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Originally Posted by driveway
I did not mean to offend you and I obviously had no idea your fiancee is muslim. I understand why you would disagree. I'll admit I am not set on my own position. It's something I feel emotionally and I'm trying to think it through rationally, but It's obviously a complicated issue.
I'd like to respond to your post. I respect you as a poster, what you say is always well thought out and well presented. but I need to sleep on it and think through my own ideas on the subject and how best to frame them.
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Thanks, and I will also add that, again, I have no issue
at all with the call for more condemnation of these acts from moderate Muslims and prominent Islamic figures. In the West, pretty much every Muslim association with any size and clout already does, but we don't seem to see it as often in the Middle-East (this could be for a whole lot of reasons, one being moderates tend to not speak up, and once they do, they usually cease being moderates).
My fiancee being Muslim (while true) was only used as an example. I find, for myself, and probably for most others, it's better to think of things like this when able to put a face you know to it. It's easy to want to condemn a faceless Islam and all that belong to it in the initial visceral response to terrible acts like this (I feel the same way sometimes, I'm certainly no huge supporter of religion), as it is for most things, but harder to do when you're connected to something personally. It's why I brought the point up originally. There are a lot of people around the world that use the word Muslim to represent one single homogeneous and generalized group. "Muslims hate our way of life!" and I can't help but think it's the same way the insurgents and terrorists think of us. "Zionists and and Imperialists hate our way of life!"