Bitko said:
What you call it other than anti-muslim, when muslims are being detained and tortured for no reason, solely based on suspicion.
If that is what happens then I certainly oppose that and the overwhelming majority of Americans do too.
Bitko said:
Christianitytoday.com a very prominent Christian website; just go there and type "muslim" or "islam" under search, and see how many aticles come up.
OK, I typed in muslim, and here are the first few that came up:
- The Muslim Next Door - Women
The Muslim Next Door How to better understand and befriend women who follow Allah.
- Muslim Phobic No More - Christianity Today Magazine
Muslim Phobic No More Verbal attacks on Islam sabotage evangelism.
- Jesus Through Muslim Eyes - Books & Culture - ChristianityTodayLibrary
Jesus Through Muslim Eyes Sayings and stories Gabriel Said Reynolds In the crash course in Islam offered by the media over the last six months, many Christians will have heard it said that Muslims regard Jesus as a great prophet
- Evangelicals Advise on Muslim Dialogue - Christianity Today Magazine
Evangelicals Advise on Muslim Dialogue But hastily called meeting fails to include Franklin Graham, Falwell, and Robertson.
- Muslim Class Prayer - Christianity Today Magazine
Muslim Class Prayer Parents allege kids 'forced' to simulate Islam.
Seems mostly positive to me.
Bitko said:
There are hundreds of universities in US teaching Islam as a social science course, just give me names of five schools where the professors are muslims or the books in the curriculum are written by muslims.
How does this relate to the "hatred against muslims and islam" argument you were trying to make in your previous post?
I mean just because a muslim isn't teaching the course or a muslim didn't write the book doesn't mean it's purposely and blatantly trying to spread hatred.
I mean my English teacher in high-school wasn't English or American, but he still knew how to teach English, why wouldn't a non-muslim be able to teach
about islam?
Bitko said:
I have not been to any church, but have spoken to many church goers, and number of times been asked many strange questions about my faith. And when I asked them where they heard such thing they replied, "at the chruch."
What kind of questions?
Where they misguided or just curious?
Like I said, I don't deny that it isn't a possibility, but I doubt it's widespread.
Bitko said:
"Crusade," the word slipped out of Mr. Bush, Freudian slip?
Crusade to most westerners does NOT mean a fight againts muslims, instead it means more something like "a prolonged and difficult fight".
As such it's not a Freudian slip, but a poorly chosen word because Bush didn't think quickly enough when he was saying it that it could easily be misinterpreted by muslims.
Certainly it is a mistake that most people could have made under the same circumstances.
Bitko said:
What you call attacking Iraq, not anti-muslim?
Well Saddam Hussain was enforcing non-secularism quite effectively, so if America had an anti-muslim agenda, the proper action would have been NOT to attack Iraq.
Bitko said:
Under international law, under no circustance, can a country invade another, until and unless its own security is in question. So how was Iraq a threat to the US? WMD is pure BS we all know it.
Yes no question that WMD claim turned out to me a huge mistake (not exclusively made by the US), however I don't see how this has anything to do with an anti-muslim sentiment.
If the US really was trying to wage a war against Muslims, wouldn't you think it would have mosks and religious leaders as targets instead of terrorists?
And wouldn't Iran have been a better target than Iraq?
I would just like to clarify that I in no way hate or discriminate (at least not consciously) against people because of their religious beliefs.
I do however, hate terrorists.