My two cents
For Pete's sake, STOP backing down whenever this sort of thing occurs. This kind of terrorist attack DOES represent Islam, the same way KKK represents Christianity (or whatever). Yes, there are "tolerant" and "rational thinking" religious people, as well as there are radical fundamentalists that religious and they feel backed and represented by the writings of their religions just as any other person. I f we keep backing off everytime a terrorist attack happens, those radical muslims will reckon it IS ok for them to blow up as many buildings as they can and innocent people will still die. Claiming the ISIS is part of Islam and recognizing they must be held accountable for those attacks is not being a islamophobe, it's acknowledging that there is a problem and it HAS to be tackled down. Islam is a religion, as is Christianity and Buddhism, every religion has intolerant hateful preachers, we know it, but if we're just looking away from the fact the recent attacks ARE linked to Islam, I tell you they'll perpetuate. We need to get muslims to accept that their religion has reached a point where some of their followers simply don't care anymore, they'll nuke about everyone who dare not to share their beliefs and they know they have nothing to lose but their lives, which they believe is worthless so long they get to meet Allah and "the virgins". Muslims do need to revision Islam thus it'll be adaptable into nowadays' moral, NOT otherwise. It's Islam that should be more tolerant and respectful towards people, not people that should be more tolerant and respectful towards Islam. After all, Islam IS only a religion. Is sweeping Islam off the planet a solution? No. Is it teaching its practicers they must deal with cultural plurality and accept not everyone will bow down to Allah given a certain time of the day, but instead others simply share different values? YES!
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