Muslims and terrorism

[Dr. Mantis Toboggan]

 

Will the Islamic religion ever move from the 10th century to the 21st?

T_O_B

 

This hip and with it christian has your answer

[StPaulHusker]

Remember when people went crazy because the leaders of the EU didn't come to America to march in protest of the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000+ innocent people?

[ZRod]

Remember when people went crazy because the leaders of the EU didn't come to America to march in protest of the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000+ innocent people?

Jacque Chirac came...

[carlfense]

 

Remember when people went crazy because the leaders of the EU didn't come to America to march in protest of the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000+ innocent people?

Jacque Chirac came...

 

But then Republicans in the House of Representatives had to take back our freedom fries after they wouldn't support our invasion of Iraq.

[T_O_Bull]

"laissez faire Charlie" be damned "se venger Charlie."

T_O_B

[ZRod]

 

 

Remember when people went crazy because the leaders of the EU didn't come to America to march in protest of the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000+ innocent people?

 

Jacque Chirac came...

But then Republicans in the House of Representatives had to take back our freedom fries after they wouldn't support our invasion of Iraq.

So they got one right, still doesn't make up for the Maginot line.

[carlfense]

Though we do enjoy a readership among Muslims inside and outside of the United States, some of whom have not hesitated to express displeasure or worse at our coverage of stories such as the Israel-Palestine conflict, none has seen the Charlie Hebdo cartoons as worth sending an angry email or even an annoyed tweet, much less a threat of violence.

 

Our coverage of Islamophobia has brought a very different response. Articles decrying anti-Muslim bigotry and attacks on mosques have been met with dozens of threats on email and social media.

 

The most common states a desire that jihadist militants will murder the offending writer: a recent email hoped that Muslims will "behead you one day" so that "we will never have to read your trash again." Some directly threaten violence themselves, or imply it with statements such as "May you rot in hell."

 

Others express a desire to murder all Muslims — one simply read "I agree with maher Kill them all" — also often implying the emailed journalist is themselves Muslim. One pledge to attack Vox writers begins, "f#*k you and any c**t who believes in allah."

 

As is often the case, the strongest threats have been reserved for women. One writer received a message arguing that someone should "put a gun up your ass" to make her understand terrorism.

 

Ironically, these threats are typically couched in arguments that Muslims are inherently irrational and violent. Further, threats made with the explicit intention of silencing journalists from discussing Islamophobia are positioned as necessary "defenses" of free speech against the threat of Islam. The people making the threats seem unaware that they are themselves seeking to curb the very free speech they pretend to uphold.

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/14/7541095/charlie-hebdo-muslims-threats

[Abdullah the Butcher]

 

Though we do enjoy a readership among Muslims inside and outside of the United States, some of whom have not hesitated to express displeasure or worse at our coverage of stories such as the Israel-Palestine conflict, none has seen the Charlie Hebdo cartoons as worth sending an angry email or even an annoyed tweet, much less a threat of violence.Our coverage of Islamophobia has brought a very different response. Articles decrying anti-Muslim bigotry and attacks on mosques have been met with dozens of threats on email and social media.The most common states a desire that jihadist militants will murder the offending writer: a recent email hoped that Muslims will "behead you one day" so that "we will never have to read your trash again." Some directly threaten violence themselves, or imply it with statements such as "May you rot in hell."Others express a desire to murder all Muslims — one simply read "I agree with maher Kill them all" — also often implying the emailed journalist is themselves Muslim. One pledge to attack Vox writers begins, "f#*k you and any c**t who believes in allah."As is often the case, the strongest threats have been reserved for women. One writer received a message arguing that someone should "put a gun up your ass" to make her understand terrorism.Ironically, these threats are typically couched in arguments that Muslims are inherently irrational and violent. Further, threats made with the explicit intention of silencing journalists from discussing Islamophobia are positioned as necessary "defenses" of free speech against the threat of Islam. The people making the threats seem unaware that they are themselves seeking to curb the very free speech they pretend to uphold.

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/14/7541095/charlie-hebdo-muslims-threats

So we shouldn't hate Muslims?

[carlfense]

So we shouldn't hate Muslims?

That's up to you.

[Abdullah the Butcher]

 

So we shouldn't hate Muslims?

That's up to you.

Is the article trying to say angry white people are worse than Muslim terrorists?

[carlfense]

Is the article trying to say angry white people are worse than Muslim terrorists?

You didn't read it?

[VectorVictor]

 

Is the article trying to say angry white people are worse than Muslim terrorists?

You didn't read it?

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

 

Though we do enjoy a readership among Muslims inside and outside of the United States, some of whom have not hesitated to express displeasure or worse at our coverage of stories such as the Israel-Palestine conflict, none has seen the Charlie Hebdo cartoons as worth sending an angry email or even an annoyed tweet, much less a threat of violence.Our coverage of Islamophobia has brought a very different response. Articles decrying anti-Muslim bigotry and attacks on mosques have been met with dozens of threats on email and social media.The most common states a desire that jihadist militants will murder the offending writer: a recent email hoped that Muslims will "behead you one day" so that "we will never have to read your trash again." Some directly threaten violence themselves, or imply it with statements such as "May you rot in hell."Others express a desire to murder all Muslims — one simply read "I agree with maher Kill them all" — also often implying the emailed journalist is themselves Muslim. One pledge to attack Vox writers begins, "f#*k you and any c**t who believes in allah."As is often the case, the strongest threats have been reserved for women. One writer received a message arguing that someone should "put a gun up your ass" to make her understand terrorism.Ironically, these threats are typically couched in arguments that Muslims are inherently irrational and violent. Further, threats made with the explicit intention of silencing journalists from discussing Islamophobia are positioned as necessary "defenses" of free speech against the threat of Islam. The people making the threats seem unaware that they are themselves seeking to curb the very free speech they pretend to uphold.

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/14/7541095/charlie-hebdo-muslims-threats

So we shouldn't hate Muslims?

 

I'm baffled by your question. Do you normally hate complete groups of people that would encompass literally billions of people around the world?

[Abdullah the Butcher]

No I'm being intentionally daft today, I'm barely staying awake at work. Two red bulls hasn't solved the issue.

[Abdullah the Butcher]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/world/middleeast/new-charlie-hebdo-muhammad-cartoon-stirs-muslim-anger-in-mideast.html?_r=0&referrer=

 

 

Apparently Vox just isn't that influential around the world. Plenty of threats still for papers in the middle east and Europe.