In the present time, there is no one as subjugated as the 1 billion Muslims around the world either through military or economic strangulation.
I could answer your email with a long one here but a better one would be for you to pick up the book "A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East".
Read this to get an idea as to how the Muslim nation has been wronged over the past century and then you will get an idea as to how some people lean over to extremist ideologies.
The people who sip wine in Martha's winyard are not chosen by Muslims. They have been "installed" with active support of the west. This is how the man on the Muslim street perceives the problem. When Muslims elect their own, then a propaganda is unleashed (e.g. Hamas election in Palestine, Iranian democracy).
I would but also expect the same from other religions...when Muslims are being killed at their hands, then don't expect only Muslims to apologise for deaths happening at the hands of Muslim extremists (it is still wrong and condemnable as Islam does not permit it). However terrorism goes two ways...one is the commonly known one of a suicide bomber, the other is what we call "state terrorism". In the end, innocents are dying so why do the adherents of the other religions not speak out about the hundreds of thousands of "innocent" Muslims being killed by their mighty and powerful militaries and sanctions?
Yes that goes without saying.
I have no problem believing that its real, however it is a reality amongst a small minority of Muslims...these views do not represent the vast majority of Muslims....if you'd like, I can post quite a bit of literature coming from Christian, Jewish and Hindu extremists about others.
Yes while I can appreciate your offer of conditional support, I too would like to reiterate that the so-called civilized powers are even more dangerous in ways that people tend not to look at. They have more innocent blood on their hands than what a rag-tag bunch of extremist Muslims could ever imagine...don't forget to include benign looking murderers like Madelline Albright who said that the death of 50,0000 Iraqi children was worth it since it was helping them get rid of Saddam (this was due to the economic sanctions on Iraq). That alone is more than any atrocity committed by any fundamentalist, extremist, violent Muslim nut case that you are being so fearful of.
In the end I would say that I do not condome any of what is being stated in these videos. Any killings or violence against innocent people/civilians is catagorically wrong! We are even forbidden to burn trees and farms during jhad, what to talk of killing innocent people...however I think the ones who cater to such beliefs have taken to such extremist views because they see the treatment being meted out to other Muslims at the hands of civilized nations...there is a double standard there and for the sake of humanity, Good Men have to consider that and set the wrongs right.
