Why do people think Muslims don't condemn terror attacks?

Exactly. I find it frustrating hearing this repetitive excuse, especially when all i see is muslims, including myself speaking against it. Though, even when you do speak against it. (Like i have on here many times) i still get backlash for even bringing it up. It's tiring and just ignorant.

Oh and I would just like to add that I am fed up of Muslims feeling as though they owe people an apology for having faith. They were not the individual with a bomb strapped to them. They were not the ones flying planes into buildings. This week many Muslims were affected by the bombing also, they could have died, lost people they knew - Manchester is their home too and if the arse hole who bullied me in a post yesterday reads this, YES I would rather live next door to a Muslim family than a racist moron. That is all 😊

For good or bad, Islam is a decentralized religion. There is not an authority like the Pope that represents all of then.

So the attitude of a local Muslim community depends a lot from the ideas they get from a local imam. So certain local Muslim communities with more open-minded imams have made statements against terrorism.

What I see in general is that the number of imams whose message to his community is 'remember you are Muslims in the first place, and you are different from the decadent western world' is rising. Even in the small city where I live I have noticed that the number of girls wearing the scarf is much bigger now since a new imam came. Nothing worrying, of course, but a sign of what the trend is.

So one can be lucky and have a reasonable imam in his community, or a more radical one filling heads with crap. And there does not seem to be a way to join those communities with not radical imams to make marches or activities showing that Islam as a whole is against Islamic terrorism. Or some scholar, artist or respected person of any kind for Muslims worldwide speaking out loud and clear.

One can see condemning declarstions, true. Also thousands of twitter and FB profiles with Jihadi content, despite the fact that a couple of years ago more than 10.000 were deleted. There is a trend towards radicalism that cannot be ignored.

One can never know who you are dealing with. All dogs (just an analogy) are not violent, but when you cannot be sure how the dog you have in front of you will react, better refrain from touching it. If you want to call dogphobia, ok. I call it self-preservation.

Basically scared people just look for someone to blame for their fear. They choose someone different (race, religion etc) because to blame someone of the same race/religion/country might mean they themselves are somehow to blame.
The nazis blamed the jews (as did a lot of others). White Americans blame black people or Mexicans or Asians. We have a politician here who is on the anti-Muslim bandwagon using identical language to when she was on the anti-Asian bandwagon 20 years ago.
You summed it up un your first paragraph. Some people don't want to. It's easier to blame others than face reality and make an effort.

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1103936/saudi-arabia

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39392442

I find it very ignorant that people tar others with the same brush. I have spoken out recently as a Mancunian how I feel about recent events and apparently I am "promoting terrorism". Despite the backlash I will repeat here my thoughts and opinions.. that Isis are not Muslim, they are cowards who hide behind the name of a religion to do unspeakable and barbaric things - like the KKK.
Every Muslim I have met, has been quiet and reserved yet respectful and open. It was a Muslim consultant who stayed behind two hours after his shift to help me deliver my daughter and save my life. It is a Muslim doctor I see every time I go to the surgery. It is a Muslim woman who kindly explained to me why her hijab is important to her. And with all this the difference I and others have compared to some is the fact that we educate ourselves and don't listen to crap that we read in the papers.

[quote]Why do people think Muslims don't condemn terror attacks?[/quote]

It's a myth, propagated by 1) xenophobes, 2) ignorant people, and 3) those who rely on a single source for information.

Even pre-ISIS, we Americans, showed how ignorant we are, when nearly half of us opposed a candidate/President (Obama), because rumors spread that he was Muslim (our current President helped spread those rumors).

Even a well-intended mainstream Republican candidate, like John McMcain, in response to an older woman who asked why we should put a Muslim in the White House, instead of saying "his religion does not matter", his response was 'No ma'am, I know him, it's not true, he's a good man'.

[c=#7700B2]Very good point. "Muslims don't condemn terror attacks" has just become one of these things that people repeat without actually looking into.[/c]

A lot of Muslims do. But there are others still who blame terror attacks on things like colonization, taking things out of context, wars in the Middle East, etc. To justify the attacks. You can't condemn an attack but justify it at the same time. One girl on here has done it multiple times.

To believe that all Muslims are alike is like believing all Christians are alike, or all Buddhists, or all Hindus.

You can't pigeonhole people that way.

probably people don't care that much because Islam is such a backwards and f-ed up religion. so what if a few non-terrorist Muslims who follow the Koran but not the orders to hate and kill speak against terrorism? they are still "Muslims" who follow a backwards and f-ed up religion. which makes them two things - foolish and not to be trusted.

Because it conflicts with the narrative they have in their head. People will always selectively process information, and part of that selection process is omitting information that doesn't fit with preconceived notions

if the death of one innocent is so wrong to them how in the world could muslims have done 9/11

Ignorance. It's an excuse to hate and dismiss an entire group of people, rather sort through to some warped individuals.

So you can find countless examples that can fill a Google search. Is the per capita amount of condemnation countless?