A GROUP OF MUSLIMS HAVE COME OUT, OR REVIVED A
CAMPAIGN TO MAKE A STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE ISLAMIC EXTREMISM
ABROAD, WHILE ALSO MENTIONING THAT THEY ARE PEACE-LOVING
MUSLIMS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS EXTREMISM.
THIS WAS BACK IN
SEPTEMBER, AND NOW IT HAS BEEN
REVIVED.
IT IS, "#NOTINMYNAME."
ISIS DO NOT REPRESENT ISLAM OR ANY OTHER MUSLIM.
BECAUSE THEY'RE KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE.
BECAUSE YOU ARE UNJUST.
WE MUST UNITE TOGETHER, AND TRY TO STOP THIS GROUP FROM
DAMAGING ISLAM AND DAMAGING MUSLIMS.
NOT IN MY NAME.
BECAUSE YOUR LEADER IS A LIAR.
BECAUSE WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS INHUMANE.
BECAUSE YOU ABUSE HEARTS AND MINDS.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO COMPASSION.
BECAUSE MY RELIGION PROMOTES TOLERANCE FOR WOMEN, AND
YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR WOMEN.
NOT IN MY NAME.
THAT WAS A CAMPAIGN WAS STARTED BY THE ACTIVE CHANGE
FOUNDATION, AND AGAIN, THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT STARTED IN
SEPTEMBER AND NOW IT HAS BEEN REVIVED BECAUSE OF THE ATTACKS
IN PARIS.
I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO DO CAMPAIGNS LIKE
THIS, BECAUSE, UNFORTUNATELY THE WAY THE MEDIA COVERS MUSLIMS IN
GENERAL TENDS TO DEMONIZE ALL OF THEM, AND THAT HAS LED TO HATE
CRIMES AND BIGOTRY TOWARDS COMPLETELY MODERATES,
PEACE-LOVING MUSLIMS THAT HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING WRONG.
HOPEFULLY CAMPAIGNS LIKE THIS HUMANIZE THEM, BUT ALSO
GOES TOWARDS THOSE WHO CLAIM THAT ALL MUSLIMS SHOULD
CONDEMN WHAT THE EXTREMISTS ARE DOING.
THEY DO CONDEMN WHAT THE EXTREMISTS ARE DOING.
THEY DONíT APPLAUD IT OR WARRANT IT.
EVERY MUSLIM GROUP IN THE WEST CONDEMNS THESE ATTACKS.
THEY DO IT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ATTACKS.
FOXNEWS, I DON'T KNOW
IF THEY DONíT GET THE STATEMENTS OR IF THEY EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO GET THEM
GO, WHY DON'T THEY CONDEMN THEM?
THEY DID, THEY JUST PUT OUT A STATEMENT.
ALL OF THE MUSLIM
COUNTRIES CONDEMN THESE ATTACKS.
EVEN IRAN CONDEMNED THESE
ATTACKS ñ IT'S NOT FAIR TO SAY
EVEN IRAN, THEY HATE ISIS.
THEY ARE CONDEMNING IT.
I THINK THAT THERE IS REALLY SOMETHING ELSE AT PLAY, AND I
COULD BE WRONG ABOUT THIS BUT THIS IS JUST MY SPECULATION.
I
DON'T THINK THAT THEY NECESSARILY WANT THE INDIVIDUALS
TO CONDEMN THE TERRORISTS, OF COURSE THEY'RE GOING TO CONDEMN
THE TERRORISTS AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS ARE
PEACE-LOVING PEOPLE.
I THINK WHAT THEY WANT IS FOR THEM TO CONDEMN
THEIR OWN RELIGION.
HERE IS THE REALITY ABOUT RELIGIOUS
DOCTRINE.
YOU TAKE CHRISTIANITY, YOU TAKE MUSLIM RELIGION, AND
YOU JUST LOOK SPECIFICALLY AT
THEIR DOCTRINE, AND THEIR LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF THEIR
DOCTRINE, THEY ARE BOTH VIOLENT.
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE WAY
INDIVIDUALS INTERPRET THAT DOCTRINE, AND HOW THEY ACTUALLY
UTILIZE IT.
IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHICH
RELIGION HAS CARRIED OUT THE
MOST ACTS OF VIOLENCE RECENTLY, IT IS NO QUESTION MUSLIMS.
MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS.
BUT HERE'S WHAT YOU ARE NOT DOING
ANY FAVORS TO.
WHEN YOU DISENFRANCHISE PEACE-LOVING
MUSLIMS, WHO SHOULD BE JOINING OUR FIGHT AGAINST EXTREMISM, YOU
MAKE THE FIGHT AGAINST EXTREMISM
A LOT MORE DIFFICULT.
THEY'RE NOT JUST THEORETICALLY JOINING THE FIGHT.
KURDS ARE MUSLIMS, THEY ARE FIGHTING AGAINST ISIS EVERY DAY
IN IRAQ AND SYRIA.
OTHER MUSLIMS IN SYRIA ARE FIGHTING AGAINST
ISIS.
IRAQ IS MUSLIM, THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT IS FIGHTING AGAINST
ISIS.
SO TO SAY THAT THEY ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH WHEN YOU ARE
SITTING ON YOUR ASS, AND THEYíRE PICKING UP A GUN AND BRAVELY
FIGHTING AGAINST ISIS TROOPS, A LITTLE HYPOCRITICAL.
ON THIS
ISSUE, I'M ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT TORN ON IT, BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL
LIKE EVERY MUSLIM HAS TO
APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT ISIS DID.
THERE WAS THIS WHOLE REPORT ON
TV THE OTHER DAY, THEY KEPT ASKING THIS GUY FROM A MUSLIM
COMMUNITY CENTER IN FRANCE, WHY DON'T YOU CONDEMN IT?
HE'S LIKE,
I DID CONDEMN IT.
BUT THEY ARE LIKE, YOUR MOSQUE, WHY DID YOU
CATCH THESE GUYS?
I'VE NEVER MET THESE GUYS, HOW WAS I SUPPOSED
TO CATCH THEM?
NOT ALL MUSLIMS
KNOW EACH OTHER.
BUT APOLOGIZE FOR IT.
HE'S LIKE, APOLOGIZE FOR
SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO?
THIS IS
GETTING REALLY WEIRD.
SO I'M A TINY BIT BOTHERED THAT IT SEEMS
LIKE THEY ARE MASS APOLOGIZING
FOR THINGS THEY DID NOT DO.
IT WOULD BE WEIRD FOR ANY OTHER ñ
OKAY FINE, PEOPLE HATE IT WHEN YOU SAY DYLANN ROOF, THAT MAKES
THEIR HEADS EXPLODE, SO LET'S USE A DIFFERENT EXAMPLE, WHEN
THAT WEIRDO CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST KILLED DOCTOR
TILLER, DID EVERY CHRISTIAN OR EVERY PRO-LIFE PERSON IN THE
COUNTRY HAVE TO COME OUT AND SAY, I DIDN'T DO IT, I'M SORRY I
DIDN'T CATCH HIM IN MY CHURCH?
THE GUY WHO ATTACKED THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN KANSAS,
DID EVERY CHRISTIAN IN THE COUNTRY HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT GUY?
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT GUY?
UNFORTUNATELY, THE WAY EVERYTHING IS BEING COVERED IT
DEMONIZES ALL MUSLIMS.
IT MIGHT BE INTENTIONAL, LIKE IT IS IN
THE CASE OF FOX NEWS, WITH THEIR DEMONIZING REFUGEES WHO ARE
LITERALLY TRYING TO ESCAPE THIS KIND OF TERRORISM IN THEIR OWN
COUNTRIES.
BUT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EITHER SUBCONSCIOUSLY OR
UNINTENTIONALLY BY OTHER
OUTLETS.
I DON'T BLAME THEM FOR COMING FORWARD AND DOING A
CAMPAIGN LIKE THIS.
I AGREE WITH YOU THAT IT IS A LITTLE UNFAIR
TO ASK ALL MUSLIMS TO GET OUT AND CONDEMN WHAT IS HAPPENING,
BUT AT THE SAME TIME I THINK THAT IT DOES AT LEAST FIGHT BACK
SOMEWHAT AGAINST THIS IDEA THAT MUSLIMS WHO FOLLOW THIS TYPE OF
DOCTRINE ARE ALL EVIL, AND THEY
ARE ALL AGAINST US.
