Archie Gemmill Goal
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It's unrealistic to achieve it, but not stupid. The reason I wrote it is because someone here pretended that a one time event of 30,000 Muslims from the world over was a major event against Islamic extremism.
By way of comparison, for every Muslim that rallied againt Islamic extremism in a one time event, over 60 travelled to Mecca on a yearly event of neo-paganism. If that doesn't demonstrate their priorities are a bit off, what would?
The said rally was a wordwide event. Why do you only count European Muslims when Muslims from all over the world attended? By that standard we would be talking about over 2 million people. Yes, that would be significant and it would be a major achivement. If it were done yearly, as Woodstock is (right?), then it would work wonders over a decade or so.
I already addressed that, but since you did show some interest, here I go again. The main danger of Islamic terror isn't the death toll, but the fact every attack drives Muslims further away from Muslims. This isn't due to bigotry, but because the attacks are in the name of Islam, justified by Islamic scriptures and often done by people otherwise not seen as particularily problematic. They decide to read the Koran a bit more, and a little later they drive trucks in festuve crowds. Non-Muslims examine the teachings and find that the justifications are indeed there, clear as they can be. Islamic response to the attacks ranges from "don't blame Islam" to "yes, but Israel..." to "Muslims grievances", it never addresses the teachings, history, context or anything else that explains the attack. In this light more and more peoplw grow suspicious of Muslims. How many welcome the attacks, but wouldn't carry them out themselves? How many are cheering the dead kaffir, and are planning to emulate the attackers?
It's not bigotry, and it's certainly not racism. Muslims have shaken the confidence in them, shaken it badly, and should now work to restore that confidence, for the good of us all. They would benefit the most from it, incidentally, since incidents od what you might call bigotry and islamophobia would fall and might eventually even disappear altogether - irrespective of terrorist attacks. The terrorists lose in this scenario even if the attacks continue unabated. A major, consistent and severe Muslim rejection of the attackers can defeat the terrorists. Nothing else can. I therefore call for a major, consistent and severe pan-Islamic rejection of Islamuc terrorism. What we see now is a minor, inconsistent and mild, before you ask.
I ask again, how on Earth is this controversial??
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Yet again you jump from terrorists to Muslims and then proclaim its not bigotry or racism. If you cant see thats controversial you are beyond hope.
Lets take your points though.
1. If something is unrealistic to achieve its stupid to suggest it as a solution. Its dishonest and suggests you are not in the least bit interested in actually changing your mind. Demanding others do something unrealistic isnt useful. In fact its exactly the same behaviour you dismissed as unreasonable when Muslims do it in respect to their grievances.
2. The event was a global event in name but it was held in a place. I dont think its reasonable to expect a poor African or Pakistani muslim to fly to London to protest something. Woodstock was a global event too so you would have to scale their population up to 5bn or whatever to then be fair. That would only improve the significance of the Muslim protest. Im talking about sixties woodstock by the way. That one time significant cultural event.
3. Assuming you mean non muslims are driven away from muslims? If we accept this as an argument then we agree that protests will have no effect on actual terrorism? Its purely for show?
First off thats incredible bigotry. Requiring someone to take action to counter your own prejudices based on their religion. Guilty until proven innocent
Secondly the very bigotry you think is ok is driving muslims and non muslims apart just as much if not more. If thats really the issue then you should be vehemently opposed to right wing propaganda against muslims and to the constant stream of crap poured out against muslims. You should be castigating white guys for not gathering in huge anti islamophobia rallies and fighting the deplorables at every step. But you arent.
When you say Muslims have shaken the confidence in islam at least youve given up the pretense that you are criticising the religion and not the people. Thats why you get accused of bigotry. Because you consistently assign responsibility to people who have done nothing wrong for acts carried out by others.
Eta Thirdly theres no reason to believe it will work because bigots and racists will simply ignore dismiss or reinterpret the protests. Like they have done so far.
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