Saturday, July 23, 2005
Good Muslims
It would be good if the putative non-violent Muslims voiced their disapproval for terrorist tactics. Various people keep saying "not all Muslims are like this" but we need to hear them say it. Where and who are they? It's hard to keep trusting that the guy walking down the street near us is more likely to be a good guy than a terrorist bully with nothing other than say-so as reassurance. I mean, you've got to know the bullies have a heck of a lot of funding and coordinators. Someone is paying the money to the dead bullies' families. And the hot shot bully in London after 9/11 who held a rally about how wonderful the planes' work had been wasn't a suicide bully, he was the leader of a mosque. "Good Muslims" need to speak up - now and loud.

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 11:28 AM, July 25, 2005:
I agree that the world needs to realize that these are the actions of radicals and not of all Muslims, but I don't know that other Muslims need to speak out against them in order to placate the world. Did we ask all "good white people" to speak up after the Oklahoma bombings?

-Samantha
 

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Blogger jau — at 5:02 PM, August 08, 2005:
I take your point but doesn't it seem an obviously helpful addition to a solution? The "white" world isn't very familiar with the Muslim world, after all, so even with the best of intentions, there's an "other" quality about each other - and an accompanying wariness - which could be eased a bit with a little extra thinking. It's tough to take it entirely on faith that most Muslims don't agree with this methodology since we've seen many pictures of them cheering as the WTC fell down, and no pictures of them even looking sad let alone saying they disagree.

After Oklahoma, many "white people" did speak up - vocal about disagreeing with policies but also thinking that bombing and killing is a hateful way to show one's opinion.
 

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