With all the recent issues with ISIS in the Middle East the
issue is “caution or discrimination”, and as everybody knows there are always
two sides to every story. So let’s start with discrimination, obviously not
every Muslim is part of ISIS or Al Qaida, not all Muslims are going to blow up
planes and bomb buildings. So it is wrong of us to look at a Muslim and discriminate
against him or her. With all the Muslims in the world, many of them are very
peaceful people, and then there are those who are jihadists and terrorists. But
which one of them is the true Muslim? Because only one of those groups is interpreting
the Koran correctly, and experts and professors lean more towards the jihadists
being more accurate in the interpretation of the Koran. However that does not
mean that they are 100% correct, only more accurate in their readings and studies
than the peaceful Muslim. So to be real for a second, if you see a Muslim at an
airport getting ready to board the flight with you, what are you going to
think? I quite frankly would be a little nervous, of course not to the point
where I want to get off the airplane or anything extreme like that. But I would
probably have some sketchy feelings depending on the circumstances, and I don’t
consider that discrimination, I call it being cautious. You have to remember 9/11,
I’m sure there were passengers on those planes who had sketchy feelings too,
even though Islam wasn’t as big of an issue with America then as it is now. But
I wouldn’t consider that wrong, it would be like if a homeless person beat you
up and robbed you one day, you’re probably going to be cautious around homeless
people, even though they aren’t all bad people. There is a fine line between
discrimination and caution.
Good, interesting to read. A simple explanation of the argument but effective. If all Muslims were to act with great conviction upon the true meaning of their faith we might be in trouble but thankfully there are many who dormant in their religious affections.
ReplyDeleteSo what is your synopsis over discrimination and caution? Is it helpful to be cautious or should we go all in in discriminating to keep us safe. Both options provide safety but which road should be taken: one where we don't do anything and "wait" for attacks or one where we wipe out this dormant threat forever?
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