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PeonForHer -> RE: Duty of "Peaceful" Muslims (12/8/2015 2:31:06 PM)
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The reality is that this isn't just a religion thing.
That's it in a nutshell - it's *never* just a religion thing - not with Christians, nor with Muslims. It flabbergasts me constantly that so many people seem to assume that everything about what this or that group of Muslims does is entirely determined by their religion. Why would it be? It isn't for people who are Christian.
Thus, for instance, the bloke who runs my corner shop has no doubt had a relatively comfortable life. I doubt he's ever been in a gun fight and if he suffered economic hardship in the past, he probably isn't now. He knows which side his bread's buttered. Why would he want to upset all that and join with a set of Muslims who he's never met, probably *will* never meet; who don't live in England and probably don't live in the country of his forebears and, indeed, are actively killing other Muslims (and more than people of any other religion), quite possibly in that country? What on earth in common do they have, apart from being Muslim?
To put it simply: If I'd had the life of Mr Ali at the corner shop, I'd have one kind of outlook. If I'd lived the life of, say, a Syrian who'd seen his wife and kids killed by sarin gas, I'd most likely have an entirely different outlook. If I'd been cracked and furious enough, I might have even ended up in Daesh's welcoming hands and become a killer myself.
It's an utter nonsense to talk of Muslims being one monolithic group. There are 1.5 billion of them, from all kinds of different countries and cultures, with different languages, different social and economic backgrounds and living under entirely different political systems. It's also inane to talk of each and every Muslim's life being entirely determined by their religion. That assumption flies in the face of everything that the entire wealth of social studies have ever produced.
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