I Have Legitimate Concerns About Islam And That's Not Bigotry
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room101 · 51-55, M
@ Northwest. I’m not holding up Ms Gabriel as a paragon of virtue and, what difference does it make if this video clip has been circulated once or 10,000 times on this or any other internet forum.
Yes, thousands of Germans attended Hitlers rallies and yes, he was democratically elected. By your logic does that mean that, should Trump become your next president, every American is a racist, isolationist, hypocritical moron?
Yes, the Japanese had a very martial view of life in general. That’s why a tiny island nation was able to conquer the giant that is China. Not to mention their other military achievements, regardless of how distasteful those achievements are to us. But does that mean that, as a nation, they were any less peaceful than any other nation?
The point that Ms Gabriel was making (because you’ve obviously missed it) is that THE PEACEFUL, MODERATE MAJORITY IS IRRELEVANT. Which is what the Muslim woman opened her question with when she talked about how many billions of practicing Muslims there are in the world. Conveniently skipping the bit that, in percentage terms, the radicals make up a population the size of America’s. To me, what was even more important was Ms Gabriel’s observation that there was only one Muslim in the room.
Which leads me on to the question of how do we defeat an ideology. But first let me ask a question. Would you say that the ingrained and institutionalised racism in America, during the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s (and before, and since) was an ideology? I would. Here’s another question. How did Martin Luther King deal with that ideology? He dealt with it, and to a great extent defeated it, by making ordinary, peaceful, moderate, WHITE Americans look at themselves and see what they were doing.
To me that’s what Ms Gabriel is doing. That’s what organisations like Quilliam Foundation are doing. That’s what needs to be done.
If you have any other solutions to the problem that’s plaguing our planet and has been plaguing our planet since the rise to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, I would very much like to hear them.
Yes, thousands of Germans attended Hitlers rallies and yes, he was democratically elected. By your logic does that mean that, should Trump become your next president, every American is a racist, isolationist, hypocritical moron?
Yes, the Japanese had a very martial view of life in general. That’s why a tiny island nation was able to conquer the giant that is China. Not to mention their other military achievements, regardless of how distasteful those achievements are to us. But does that mean that, as a nation, they were any less peaceful than any other nation?
The point that Ms Gabriel was making (because you’ve obviously missed it) is that THE PEACEFUL, MODERATE MAJORITY IS IRRELEVANT. Which is what the Muslim woman opened her question with when she talked about how many billions of practicing Muslims there are in the world. Conveniently skipping the bit that, in percentage terms, the radicals make up a population the size of America’s. To me, what was even more important was Ms Gabriel’s observation that there was only one Muslim in the room.
Which leads me on to the question of how do we defeat an ideology. But first let me ask a question. Would you say that the ingrained and institutionalised racism in America, during the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s (and before, and since) was an ideology? I would. Here’s another question. How did Martin Luther King deal with that ideology? He dealt with it, and to a great extent defeated it, by making ordinary, peaceful, moderate, WHITE Americans look at themselves and see what they were doing.
To me that’s what Ms Gabriel is doing. That’s what organisations like Quilliam Foundation are doing. That’s what needs to be done.
If you have any other solutions to the problem that’s plaguing our planet and has been plaguing our planet since the rise to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, I would very much like to hear them.