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Yes, well, give them time...(snip)...It isn't like apologies are ever timely.
All true. My initial post was that a lack of acknowledgement by the responsible Islamic world can give rise to Islamophobia.
Yes, well, give them time...(snip)...It isn't like apologies are ever timely.
Its not always about you, princess
Right, I missed that line.
Islamic. I'm referring to situations where Islam played (in some still plays) a major role in the policies utilised and actions of the government or people at the time against Non-Muslims. I know they have their own in-fighting but I was not addressing that part of the discussion with regards to Islamophobia with @goldomark.
What good is it to be princess if I get no love. Empty title.
A religion professor once pointed out to me that every world religion over 800 years old goes through a period of zealotry and militaristic expansion, sometimes by people hijacking the faith, sometimes backed by holy writ.True, but this misconception and line of propaganda that this religion's history is and has always been a religion of peace needs to be corrected. As I said upthread, the religion is 1200-1400 years of age - and we all know about Christianity's history at that age.
16 But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, 18 that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you in against the Lord your God.
NOBODY gets to take the high ground.
When it comes to Islam, I think there is also a problem that it is seen as more dangerous than other religions. It is not just a question of refusing to apologize for past crimes.
I think a large part of that has to do with the modern 24 hour news cycle. It isn't as if the Islamic world & the Judeo-Christian world haven't been at loggerheads for centuries, after all.
Prior to the rise of televised mass media and its eventual shift to an instantaneous reportage model bolstered by the ubiquity of the amateur reporters & their cell phone cameras, news of evil done in each (well, any) faith's name took time. Some stuff simply never got reported. Couple that with amateurs not having the professional's journalistic ethical framework driving (but admittedly not forcing) them to provide neutral and full context for what is reported...
When it comes to Islam, I think there is also a problem that it is seen as more dangerous than other religions. It is not just a question of refusing to apologize for past crimes.
I think a large part of that has to do with the modern 24 hour news cycle. It isn't as if the Islamic world & the Judeo-Christian world haven't been at loggerheads for centuries, after all.
Prior to the rise of televised mass media and its eventual shift to an instantaneous reportage model bolstered by the ubiquity of the amateur reporters & their cell phone cameras, news of evil done in each (well, any) faith's name took time. Some stuff simply never got reported. Couple that with amateurs not having the professional's journalistic ethical framework driving (but admittedly not forcing) them to provide neutral and full context for what is reported...