RE: Are you an Islamophobe?
March 18, 2015 at 8:32 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2015 at 8:37 am by WinterHold.)
(March 18, 2015 at 6:55 am)Cato Wrote: Yet this seems to be your single source of news for evaluating western opinion of Muslims. You keep describing far right opinion as universal in the west, it's not even a majority. The amusing thing is that you then use this oversimplification and misplaced generalization as evidence to support your misguided notion that the west holds all Muslims accountable for the acts of a few. Seems to me you are doing exactly what you are being critical of.
From dear o'l arabia, nothing reaches us but this far right opinion. Al-Jazeera for example, always concentrates on them opinions.
But I learned from this forum, and occupy wallstreet, that yeah, this is not the majority.
I might be a little bit stiff ; cato. But at least I'm making sure by my own head without using any intermediate media agency, what the opinion is in the outside.
And again, the far right DID win before and that's during Bush's reign ; actually won twice in a row and easily.
Now, the same story is happening allover Europe, and the far rightists are on the rise.
The one thing I know, or at least the only image that reaches me, is that I'll be torn to pieces in the west for being a Muslim, and end up losing everything, including my own life . And truly, the only image I see, is military officials from the west supporting dictators. Again, as distorted as this message is, my topic in R'iyeh is exactly how I see my image in western mentality : my media told me that. Though I'm not that dumb to follow it blindly.
Eventually led me to manifesting my view : we are all humans, it's our culture that makes us grasp the illusion of difference ; eventually we are all members in the same family.
Sorry for the lecture.