DON'T GET ME WRONG, I LOVE THEM FOR DOING WHATEVER THEY CAN
TO FIGHT AGAINST THAT.
THEY ARE BRAVE, THEY ARE COMING OUT AND
SAYING ISIS DOES NOT SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF, AND THEY'RE MAKING
FUN OF THE LEADERS OF ISIS IN SOME OF THE VIDEO.
UNDERSTAND
THIS, PARTS OF THE BIBLE ARE SOAKED IN BLOOD, PARTS SO
WONDERFUL.
THE KORAN IS THE
SAME.
THERE ARE AWFUL PARTS OF THE KORAN THAT ARE VIOLENT, AND
MUSLIMS WILL SAY THAT'S NOT TRUE.
I CAN SHOW YOU, I'VE READ
THE QURAN.
THAT IS PARTLY WHY I LEFT.
THAT EXISTS, IF THEY ARE
IN OUR WAY LET'S KILL THEM.
THERE ARE A TON OF EXCUSES MADE
BY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE OF ALL STRIPES.
ON THE OTHER HAND, ARE
THERE GOOD PARTS OF THE KORAN TOO?
OF COURSE.
"WHOEVER KILLS AN
INNOCENT PERSON, IT IS AS THOUGH HE HAS KILLED ALL OF MANKIND."
SO, IF YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON THE
GOOD PARTS OF THE KORAN, YOU COULD FOCUS ON THAT PART AND SAY
THAT THE QURAN IS A HUNDRED PERCENT AGAINST KILLING
INNOCENTS, AND COMMITTING ACTS OF TERRORISM IS LIKE KILLING ALL OF
MANKIND IF YOU KILL JUST ONE INNOCENT.
BUT THE REALITY IS,
THE BOOKS ARE CONTRADICTORY.
BOTH THE QURAN AND THE BIBLE
HAVE GOOD PARTS AND TERRIBLE
PARTS.
WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING, OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF
THEIR HEARTS, THEY ARE SAYING LET'S FOCUS ON THE GOOD PARTS.
EVERYBODY HANDLED IT DIFFERENTLY.
I LOOKED AT IT AND
WENT, THE BOOKS ARE CONTRADICTORY, I'M LEAVING, THEY
DON'T MAKE SENSE.
THEY SAY, LET'S FOCUS ON THE GOOD PARTS.
GREAT, LET'S DO THAT.
BUT WHEN YOU JUST SAY, THE BIBLE IS
WILDLY CONTRADICTORY AND IT HAS VIOLENT PARTS THAT WERE MAYBE
EXERCISED IN THE PAST, BUT NO, NO, NO, CHRISTIANS NEVER DO THAT,
YOU CAN'T BLAME THEM, NO WAY, BUT THE QURAN IS EITHER ALL BAD
ñ WHICH IS NOT FACTUALLY TRUE ñ OR YEAH, IT'S CONTRADICTORY LIKE
THE BIBLE, BUT THE MUSLIMS ARE IRREDEEMABLE BECAUSE THEY
ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE QURAN, WHEREAS THE CHRISTIANS DON'T
BELIEVE THE BIBLE.
WHAT A FUNNY
ARGUMENT, BY THE WAY.
I JUST DON'T BELIEVE THAT EVERY RELIGIOUS PERSON SITS DOWN
AND READS, PAGE FOR PAGE, WHAT THEIR RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE TELLS THEM
THEY NEED TO DO.
NONE OF THEM DO.
THAT IS MY BIGGEST
ISSUE.
I SEE THESE KIDS IN THIS VIDEO, AND I LOOK AT THEM AND I
THINK OF MY FRIENDS.
I THINK OF THESE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO JUST
WANT TO LIVE THEIR LIVES, AND THEY DON'T WANT TO GET CAUGHT UP
IN ALL THIS TERRIBLE, DISGUSTING VIOLENCE.
AND UNFORTUNATELY THEY
WERE BORN INTO A FAMILY THAT BELIEVES ONE RELIGION OR
ANOTHER, AND BY DEFAULT THEY
FOLLOW THAT RELIGION.
FOLLOW THAT RELIGION, I SAY THAT
LOOSELY.
I WAS BORN INTO A CHRISTIAN FAMILY, DID I READ THE
BIBLE AND LEARN EVERYTHING THATíS IN THE BIBLE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL?
