"Why do we not see muslims in Europe marching on the streets protesting against IS and standing up against terrorism?" I'm sure there are a few, but the answer I imagine most important: People are tribal.
here is a much simpler explaination : for the same reason you didn't march in the streets to protest against Anders Breivik killing 110 teens in Norway in 2011 in the name of Christ and the "preservation of the purity of the white race". You thought the idea that you should be associated with him by the mere fact that you're christian like him ( or white) is outlandish. He is not you and doesn't represent you or most christians.
Or for the same reason you didn't walk in the streets to protest against some Vatican pedophile priests raping children. The fact that they were christians and priests doesn't mean that all christians ( or priests) are de-facto pedophiles . Christians don't feel the need to publicly claim they're not pedophiles everytime a new pedophile priest story is revealed in the news, right ? And there is no reason you should.
Well, it's the same with muslims. The majority of them feel that asking why they didn't "march in the streets" or publicly proclaim they are not terrorists as completely outlandish and deeply insulting. They don't feel they should publicly dissociate with terrorists or Daesh, for the simple reason that they don't feel associated with them in the first place !
I'm sure that has some truth to it. And indeed many religious people, including Mohammedans, should read more of their own religious texts.
I'm not going to claim "Most muslims aren't real muslim", but rather like many other religious people there is always hordes who aren't very devout.
If someone is claiming to be of your persuasion in some fundamental sense, I think there is very strong reason to try and disavow those people. Especially when what they are doing is condoned in the religious texts you yourself supposedly hold dear. I didn't protest Breivik because I don't have a book that says "it is good to shoot certain people" and certainly at the time I didn't believe in much anything he believed in. If it happened today I would probably speak up against it however, because I believe there are less insane and more productive ways of advancing some of those ideas he spoke about. (Being white is not an ideology.)
I'm not entirely caught up on the issue of Muslim response to terrorist attacks but from what I hear there might have been as many protests from Mohammedans against Islamophobia as against Mohammedans blowing themselves up, following Mohammedans blowing themselves up in the West.
I don't really care what the majority of Muslims think though. They are irrelevant. https://en.wikipedia...terrorism#Polls http://www.thereligi...nion-polls.aspx
Edited by Keizo, 22 May 2016 - 11:41 AM.