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[quote=Anonymous]I am worried about ladies in hijabs and sikhs, who both have a visible sign of their religion and are thus easy targets for ignorant, violent people.  For myself and my husband, who are both middle eastern, look middle eastern (or maybe hispanic) and have obviously middle eastern names, things have not been bad.  We actually traveled by plane the day after the Paris attacks with no issues, and nothing has really ever happened to us, so I assume the case is similar for muslims who do not wear hijab or have some other obvious sign of piety.

Contrast this to our experience in our country of origin, where as a woman without hijab I am gawked at, leered at, and harassed, where if we walked into a store and people realized we were Christian they would sometimes ignore us or even play the Koran at full blast, where certain positions/jobs were closed off to us, where our work colleagues openly celebrated the death of Americans on September 11, where someone could murder us or burn down our churches with absolutely no consequence, etc.  Not that our society is perfect (look at how police treat black people), but we seem to eventually make progress, slowly, very slowly.  In our birth country, resolving these issues is absolutely the farthest thing from anybody's mind.  Something heinous will happen, such as people burning down or looting a church, and there will be a little bit of angst about it, and then absolutely nothing will happen.  Even if the perpetrators are caught, they often walk away without being prosecuted.

I can't say that I have any warm feelings about Islam as a religion.  All my life, starting way before September 11 2001, I have seen only the worst aspects of it and how it seems to encourage the most evil instincts in otherwise regular people.  And then you have people who are not regular, who have personality disorders of some sort, who take things to a whole new level as we see in ISIS.  I have many Muslim friends who are perfectly nice, ordinary people, but privately I believe that this is despite their religion.  I know a lot of messed up Christians, or Christians who believe in total crazy nonsense, but it is just different with Islam.  I don't think it is necessarily an "evil" religion or something like that, but that there is some sort of structural problem with the religion where people take things to this totally insane extreme and there is no check on it until it is too late.

At least in America, we can HAVE an outcry.  People will protest, and people can change their minds and say "you know, that is f***ed up how the police shot those people."  At least educated people recognize that it is absolutely unacceptable to blame all Muslims for the actions of a few.  [/quote]

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