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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]With freedom comes responsibility, as the saying goes. People focus on their rights, maybe once in a while, we should focus on our duties to mankind. Hate begets Hate. I have never understood the principle of "right to offend". Why would you like to offend someone? What's the usefulness of this right? What was the value added to the world of the distasteful cartoons? They didn't make the world a better place,  they contributed to the marginalization and mockery of minorities and contributed to adding more hate to a broken world. Just because you have a right to say something,  doesn't mean you should!  [/quote]

With that said,[b] shouldn't the person who the hatred is directed at just ignore the ignorance of the name caller? [/b]  Of course just because they can be offensive, does not mean that they should be.  Unfortunately, it always has been and most likely always will be.   When I was younger I was picked on and made fun of.  I was offended and it hurt terribly.  However, there came a point where I realized that they are making fun of me because of some issue that they have going on in their life.  It has nothing to do with me.  They have a right to their opinion and to voice it.  I have the option of not letting it affect me.  More than likely, they are the ones that are miserable and I decided not to let them drag me down with them.  Hate does not always beget hate.  Unfortunately it does when people are uneducated and are easy pray for those who do hate...no matter what their background is.

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Well the majority ignores them,   one in a while you have a.lunatic who goes bersek,  and the Paris attacks were not just about the cartoons.  There are underlying issues that brought us to where we are today and this can not be analyzed in a vacuum, outside of the context and surrounding climate [/quote]

So, are you saying that what happened in Paris is justified?  I am not trying to be an ass, I just want to make sure I understand before posting a comment.[/quote]

It is not justified, but it can be explained~[/quote]

So all people who practice the radical form of Islam are lunatics, is this what you are saying?  [/quote]

No. Most of them have political grievances. They are using the wrong tools to solve legitimate issues and problems that exist in their societies[/quote]

So you think these are stable, intelligent, individuals who just happen to have political grievances?  Out of curiosity, what are these political grievances you say they have?  What in the world can make it okay to kill people because they don't agree with the same God that you do?  [/quote]

I have already discussed this many times in many posts that are easily searchable. (And your narrative is false, they don't just kill people because they worship a different God, this is a bit simplistic!) Here's one:

-In the Muslim community, we have uneducated, self-taught followers who believe they are qualified to give religious verdicts and that they can make someone else's life permissible, without ever actually having studied with a single scholar. Googling fatwas and quoting random incidents from the Seerah is enough these days to become a faqih.

-The terms jihad (struggle) and Shaheed ( martyr) have been hijacked by extremist movements who might be motivated by legitimate concerns, but express that motivation in un-Islamic manners, and cause destruction & bloodshed in the name of religion whilst overlooking their own responsibilities towards their communities.

-Young overzealous youth, angered by the transgressions of Western powers, are often swayed by fancy rhetoric and enticing slogans into entering a military conflict that eventually ends up harming the very people they claim to protect

-The Muslim world lacks strong leaders and strong institutions. They are mostly led by dictators who oppress their own people and are in bed with the western world.

- You have a country like Saudi Arabia that is exporting more extremism than oil. Political identity around grievances are then used and exploited in regions with huge crisis of identity problems.

- Lots of extremists that inspire people through the web, we need to counter that narrative

- Attacks like the ones in Paris will provoke the rise of nationalist policies and parties in the West, and this is what extremists want, so they can draw a further wedge and recruit more people. Their main goal is to divide communities so they can polarize and radicalize.

For anyone interested, I highly recommend this talk by Dr.Yasir Qadhi about the causes and roots of Muslim Fundamentalism .In this interview, he gets into the mindset of radical "Islamic" movements and unveils the psychological framework that leads to terrorism. He academically analyses the three primary combinations that must exist before radicalism is resorted to

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gGYVsbRvDQ[/youtube][/quote]

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