners seem hesitant to touch or awkward due to switching hands to do something.\n4) My mother used to travel extensively with her father, an oil executive, to the Middle-east, and became Sufi herself, as did her mother.  She commented often about how people would respond with "it broke itself" rather than "it broke".  They would leave cars by the side of the road, dispose of clocks that ran down, not because they didn't know it could be repaired, but because there was no real acceptance of trying to fix things that have 'broken themselves'.\n5) Western women are careless, provocative, and flaunt themselves constantly, proving they are whores to Middle-eastern morals.  Western women who then turn around and pretend they aren't are even lower.  The poor Western women are totally perplexed when the clothing, manners, and words that we accept in a free society and still respect the rights of the woman involved suddenly results in 'undeserved abuse'!  It's even worse if in their countries!\n6) Much of the flowery speech so wildly exaggerated by Western films of how Middle-easterners speak to each other is based on what to them is proper courtesy.  Imagine stepping back in time a century or two and see what effect YOUR speech would have on U.S. citizens!  No, they see us as rude and often get even more polite, while at the same time determining how best to be done with you, leaving Westerners even more confused when they suddenly find themselves politely being shown the door!  Westerners are used to rudeness as a sign that they have made a mistake, and a chance to fix it.\n7) Do I really need to go on?  Their values and personalities are quite reasonable for their culture and beliefs, but mixed with ours, it's dynomite waiting to explode.\n\nNone of this excuses the misunderstandings for either group, and sometimes it comes down to "us or them", but it never hurts to be aware of these things.  I strongly suggest people read the Koran, not just for cultural understanding (always useful), but to recognize the dangers that Islam poses to the West until it goes through the reformation those in the know are trying to start, by force, if necessary.\n\nOh, I think a few things about their personality could be learned from.  But I'm a U.S. citizen and patriot.  Stand strong, folks, but understand what you are facing.  One day they'll be some of our best allies, just like Japan.
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If this is true, it means that Muslims have to learn alot to really become tolerant. I still recall the violent demonestration in Syria, Libya, Pakistan...etc. The funny thing is that most of those governments have never allowed any demonstrations before.
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The ongoing conflict between the Islamic world and Denmark has resulted from the fact that many in the western world do not understand what mohammed (PBUH) means to muslims. He is dearer to the vast majority of muslims ( religious and non religious) than thier lives, families and homeland.
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Bringing a question which you can know the answer from the Muslim population. However you received answers of negative minded people who commented just to hurt the feelings. Be careful not to pose a question which might just give another opportunity to sick minded people to attack any religion. I mean any religion should not be attacked by insensitive comments. Lets respect everybodys beliefs and let everybody practise religion of their choice.The bottom line of every religion is attaching to God, do no harm to others and do good as much as you can.\nI hope it doesnt offend any body. if it does, then apologies.
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It is so because the rest of us let them get away with bigotry. We will gladly confront Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Liberals, Conservatives, Americans, French, Japanese, Capitalists and Communists with whatever gripe we may have with their beliefe system but when it comes to Islam, we shy away from making them uncomfortable. After 9/11, instead of being more answerable for thier baseless belief system, the wold has moved to allowing them to be more evasive. They are the "Victims" of stereotyping - not the perpetrators of more than 90% of terrorist acts in this world. They are the 'religion of peace'! Yeah right.\n\nA Christian has to struggle and give everyone a satisfactory explaination for his belief in immaculate conception or resurrection, A jew has to explain why he thinks God gave them Israel but a Muslim never has to explain why if God chose anyone for the job, why would he pick a womanizing mass-murderer to be His last prophet? A Muslim never has to explain why he thinks Jewish settlement in West Bank as occupation but why Muslims controlling all the land outside Mecca-Medina, including what is now Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan Pakistan, Jordan, Yemen and Syria not Islamic Occupation?\n\nAnd of course then there is the standard issue excuse that only 0.1% of Muslims are bad 99.9 percent of Muslims are peace loving. So here is my question: If someone gave you a glass of milk that is 99.9% milk and 0.1% cyanide, would you drink it?
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It can be very difficult to practice a religion different than a country's state religion or predominant religion. For example, as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, we could not teach Muslims because of the repercussions they could have if they joined another religion and decided to return to their home country. I knew a man from Bangladesh that wanted to find out more about our religion. We wanted to teach him but could not because he was Muslim.
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The Prince is not a Muslim and neither am I. But he, like myself, apparently wishes to learn about the Muslim faith in order to understand the people. It is through learning that misunderstanding and prejudice can be defeated and peace is possible. He wants to promote a positive attitude between Muslims and his own faith, just as I do. Not all Muslims are Godforsaken animals like Osama Bin Ladin. What is wrong with the Prince being a diplomat? He will be King one day and if I were a British citizen, I would want our King to use diplomacy and to promote peace. When our Towers collapsed, it was then that I took an interest in Islam and Muslims because I just wanted to understand the culture. I knew in my heart that Bin Ladin was not a man of God and I did not wish to condemn all Muslims nor Islam. It would be a grave injustice to do so. I remain Christian and I now have many Muslim friends and they are wonderful, caring, peace loving people. I too believe that the cartoon of Muhammed should be condemned and that it was a horrible, disprespectful thing to do. How would the English feel if someone did something like that to the Queen? While I'm sure it's happened, I'm quite sure that it offended people. Even as an American, I would be offended if someone did that to the Royal family as I am of British descent. If you wish to judge the Prince, then look at both sides of the coin. I commend Charles and the people of England for not condemning all Muslims as so many around the world do. Education and positive relations between cultures are the key to peace in my book. To remain open minded is to remain open hearted and God knows we need that now.
