why do people view muslims as terrorist, how can this sterotype stop?
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Can anyone not understand why we see a direct link between terrorism and Islam?  \n\nCan anyone not see the absurdity of leaders who are also zealots calling for the annihilation of Israel and all Jews?  Can any woman not object to the misogyny that pushes women back to the stone age?  Can any parent not be repulsed by images of little boys and girls blowing themselves up to kill innocents in the name of a religious belief?\n\nName one prominent and popular Muslim cleric / leader who has publicly denounced terrorism and jihad and all it stands for, and who has apologized to the targets of those who carry out this mayhem in the name of Allah. \n\nWhere is the leadership on the side of sanity?\n\nOf course it's wrong to generalize about any race, culture or religion.  I'm Catholic and currently there's a LOT of generalization and bias about priests and sex abuse.  Why?...because it's been happening.  But Catholic leaders everywhere have apologized for the behavior of this minority within their ranks.  \n\nIt's a darned better public position than to whine about stereotyping.
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Its just a bad conotation that is associated with the religion as each terrorist cites their source of inspiration being Muslim. Plus Muslim cultures try to protect their way of life by rejecting and hating western society.
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The problem with islamic extremists is that \nThey are Muslims first then English, French, Indian etc...\nThey can kill and tell lies so long their religion benefits from it...\nThey do not believe in equal rights and have no respect for others...\nThey will take the maximum of benefits from any system and will not themselve contribute in the system...behaving like parasites.\nThey will never take part in rallyes to condemn their own people despite they have committed the most outrageous acts..\nbut they will take part in rallyes and shout death threats to the cartoonists\n\nBritish land is  fertile for Islamic fundementalism?\nBritish people enjoy freedom...\nTheir free society also does not discriminate against foreign nationals\nIt is because of Briton's respect for these freedom that muslims make abuse and do what they do..\nRemember that Britons do not enjoy the same fredom in Islamic countries.\nYou will not even be allowed to carry a bible into their country and over here they they can bark like mad dogs when not allowed to wear veils in schools!\n I think that they've got to be given a lesson..\nWe all got to speak the same language as them..\nIf they bark, we must bark and if they bite we must bite too..\nIf we continue to remain silent and not allow our voice to be heard, then it will be silenced for good. Our elders have fought many wars and have sacrificed their lives for us to enjoy the freedom we do now. Do you want to hand it over to these extremists in a plate as gift??
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We are a group of ex-Muslims who have seen the face of the evil and have risen to warn the world. No matter how painful the truth may be, only truth can set us free. Why this much denial? Why so much obstinacy? How many more innocent lives should be lost before YOU open your eyes? A nuclear disaster is upon us. This will happen. It is not a question of "if" but "when". Oblivious of that, the world is digging its head deeper in the sand.\n\nWe urge the Muslims to leave Islam. Stop with excuses, justifications and rationalizations. Stop dividing mankind into "us" vs. "them" and Muslims vs. Kafirs. We are One people, One mankind! Muhammad was not a messenger of God. It is time that we end this insanity and face the truth. The terrorists take their moral support and the validation for their actions from you. Your very adherence to their cult of death is a nod of approval for their crimes against humanity.\n\nWe also urge the non-Muslims to stop being politically correct lest they hurt the sensitivities of the Muslims. To Hell with their sensitivities! Let us save their lives, and the lives of millions of innocent people.\n\nMillions, if not billions of lives will be lost if we do nothing. Time is running out! "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." Do something! Send this message to everyone in your address book and ask them to do the same. Defeat Islam and stop terrorism. This is your world, save it.
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Most of the muslim I know very much ashamed for what the people who "claim" themselves muslim and doing that kind of terror.But strangely somehow they don't dare to condemn the terrorist acts openly in public,since they know these radical militant is growing fastly could be anywhere and anybody.\nAccusing a religion as the head of terrorist conduct are unjustly. But sometimes it's quite true,since I think the percentage of people thinking the way of the radical muslim is growing and growing beyond our imagination since of the globalism,human right issue,the freedom of religion and the weakness of faith of the non-muslim people.
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Unfortunately it seems that a lot of these terrorists are "home grown" - i.e. born in the UK of (mainly) Muslim parents.\n\nWhile our present government has created a chaotic immigration system which means we really have no clear idea how many people are coming into this country and what they intend to do when they get here, there is also a large degree of brainwashing of young Muslims going on in the mosques and faith schools which is creating a generation of terrorists within our own society. This is not helped by the government's pathetic policy of political correctness and appeasement towards various extremist Muslim preachers and leaders who seem to be able to encourage hatred against the very society that they live in without any real fear of arrest or removal from the UK.\n\nIt seems unbelievable that we grant political asylum to some of these extremists because they state that their views mean they would be subjected to brutal arrest if they were deported back to their own countries - yet we do nothing about them here except allow them to encourage terrorists (usually while they claim welfare at the same time). Limiting immigration into this country is NOT racist, selfish or isolationist - it is COMMON SENSE... something which seems to be in very short supply in and around Downing Street.\n\nUntil the government stops these people using our systems of immigration and welfare against ourselves then the potential consequences for the UK remain dire.
