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Solid Sonic posted...

adjl posted...

In some ways, you could make that argument. You should elaborate on that analogy, because you might actually have a pretty insightful point. That, or you're just noting the superficial similarity and not actually thinking about it at all, but I'll still invite you to build on it.

Well I thought it'd be pretty obvious. To say "all lives matter" when the phrase "black lives matter" is used, it's saying there isn't anything special there, you're just making a mountain out of a molehill for the sake of conflict. The point of the #BLM movement is to point out that racist police are handling situations with black suspects more aggressively and violently than they might against a non-black suspect, which does have data to back it up, depending on which police department you look at.

Likewise, declaring all faiths as unruly when the argument that Islamic radicals are the ones who act out violently is just trying to diminish the inordinate amount of Islamic-based aggression towards civilians by claiming other faiths are just as volatile, which at this time is not the case.

That's not what's being said, though. "All religions have violent stuff in them" is usually a response to people suggesting that Islam is somehow inherently more violent than other religions, which in turn is usually being used to promote some sort of regulatory measure that will affect all Muslims, or to justify hatred and fear. It is meant to be dismissive, because the "Islam is inherently violent" position is one that should be dismissed. Just as with every other faith, no matter what violent ideals are lurking in the book, the majority of its practitioners practice it peacefully.

Radical Islam is indeed associated with a large number of terrorist attacks in today's world, but solving that entails focusing on the radical part, not the Islam part. Focusing on the Islam part will result in measures far too non-specific to help, and will hurt a great many innocent people.

OhhhJa posted...

I agree that this bears a large portion of the blame but not nearly all of it. If the region were dominated by Christianity I believe we'd see vastly different results. Mainly, bc there's no verse telling you to murder non believers (or the more derogatory term, infidel).

You'd probably see more stoning than beheading, but that's about the only difference. These people want to be violent, and they'll latch on to any excuse they can find. They don't need a specific verse to encourage them.

OhhhJa posted...

Not to mention, we're finding now that many Muslims that grew up in developed countries are orchestrating these attacks as well

We live in a world where propaganda's extremely easy to distribute across country lines. A Muslim doesn't have to actually live in an unstable Middle Eastern region to be convinced that the Western world is out to get them. That's actually really easy to do these days, courtesy of the rise in Islamophobic sentiments. Fear and hatred are the opposite of how you want to approach an ideological war, because that's not how you win over hearts and minds.
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