(May 7, 2013 at 4:58 pm)Harris Wrote: Mass media is doing its utmost to portray all Muslims as culprit and most of the naive people do take these Muslims as real culprit.
I'm only going to comment on this one particular point...
To a point, I agree with you. It is far, far more common to see Muslims behaving badly in the media than not, and naive people will generalize from this and may perhaps think that all or most Muslims are bad people. (I'd like to make it perfectly clear that I don't hold that opinion at all, about Muslims, or anyone else for that matter. I also need to be clear that I'm generalizing a bit based on what I personally see in the U.S. media, and so my impression is necessarily subjective.)
It's an unfortunate truth that the news media is far, far more likely to report something negative than something positive, regardless of who the story is about. As the saying goes, "If it bleeds, it leads." Where I live, there are not very many Muslims at all - and so it is quite easy to incorrectly generalize beliefs about Muslims based on what is reported in the media. It's unfortunate. I for one understand that while there are terrorist Muslims, not all Muslims are terrorists. I for one would not judge someone solely on the basis of what religion they follow, but rather on the content of their individual character. I'm far from the only one here who feels that way. (Incidentally, atheists suffer from negative stereotyping much the same as Muslims, which is perhaps something you can understand.)
The unfriendly welcome that you received was, I think, largely due to the perception that your first post was insulting and presumptuous, not because you're Muslim.