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Originally Posted by Aliantha
In fact, I would comment further by saying that I have not met one single Muslim person, man or woman, who has made me feel in any way frightened or threatened.
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Yeah, it's not when they're onsies and twosies that there's a problem. It's when they form mobs or take over governments.
It's true that all the Muslim people I know personally are indeed peaceful. But one way even peaceful Muslims contribute to this problem is when they are reluctant to criticise or distance themselves from their more violent and autocratic coreligionists; this silence is widely taken as tacit endorsement, and leads to bogus accusations of religious prejudice against those who oppose them.
BigV: Nobody said "convert or die" was as central to Islam as the Shahada. But the fact that
anybody is saying "convert or die" (and don't kid yourself, far too many are;
one is too many) is a supremely serious and dangerous problem.
Funny you should call that a "Tin Man", when saying "it's not the Shahada" is a fairly transparent straw man itself.