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Why would Muslims care?  Shouldn't you ask a Catholic???
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It's not about religion; it's about politics. Most Muslims live in countries where either the entire population is poor or where society is sharply divided between the ultra wealthy and the poor. When the United Staes, a relatively wealthy country with a very high standard of living, interferes in Middle Eastern politics, many of the policy decisions we make often appear to be aligned with the wealthier or more privileged contingencies, such as the Saudi Arabian royalty or the Israeli goverment, and opposed or at the very least unhelpful to less privileged contingencies, such as Palestinians or Kurds. To most Arab Muslims, it appears that the U.S. government is just another one of the oppressors, and that all our talk about democracy and Christianity is purely rhetoric aimed at rationalizing and covering our self-serving and hypocritical interests.\n\nBut most Muslims do not hate Americans although they do resent or mistrust the U.S. government. It just appears that they all hate us because our news coverage of course covers events which portray hatred and hostility rather than peace or cooperation. It's just the nature of the news.
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Study our recent U.S. history (20 years) and you will discover that more than 95% of our terrorist attacks and wars are against Muslims, and that they are the instigators of such activities.\n\nOR -\n\nStudy religion.  What are the Muslim faith doctrines ... OOPS!  "Death to all infidels!!!" (you are an infidel if you are not a muslim).\n\nNot all religions preach violence; you mentioned Christianity in your question, as I understand it christians preach peace, hope and love.\n\nOR -\n\nStudy Ancient History.  As far back as you would care to travel in time you will find the muslims at the heart of conflict from their very inception as a family, then tribe, then nation, then world religion.\n\nOR -\n\nStudy sociology.  Muslims view of life does understand that what you 'believe is true, is true' regardless of how other individuals or nations regard truth.  The driving force in Muslims lives is their religion because they clearly see that it is their belives that give meaning to life (and direction for their life choices).\n\nMeet a devote muslim and you will meet a person that has NO tolerance for anyone who does not believe exactly as they do. \n\nThis is true of very few of the 5000+ religions in the world.\n\nIn my opinion, muslims are just like you and me (hopefully), individulas that in the U.S. have the right to their thoughts and beliefs as long as they are not hurting others.  BUT therein lies the problem.\n\nThe scottish have a saying "Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me."\n\nWhy are people racist . . .
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I agree with the majority here...it's intolerance that fuels most of these conflicts.  For example, the bulk of what is causing the unrest in the Middle East is a clash of cultures...one seeks to bring about a global caliphate per the instructions of its religious tome, the Quran.  Westernized nations mostly reject theocratic rule, and therein lies the conflict.  One cannot tolerate the other since they both are so diametrically opposed.  This results in open hostility and since one side is largely ineffectal in its miltary ability, they resort to subversive tactics such as terrorism and subterfuge.
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The problem is that these countries controlled by religious class and dictator governments which prohibit and restrict free press and exchange of other ideas.  Most Muslim countries prohibit or otherwise threatened by violence anyone preach his/her religion to Muslims.  Media restricted, everything restricted. and only one way of understanding imposed on the society. so of course when you're child you hear mostly about Islam is the best and other relgiions suck, and you even study Islam in school esepecially if you are Muslim.   \nOne way of thinkin, one view, one eye, cuz lots of misunderstanding and extremism.  and that's why in my view that extremism increased in Islamic world, despite that other relgiions' extreme fans reduced much.    if you don't see the whole picture how you can judge it?   that's the case of many Muslims.  their reaction is non-logical and too much.  and it is hyprocacy by those who lead it, because it is true, in Islamic world other relgions critcizied and rediculated.\n\nSome they might tell you that NO, Muslim respect "Jesus (PBUH)" but then mostly they add "as prophet", they already put conclusiom. that's because they already believe in Jesus and Moses according to Islam, not according to rsepect other relgions.  for instance, Buddha is often insulted in some TV shows, jokes and some cermons.   Hindu also rediculated.  Newspapers often insult Jewish star and rediculate it and connect it with Israelites attrocities.   While NO single Muslim or very less would accept tie Islmic symobls to Terrorism.    Van Gogh, holand move director, killed because he shows Quran verses on women body in his movie.  does that make any sense?  and many say that was good this man who killed him.   OF COURSE, NOT ALL MUSLIMS SUPPOT THAT AND NOT MAJORITY... many Muslims I heard them they criticized that reaction and they call for calm down. \n\nThanks
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Muslims are offended when they perform terrorist acts and then are branded as terrorists, as you note.  The reason they are offended is that they underrate the average person's intelligence.\n\nThey will not disapprove of terrorism, because they regard it as their most effective e&#92;weapon in Islamizing the entire world.