EVEN
THOUGH I WENT FROM AGE 5 TO 19?
NO, THEY DID NOT TEACH US EVERYTHING
THAT THE BIBLE CONTAINS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE FOLLOW THE RELIGION
WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY WHAT THEIR RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE
SAYS.
SO PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND WHENEVER YOU LOOK AT A
SPECIFIC MUSLIM PERSON AND YOU THINK THEY MIGHT BE BAD BECAUSE
OF WHAT IS HAPPENING ABROAD WITH THIS RIDICULOUS MUSLIM
TERRORISM.
THERE IS A REASON WHY THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING ITíS A MUSLIM
IDEOLOGY AND IT CAN'T BE FIXED, AND THE PROBLEM WITH MUSLIMS IS
THAT THEY ALL BELIEVE IT, THERE'S A REASON WHY THEY ARE
SAYING THAT.
THE REALITY IS, MUSLIMS, LIKE CHRISTIANS, THE
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THEM DO NOT READ THEIR HOLY TEXT.
THEY
DON'T KNOW THE GOOD PARTS OR THE BAD PARTS, THEY JUST KNOW
WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TAUGHT.
IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT AGAINST THE
CULTURAL PROPAGANDA THAT TEACHES THEM THE BAD PARTS OF THE KORAN,
I'M A THOUSAND PERCENT WITH YOU.
IN TURKEY THERE ARE SCHOOLS THAT
HAVE THE KIDS, INSTEAD OF LEARNING REAL STUFF, THEY TEACH
THEM THE QURAN IN ARABIC.
THE KIDS DON'T EVEN SPEAK ARABIC,
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEYíRE SAYING.
THEY MEMORIZE THE QURAN IN
ARABIC.
WHAT A WASTE, FREE THOSE KIDS AND HAVE THEM LEARN
SOMETHING REAL.
THE REASON PEOPLE BLAME ISLAM AND ITS
IDEOLOGY IN MASS IS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO GET TO A SMART
SOLUTION.
THEY WANT YOU TO HAVE BAD FEELINGS AGAINST MUSLIMS AND
SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE ACTION WITH THOSE FEELINGS.
IT IS NOT CONVENIENT, IT IS
NOT EASY TO HATE PEOPLE
LIKE THE ONES IN THIS VIDEO.
AFTER SEEING THE GIRLS AND GUYS IN THIS VIDEO, IT IS NOT
EASY TO HATE THEM.
IT IS EASY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT I SEE ON THE
INTERNET TO HATE THEM, AND THINK THAT THEY ARE MAKING EXCUSES.
THEY BELIEVE WHAT THEY BELIEVE, THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT
INTERPRETATION OF THEIR RELIGION, AND YOU SEE IT ACROSS
ALL SORTS OF RELIGION, INCLUDING
CHRISTIANITY.
I GREW UP CHRISTIAN, I DID NOT GROW UP
BELIEVING THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE TERRIBLE AND THAT THEY ARE GOING
TO HELL.
ALL I LEARNED WAS THE
GOOD PARTS OF THE BIBLE.
HOW I NEED TO BE A FORGIVING PERSON.
THOSE ARE THE THINGS I LEARNED.
YOU THINK I SAT DOWN AND LEARNED
ABOUT THINGS IN DEUTERONOMY?
IF SOMEONE READS THE BIBLE PAGE BY
PAGE THEY WOULD THINK, WHOEVER BELIEVES THIS STUFF WOULD BE EVIL
OR VIOLENT.
THAT IS NOT THE
CASE.
I JUST WANT TO HAVE A SANE CONVERSATION ABOUT THESE ISSUES.
UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN THESE ATTACKS HAPPEN, PEOPLE GO TO
EXTREME ENDS OF THE SPECTRUM.
CONSIDER THE FACT THAT WE NEED
COALITIONS AND DIPLOMACY, WE NEED TO WORK WITH PEOPLE IN
ORDER TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
IF YOU DEMONIZE
PEOPLE WHO ARE PEACE-LOVING, YOU ARE MAKING THE PROBLEM WORSE.
THERE ARE BAD PARTS OF CULTURES OF SOME OF THE
COUNTRIES THAT ISLAM IS IN.