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How would you know that someone is a Muslim just by looking unless you happened to see them praying?\n\nIf you want to know what I think of Muslims, I have no opinion of the ordinary Muslim. They are people just like the rest of us. It's the fanatical ones who kill in the name of Islam that bother me.
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They're not going to because they condone terrorism and everything it stands for. They cry foul should someone outside ths islamic faith should so much as cast a critical eye on their religion, then come here, sponge off the government claim every benefit known to man, and then protest should someone print cartoons of the so called "prophet" mohammed. muslims cry foul that they are not being treated fairly, but don't cry foul whenever terrorists from the muslim community kill hundreds to thousands of innocent civillians.
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I think it is a shame that people of ignorance judge other people because of a horrible act. People should not judge Muslims by the people who committed the horrible crimes of September 11th.
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Its like saying all men are rapists.  All men want to dominate and hurt women.  All women are whores.  You just can't generalise like that.\n\nAnd actually not all terrorists are Islamic, there are more than enough terrorists destroying lives in Africa and South America and Ireland to mention a few places.  And these are predominantly christian lands.\n\nDon't be so prejudiced against people, because there are some nice Moslem people out there who are horrified by what the extremists are doing in the name of their faith.  It must be scary times for those who are peaceful to see themselves grouped together with the mass murderers and are subjected to force of ill-will from non-moslems who feel it is their right to punish moslems.\n\nIf a priest abuses a boy, we don't lynch mob all priests, we understand that he is a bad seed.  Similarly we aught not to categorise all moslems as the same.
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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.
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I have grown up amongst Muslims my entire life and they are one of the friendliest and most charming people around the world.\n\nWhen the news first broke, yes, Muslims were portrayed over the media as violent. Over the course of time, you will notice that the media has actually become more careful in their labels. Now, they are 'Muslim separatist groups' or 'Muslim terrorist groups' - groups perpetuating violence under the guise of religion. Sometimes, they do not even have the word Muslim in the front. However, the damage has already been done, and now, everyone just bandies 'Muslims are bad' about.\n\nYou have to also consider the Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition, did they not justify violence by whitewashing it with religion during its 'heyday'? To better understand what a particular religion is all about, find out about it. Don't just listen to the news. Why label a people by the actions of a few bad apples? Would you like it if someone else did the same thing to you?\n\nFood for thought; Catholic priests and altar boys. If one was not unfamiliar with the religion, what do you think the impression would be? That Catholicism breeds perverts, perhaps?
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Hate is the reason they exist.  Fear of anything different is the reason they exist.  They kill for nothing more than the sake of killing.  In reality, they believe in no god, have no compassion and no conscience.  As long as people can be swayed by hate and fear, terrorists will exist.  When I die, I intend to go haunt Osama Bin Laden and drive him so mad that he can't function!  I am sorry for the loss of your school mate.
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Your intent is not understood.  People think that you are inciting hatred towards Muslims.  But all you have done was shown a video where a little Muslim girl is doing the talking herself.  \n\nI think you have a genuine concern that a huge percentage of our world's population is being raised with hate ideology.  It is reason to be concerned.  \n\nI think you want Muslims to become better people, as you would want all to become better people.  However your phraseology is extreme sometimes.  You say things like "idiots" and that can be taken as hatred of Muslims.  I understand your frustration, and I appreciate your desire to reform the world towards peace, but I think if I were you, I'd use kinder language sometimes so that people do not misread your intent.
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They want what any type of extermist would want.  i.e. they are extreme in their beliefs.  When a person becomes extreme their judgment is clouded.  And when a persons judgement is clouded they start having delusions such as "everyone should convert" etc.\n\nBut remember extremists of any nature are dangerous, including extremist chirstians, extremist jews etc.  The press just don't give them as much coverage because it's "fashionable" to analyse muslims at the moment.\n\nI'm a muslim & proud of it.  But I would never try to force my beliefs on anyone because one of the basic principles of Islam is "their is no compulsion in religion" and this is stated clearly in the Quran.
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because of how they are portrayed in the media! for example when there was the riots in Denmark for that cartoon it was only a small minority of Muslims but the media made it look like it was what all Muslims are like!....but i must ask this I'm a christian and i want to ask you if there was a cartoon drawing of Jesus in the paper do you think some Christian's would riot like the Muslims? i have no personal problems with Muslims but i do think that its more of an excuse to riot if you follow Muslim...I'm not saying your like that.\n\nactually hums2oldies most muslim extremist belive its the only way to get to heaven by killing so no christians were not the same!
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because some people (not all) want to spread hate about Islam. you know they have a goal in their heads.\ngood links:\n\nwww.askmuslim.com\n\nhttp://www.beconvinced.com/en/main.php