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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]Swedish-american here. I think it is crossing the line to display these images publicly. I am not muslim--but I find such disregard for their religion and culture highly offensive. The French people are completely tone deaf and arrogant wrt to their treatment of minorities in their countries. They are hiding behind the cloak of "free press" and it is outrageous. And yes, I'm aware that Scandinavian countries are as bad on this issue if not worse.[/quote]
I completely agree.  My brother is living in Paris right now and I am scared to death for him.  He has a very obvious Muslim name and there is currently a lot of backlash because of the Charlie Hebdo thing.  Yesterday, in France a pregnant Muslim woman was  attacked  by men who pulled her hijab off asking her to take that *** off and beat her up while she was screaming that she was pregnant, she lost the baby. Mosques were also vandalized  along with  Arab businesses and a car belonging to a middle eastern family was shot at. [b]Unless we start having honest conversations about the underlying issues, this will never get resolved[/b].[/quote]

Okay, I'm listening. Shall we start by saying a not insignificant number of people believe Islam is not a religion of peace?

France is not a very tolerant country, we all know that. But Muslima seems to believe that if she just points out often enough that it was those Muslims who kill people, and not these people, that the problem will be solved.

I don't think that Islam is inherently violent. Certainly Christianity has plenty of violence and aggression in its history. But that time is passed. For Islam, that time is not past, it is now.[/quote]

I can understand how people would think that.  But trust me,  these conversations are currently happening in the Muslim community. We have so many people who are so full of anger towards the rest of humanity, towards their fellow Muslim brothers and sisters, that it appears they have lost their basic humanity . At the same time,  we also have to talk about the impact of our foreign policy, years of occupation, wars that we start with a lot of collateral damage in those regions, giving birth to new extremists. Yes 12 people died yesterday, but how many hundreds of thousands have we killed in the name of democracy? We are very good at sending drones and fighter jets, but not very good at sending alternative brands of ideologies that create the same extremism we claim to fight. You can not bomb people to peace, you can kill Bin Laden, but guess what,  10 Bin Laden will rise the next day. Unless we change the ideologies,  it will all be more of the same![/quote]

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