SOME OF THEM, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE,
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION, SOME OF THE CHRISTIANS IN THOSE
AREAS, SOME OF THE MUSLIMS IN
THOSE AREAS PRACTICE IT.
IF YOU SAY MORE MUSLIMS PRACTICE IT, I'M
WITH YOU, HOW CAN WE FIGHT THAT?
THAT IS A SPECIFIC PROBLEM WE
CAN FIGHT TOGETHER.
TERRORISM IS A SPECIFIC PROBLEM THAT WE CAN
FIGHT TOGETHER.
WHEN YOU SAY I'M GOING TO GO AFTER MUSLIMS IN
GENERAL BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE IN
THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAM, NO, NO, NO.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
I AGREE, I HATE THE RELIGIOUS
DOCTRINE.
I HATE IT, BUT IT'S THERE AND PEOPLE BELIEVE IN IT.
DO YOU GET RID OF IT AND HOW DO YOU GET RID OF IT?
DO YOU START
PICKING AND CHOOSING WHICH RELIGIONS ARE ACCEPTABLE?
IT IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE.
I DON'T BELIEVE IN ANY RELIGIOUS
IDEOLOGY WHATSOEVER, BUT IF SOMEONE WANTS TO PRACTICE THEIR
RELIGION IN A PEACEFUL WAY, I AM NOT GOING TO GET INVOLVED,
ESPECIALLY IN A
COUNTRY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN FAVOR OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM,
AND TELL THEM NO, WE'RE GETTING RID OF THAT BECAUSE IT IS
INHERENTLY EVIL.
I WANT A REAL SOLUTION.
DEMONIZING PEOPLE
BASED ON WHAT THEIR RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE SAYS IS NOT THE RIGHT
SOLUTION.
HERE IS MY ATTEMPT AT A SOLUTION, AND THIS IS FUNNY,
BECAUSE WHEN I WON MY FREEDOM FROM RELIGION AWARD FOR SPEAKING
OUT AGAINST RELIGION, AND YES, I KNOW THAT COMES AS A SHOCK TO
SOME ATHEISTS, BUT I GOT THAT A WORD BECAUSE I OFTEN SAY, HEY WE
SHOULD BE PROACTIVE IN FIGHTING AGAINST THE BAD PARTS OF
RELIGION, NO MATTER WHAT THE RELIGION IS.
SO I DO BELIEVE IN
FIGHTING BACK IN THE CULTURE WARS.
I THINK THE CULTURE WARS
ARE REAL, AND I THINK WE NEED TO
ENGAGE IN THEM.
THIS IS AN ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT
DISTINCTION.
THAT DOES NOT MEAN I AM AGAINST ALL CHRISTIAN
CULTURE OR ALL MUSLIM CULTURE.
I WOULD ARGUE THAT THAT IS A
REALLY SAD, AND LIMITED WAY TO LOOK AT IT.
I AM AGAINST THE
PARTS OF THE CULTURE THAT ARE
PROBLEMATIC.
IF A CHRISTIAN SAYS, LET'S HELP THE POOR AND
THE NEEDY, I LOVE THAT CULTURE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE WEST
DON'T LIVE IN MUSLIM AREAS, SO I GET IT, THEY SEE THE BOMBINGS
AND THINK, THAT IS WHAT A MUSLIM IS.
BUT YOU GO TO A MUSLIM AREA
WHERE THEY GIVE TEN PERCENT OF THEIR MONEY TO HELP THE POOR,
AND ON RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS THE FIRST THING YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO
DO IS TO SACRIFICE A LAMB, OR WHATEVER, TO FEED THE POOR.
TO HELP THE POOR.
YOU NEVER SEE THAT BECAUSE IT'S NOT ON THE NEWS.
IT'S NOT NEWSWORTHY, BUT IT GIVES YOU A SKEWED SENSE OF WHAT
MUSLIMS DO.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I AM SUPER AGGRESSIVE IN THE
OPPOSITE DIRECTION ON SOME OF THE PARTS OF MUSLIM CULTURE THAT
I DISAGREE WITH, THAT I THINK IS
TERRIBLE.
I KNOW SOME OF IT IS GEOGRAPHIC, RATHER THAN RELATED
TO ISLAM, BUT SOME OF IT IS
TOTALLY RELATED TO ISLAM.
