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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an Iranian American Muslim living in the US for the past 35 years, this is the first time I'm personally feeling hate against all Muslims in general. I definitely didn't feel like this after 9/11. I think it has to do with the fact that 2 potential Presidential candidates are spewing hate against Muslims and the fact that one of them may be president next year. This is terrifying to me. Somehow the way that they are verbalizing this type of hate on national TV day in day out will give it credibility and give the impression that it's OK to be a racist...because hey our leaders are doing it. 
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What are you doing to calm the fears?  Are you denouncing not only the terrorist acts of radical Muslims but also the Muslim teachings they use to motivate and rally their members?[/quote]

How do you calm irrational fears? How can someone be responsible for another person's fears when those fears are disproportionate to any threat?

Instead I wonder why aren't we as a culture raising braver citizens? We are such cowards. [/quote]
You can not calm the the fear toward radical Muslims.  However, you can calm the unwarranted irrational fear toward non-radical Muslims.  The key is to create a clear philosophical separation between the two.  Currently the fear stems from the notion that radical Muslims and non-radical Muslims share a singular belief.  The only thing separating the two is one group is willing to act out their belief and the other is not.  It needs to be made clear that their beliefs are separate as well.[/quote]

Well clearly that's what liberal Americans fervently want to believe.  The problem is that there isn't really a clear distinction that you wish to believe there is.   You'll almost never hear a "peaceful" Muslim person offer a clear cut, unequivocal denunciation of radical Islamic acts of violence.  There will ALWAYS be rationalizations, excuses, and justifications for it.[/quote]

I have to agree.  As an ex-Catholic who was sick of the hypocrisy, I can mirror your response.  too many excuses, too much "hope" in reforming the church

You can't ever erase the fact that children were ALLOWED to be raped.

all excuses
all bullshit

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But those were extreme Catholics who were not following the teachings of the Catholic church.[/quote]

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