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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Do you know any Muslims? This is like saying all African Americans are followers of Black Panthers kind of exhortations to violence or all Christians saying that we should bomb abortion clinics.
I went to library school (University of Denver Class of 1984) with a kind decent but very religious librarian from the University of Mosul. The Iran-Iraq War did somewhat revolutionize him judging from the letters sent to me after he want back to Iraq. His friends though-- a group of University of Denver Graduate Students-- were from different Arab/Muslim countries and EACH and every of these people were individuals with their own take on things. My Iraqi librarian friend was also the brother of some kind of military leader in the Iraq Army so sibling rivalry and input also came into this heavily.
I had a person one year in back of me while at the University of Minnesota Law School who became the first Muslim elected to Congress-- Keith Ellison. His views were ambitious but nothing out of the ordinary according to his U of MN Class of 1990 Classmates. I was Class of 1989. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Ellison I doubt if reading much of his work that you can tell that he is a Muslim.
ISIL is run by very violent extremists and these brutal thugs are hardly reflective of an ordinary Muslim in any country. |
I do. And most of them are terrified to speak up, even though they live here now. Those that do are largely professionals, including physicians. Those that don't will speak frankly in private but not public. One was a personal physician to the Shah of Iran. I also have friends from Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc.
I'm still trying to figure out how you took my comments as including all of any culture, race, or religion. I was speaking out against appeasement and political correctness - not throwing all Muslims under the bus.