The "not all Muslims are terrorists" fallacy

[rado84]

Be very careful with the term "plague", as it borders closely on fascist rhetoric we have seen too often on this planet in the past; it has the effect of rhetorically reducing our fellow human beings to germs, and painting the people, rather than the ideology, as something that needs to be eradicated physically, rather than the idea educated/reasoned away.

The reason I'm coming down so hard on you for voicing a desire (and, really, for even harboring it) to attack Muslims is because if we, who are so often the target of the religious majority, cannot recognize the evil that such thinking represents, then who will? As I tell the Christians so often, you don't get to be the martyr and the bully, too.

To even hint at violence toward people, especially if your position is one about which you feel you must be coy, is not cool.

They're spreading like a plague - violently and they don't ask you whether you want them or not. In the past it has been done with a weapon. Now they'll do the same, only not with a weapon but with demands and if the politicians of your country are venal traitors as those of my country are, soon you'll find yourself wearing a long robe with a turban on your head and women will be dressed beyond recognition.

I don't have a problem with other religious groups who don't want to kill me for not wanting to believe what they believe. There are some Indians* here in Bulgaria. They're not as many as the Arabs but I can tell you they don't give a sh.t what we (christians and atheists in a christian world) choose to believe or not to believe and they don't wanna kill us for that. They accept our way of life and don't have desires to change it. I don't know what their religion is, altough it does look similar to Islam, but these are people I'm not afraid of and they're not giving me any reasons to fear them. Quite the opposite, in fact.

*Let me make a note to that - I'm not talking about the Bulgarian gypsies who came from the Indian region about a 1000 years ago and never evolved from that savage stage. I'm talking about native Indians from the 20th and 21st century whose culture and values have evolved to the point to respect other people's beliefs and way of life.

While here are many Turkish who constantly provoke us with statements that Bulgaria must be enslaved and that whoever doesn't want to accept Islam will be killed. But in order to understand that you'll have to live here for some time and witness how Arabs from different countries, Turkish people and Bulgarian gypsies from time to time start shouting a hatred phrase which roughly translates as "Bulgarians should be made a soap". All that is because we refuse to live the life want us to live or to believe what they believe.