Discussion for article #231969
The trouble is that people are portraying rare nutjob attacks into actions that all muslims are responsible for, and they are doing this out of political motivations.
Hawkish rightwing groups love to hype any attack by a Muslim kook yet they crawl under the rock of denial when a McVeigh or a Jerald Miller makes an attack.
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It took me a while and several searches for more on this interview to find out what “don’t own Google” meant here. I thought of owning google as having an equity stake. He means, “have google on their device.” I don’t think of that as “owning Google.”
I actually did look for these condemnations after the attack–I really hoped to find some-- and found quite a few. I was heartened by that. I also learned to how the Grand Mosque in Paris was a sanctuary for Jews in WWII. I certainly didn’t know that before.
And how cool would it to be named Aslan?
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They’re not held to a DIFFERENT standard. They’re held to one. Chopping off people’s heads, flying planes into buildings, killing two thousand people, execution style, in Nigeria, blowing up buses in Russia, attacking markets in China, bombing marathons, killing journalists…that shit is wrong. It’s simple. STOP CHOPPING OFF PEOPLE’S HEADS!!!
My fellow liberals seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to criticism of Islam: “Ooh, christian conservatives don’t like it, so I must defend it.” No, you don’t. Anymore than you need to defend Christianity or Buddhism or Hinduism.
Religions in general are stupid…but Islam…Jesus fucking christ. Stop killing people!
While we’re discussing collective responsibility, I look forward to Christians everywhere being asked repeatedly to condemn child rape.
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“If you don’t hear it, you’re not listening,”
If you don’t hear it, you’re deliberately ignoring it because islamaphobia is politically expedient to your self-serving agenda.
FIFY
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This is either a poorly crafted troll post, or you miss the entire point in every which way possible.
Either that or you’re Bill Maher (and also missing the entire point in every which way possible).
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Please find the Muslim leaders who condemn the Muslims who have come out in celebration of the attacks. There are quite a number celebrating, in many places, including even Muslim school kids in France who refused to honor a moment of silence in commemoration. When Muslim leadership say “We condemn these attacks” but then fails to condemn people in their congregations who celebrate them, it’s no different than our GOP statesmen who say “I condemn the KKK” but then happily speak before organizations whose membership is largely KKK, and don’t complain when their constituents say blatantly hateful things. If you are a leader, you are responsible for your followers.
He’s not wrong but I’m kind of done with this guy too.
The problem in it’s core is religious extremists (of many, if not most, faiths) generally hold a rigid view of the world and seek to exert control over every aspect of life, from cradle to grave.
I have no doubt should the Donahues or Falwells or Santoriums be operating in theocracies/oligarchies or some other
type of regime they would be at least as repressive as say…the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
But I saw Mr. Aslan dance around when specific question were put to him about …say…women…driving and Saudi Arabia.
wasn’t impressed.
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thank you for that opinion…i was unclear by what he meant as well. the phrase, even with your interpretation, still doesn’t make sense. i have a google app on my phone, but i wouldn’t consider myself in ownership of google. sounds like a contrived soundbite, more than an intellectual thing to say. but then again…this was MTP.
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I understand many people would lack the capacity to understand that you can both condemn terrorism, but also understand why it happens. being Muslim in France, particularly, can’t be easy. Telling people you can’t feel the way you do, if they aren’t hurting anyone, isn’t the way you would want to be treated. If young Muslims in France feel disenfranchised and don’t want to celebrate a country that makes them feel inferior at almost every opportunity…hopefully there are enough people who have the cognitive ability to understand the nuances of multicultural societies. The evidence seems to point to the contrary, but there is still hope.