THE GEOGRAPHIC CATEGORY,
SOME OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS, THEY DO KIDNAPPINGS
OF BRIDES.
BRIDE KIDNAPPINGS, THEY
RAPE THE GIRL, AND THEN THE PARENTS OF THE GIRL CONVINCE
THE GIRL TO GET MARRIED TO THE RAPIST BECAUSE OF THEIR CULTURE.
THAT IS A HORRIBLE CULTURE AND
PRACTICE.
I KNOW CONSERVATIVES, WHETHER MUSLIM OR
CHRISTIAN SAY, WE PRESERVE TRADITION.
IN AMERICA, WE HAD A
TRADITION CALLED SLAVERY.
WE FOUGHT AGAINST THE CULTURE AND
WE WON, SO WE SHOULD FIGHT AGAINST FEMALE
GENITAL MUTILATION, TERRORISM, KIDNAPPINGS, HONOR KILLINGS.
LET US ALL FIGHT AGAINST THAT TOGETHER.
HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
YOU UNABASHEDLY ENGAGE IN THOSE
CULTURE WARS.
HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
IT IS NOT BY ATTACKING OR
BOMBING PEOPLE.
IT IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
WHAT YOU SAY
HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE ARE FOR,
THIS IS WHY THIS IS WRONG, YOU DO THAT THROUGH EDUCATION.
YOU SHOW
THEM, IF YOU MUTILATE A GIRL, THE QURAN DOESN'T TELL YOU TO DO
THAT, THE BIBLE DOESN'T TELL YOU
DO THAT, YOU MADE THAT PART UP.
IT WAS DONE FOR THIS REASON IN
THE PAST, AND THIS IS THE REAL PURPOSE BEHIND IT.
YOU FIGHT
THEM WITH TRUTH.
THAT IS A LONG-TERM BATTLE, YOU'RE NOT
GOING TO WIN OVERNIGHT.
IT IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY, BUT YOU
KEEP POUNDING AWAY AT THEM WITH THE TRUTH.
YOU HOPE TO CHANGE
THE CULTURE IN THAT WAY.
BUT IF YOU GO AND SAY TO THEM, YOUR
IDENTITY IS WRONG, YOUR IDENTITY ñ IN THIS CASE ISLAM ñ IS
IRREDEEMABLE, AND THAT IS WHY WE MUST KEEP BOMBING YOU, PROFILING
YOU, OCCUPYING YOU, DOING ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING
BECAUSE WE'RE AFRAID OF THE
MUSLIMS, AND WE THINK THE MUSLIMS ARE UNFIXABLE, THAT IS
DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO HELP.
ANOTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND, HERE IS WHY ISIS HAS BEEN
SO SUCCESSFUL IN RECRUITING
YOUNG PEOPLE.
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A CRITICISM OF U.S.
FOREIGN-POLICY, BUT I THINK IT IS WARRANTED.
WHEN THE UNITED
STATES USES FAULTY INTEL TO DROP BOMBS, OR TO DO DRONE STRIKES
ON INNOCENT CIVILIANS, WHEN THEY ACCIDENTALLY KILL INNOCENT
CIVILIANS IN THE PROCESS OF
TRYING TO GET A TERRORIST, AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT THEY REFER
TO THOSE CIVILIANS AS "COLLATERAL DAMAGE,"
HOW EASY DOES IT MAKE ISIS'S RECRUITING MUSLIMS?
AND THEN YOU GET IDIOTS LIKE MIKE HUCKABEE SAYING THAT WE
SHOULD END OUR TREATY WITH IRAN BECAUSE OF THE ATTACKS IN PARIS.
ISIS HATES IRAN.
IT'S A SUNNI SHIA RIFT.
WHY WOULD YOU BE SO
MONUMENTALLY STUPID AS TO ATTACK
MUSLIMS THAT ISIS IS FIGHTING AGAINST?
THAT IS WHAT YOU DO
WHEN YOU SAY MUSLIMS ARE IRREDEEMABLE, THEIR IDEOLOGY IS
FLAWED, THEY ALL BELIEVE THEIR IDEOLOGIES OR THEYíRE UNBEARABLE,
AND WE NEED TO FIGHT AGAINST ISLAM.
THAT IS UNBELIEVABLY
STUPID AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.