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Originally Posted by blueash

Muslims Helped Foil Terror Plot In Canada; Imam Tipped Officials To Plans To Derail Train

Every major faith has its radicals and its reasonables. Even within faiths the sects kill each other in the name of whatever superbeing. Recall the wars in Ireland with Catholics and Protestants, bombs and shootouts. Recall that every day, completely lost now to our news, the Shiites and the Sunis bomb each other in the cities of the mess we left in Iraq. In India there are too frequent "terrorist" attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...dents_in_India
which involve many different non-Western faiths attacking each other.

My point is that modern terrorism is not as you seem to see it, Islam attacking the Christian west. Terrorism is old, the sword or the cannon has been used for centuries to attack infidels by members of the true faith. The hands of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists etc are all bloodstained by the acts of both sanctioned slaughter (think Crusades or the Inquisition) and minor sects and individuals. Perhaps this does nothing to make you less afraid of anyone you see wearing a beard but the overwhelming number of Muslims are people of peace. The recent arrest in Canada of 2 persons who were possibly planning a train bombing resulted from the local Imam alerting authorities.

Yes!! Hatred is too easily started by generalizations. Muslim terrorists compare with the general Muslim population the way that the Westboro Baptist Church compares with the general Christian population.