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Originally Posted by Skybird
I did.
Its just that the message disturbs the party of the self-deceiving infantiles, and so it will not only get ignored, but actively demonised and declared as racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and probably several other -isms and -phobias as well whose names I just temporarily do not have on mind. Summarise it all as "If you believe critics of Islam, then this is a sign of your own mental disease". Because that is what in the end it all means: be against mainstream glossing over and nice-talking of Islam, and you are an extremist yourself, and mentally deranged. |
It is (as most things are) a matter of measure. Ie one could well condemn the actions of Muslim people or their groups, or their views and statements, but projecting those points across the entire population (in my opinion) is incorrect, unless it is directly proven than the population in question (in it's entirety) actively aids such policies.
Why do I bring this up? I bring this up because while I condemn the actions of NAZIs in Germany, I do not believe that Germans are by nature evil savages who would murder my kin (ethnic Russians) due to our ethnicity.
Hence I call for separating the acts of the radicals (even though should such radicals have control of the state apparatus at the time) and the generalised population. Presumption of innocence unless proven to be guilty may be in part responsible for this sentiment.
This is my personal and private view however, you may well disagree with it.