What are your thoughts about muslims?

@SW-User It has to be a part of the problem, but there's also a systemic issue with the way a large proportion of Muslims present [i]themselves.[/i] Blasphemy laws, anti-gay laws, "public modesty" laws, etcetera all chip away at Westerners' views of Muslims, and unfortunately, that can only change with an authentic cultural shift.

@BlueVeins indeed

@SW-User In the US which has probably seen the worst of it as far as western nations go you are still statistically more likely to die from a tv falling on your head then from a terrorist attack.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Terrorism is the tip of the iceberg; they are a shadow of the true threat that mainstream Islam poses.

@BlueVeins you stll look for reds under the bed too? Got to keep the sheeple terrified.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow What's that supposed to mean?

@BlueVeins It means your fear mongering is gilding the lily.

I agree there, it was mainstream media propaganda that brainwashes these white supremacists which are alarmingly populating in Australia one of the Christchurch shooters was a right wing radical extremist from Australia. He obviously believed all of Rupert Murdoch’s rubbish that’s presented on the TV screens. All this fear mongering fed to us by the media is causing all this divide and conquer.@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow You should try telling that to the millions of gay people, women, and apostates who have to live under authoritarian Islamic law every day. It's easy to blow off these kinds of issues from a bastion of freedom like the one we live in, but not everyone has that priviledge.

@BlueVeins More propaganda cliches. The ones installing and backrolling the worst degenerates are the "free world" And the odds of such groups are not much better in your mythical bastions of freedom.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Modern, western democracies do tend to back some pretty evil groups -- a practice I've always rallied against -- but I wouldn't refer to them as the "worst degenerates" in a region that contains Syria, Iran, Hamas, ISIS, and Al-Quaeda. The US and its allies supports shitty political entities because they're fighting other shitty political entities in a way that benefits NATO security interests (and some economic interests). And while that's a pretty dubious way to operate, ethically speaking, it hardly compares to the shit Islamic nations have done to each other and themselves.

Anyway, why don't you just pick up a book and compare the government systems of, for example, the USA and Turkey, or really whatever majority-Muslim country and whatever secular democracy you want. While some Islamic nations are obviously better than others, secular democracies perform better and have more defensible policies on a fairly consistant basis.

@BlueVeins my god man you desperately need a modern US history course. You really drank the cool aid. Nearly everything you said is fiction.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow You're completely full of shit. You know nothing about global politics; if you did, you'd either be able to make a rational argument or concede.