Well, at least someone knows we're suffering, too.

[PeacefulHumanity]

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Here is an article by Peter Beinhart from Newsweek. I wish there were more people like him in America. Open the attachment and take a read, please.

 

[strive-may-i]

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A Quiet Campaign of Violence Against American Muslims

Americans need to wake up to attacks on U.S. Muslims.When muslim extremists attacked their third American church in three days, the cable networks cut away from regular programming to cover the news. When militants vandalized a Christian school in Illinois two days later, both presidential candidates issued statements denouncing the wave of jihadist violence. When terrorists shot up another church the day after that, President Obama flew to comfort the parishioners. By the sixth attack, Rush Limbaugh was demanding that the Obama administration ditch its politically correct pussyfooting and acknowledge the Muslim fifth column in our midst. After the seventh attack, lawmakers introduced legislation giving the feds additional powers to detain American citizens suspected of extremist views. After the attack, a group of congressmen suggested that the U.S. halt immigration from Muslim countries.

None of this happened. But in recent weeks, here’s what has. On Aug. 4, teenagers pelted a mosque in Hayward, Calif., with fruit. On Aug. 5, Wade Michael Page murdered six congregants and wounded a police officer at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, quite possibly because he thought the Sikhs were Muslim. That same day, a man vandalized a mosque in North Smithfield, R.I. On Aug. 6, a mosque in Joplin, Mo., was burned to the ground. On Aug. 7, two women threw pieces of pork at the site of a proposed Islamic center in Ontario, Calif. On Aug. 10, a man allegedly shot a pellet rifle at a mosque near Chicago while people prayed inside. On Aug. 12, attackers fired paintball guns at a mosque in Oklahoma City, and a homemade bomb filled with acid was thrown at an Islamic school in Lombard, Ill. On Aug. 15, assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at the home of a Muslim family in Panama City, Fla.

Except for the Sikh temple attack, little of this has made the national press (other than Salon.com, which has chronicled it well), in part because it doesn’t fit the prevailing media narrative. At least since 9/11, “terror” and “homeland security” have been terms that connote the danger that Muslims pose to non-Muslims, not the other way around. But this very fear of Muslim violence may be sparking anti-Muslim violence, and hysteria-peddling politicians bear some of the blame.

During the Republican presidential primaries, Herman Cain said he would not appoint a Muslim to his cabinet. Newt Gingrich warned incessantly about Sharia being imposed upon the United States. In July, Michele Bachmann and several other members of Congress insinuated that Huma Abedin, one of the few American Muslims in a high-level government job, was an agent of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. John McCain, Marco Rubio, and John Boehner criticized Bachmann’s smear campaign, but Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Eric Cantor, and Romney adviser John Bolton defended it. Romney, predictably, tried to have it both ways, saying that Bachmann’s attacks “are not things that are part of my campaign,” but that “I’m not going to tell other people what things to talk about.” In other words, I won’t defame American Muslims myself, but if other prominent Republicans want to, go ahead. After receiving threats, Abedin now receives FBI security protection.

Obviously, jihadist terrorism still exists. (As does anti-Christian violence by the secular left, as evidenced by last week’s shooting at the offices of the Family Research Council.) But more than a decade after 9/11, the overwhelming evidence suggests that the jihadist threat has diminished dramatically. Yes, Islamists are gaining power in parts of the Middle East, but “Islamism” has become the same kind of catchall phrase that “communism” was in the 1950s, which means it ranges from people who want to kill Americans to people who just hold a different vision of society. The Muslim Brotherhood may be bad news for Egypt, and perhaps Israel, but it’s hardly planning attacks on U.S. soil.
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In the 1950s, Joseph McCarthy—believing that it was too difficult to fight communism abroad—declared that the real threat came from communists at home. In so doing, he fueled a hysteria that ruined the lives of countless Americans who had dabbled in leftist politics but never remotely posed a threat to their fellow citizens. Today, with the Bush era’s epic “war on terror” ending with a whimper, a new generation of anti--Muslim -McCarthyites is doing something similar. The more American politicians insist that Islam is inherently hateful and violent, the more hate and violence they foment against Muslims in the U.S. Maybe if the media covered the attacks American Muslims endure as vigorously as they cover the attacks American Muslims commit, more people would realize that.

 

[strive-may-i]

When one turns the pages of history, unprejudiced and without bias, it become evident, peaceful, enduring silently - trait of Muslims. Muslims blend with the native culture. In recent times there have been reactionary individual outbursts, (of wrong kind) to come out of oppression. Instead of using these symptoms to plug the root cause (oppression), the current world powers have used this to politically further the same old propoganda. In Middle ages and during crusades, 101 lies were propagated in Europe, to create a non-existent threat. Europe again repeated, post-colonial era, but this time repeating against its own nation states, during world war-1, world war-2, exhausting and scarring generations, the worst of its kind. And now repeatedly choosing targets - Russia, Vietnam,China, and many more...
Not my opinion, but from a report again from a western source. Whats needed all over the world is honest soul-searching, less lies...

 

[strive-may-i]

Bombing to win from a safe distance v/s blowing the self to get attention!

The University of Chicago's Robert Pape studied every suicide attack committed world-wide over an almost 25-year period and concluded:

The data show that there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world's religions. In fact, the leading instigators of suicide attacks are the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, a Marxist-Leninist group whose members are from Hindu families but who are adamantly opposed to religion…

Rather, what nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland. Religion is rarely the root cause, although it is often used as a tool by terrorist organizations in recruiting and in other efforts in service of the broader strategic objective.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pape

Pape’s work has proved powerful among academics for two reasons. For one, it is rigorously empirical. Dying to Win lists all known suicide attacks and categorizes them by date, target, weapon employed, and death toll. It cross-references these with an analysis of the various foreign occupations occurring from 1980 to 2003, which are themselves subdivided by different typologies. In other words, Pape moves terrorism from the realm of speculation to social science.

His second major accomplishment is even more vital: He analyzed terrorists as rational political actors. Suicide terrorists are uniquely horrifying in their methods, yes, but they are simply waging a form of asymmetrical warfare. In other words, they are using terror to pursue politics by other means, as Clausewitz’s famous dictum held.
This is a simple, seemingly obvious insight—but it had nevertheless eluded most scholars for decades

[h=1]Dr. Robert A. Pape[/h]

Professor of Political Science, University of ChicagoRobert Pape graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburg in 1982 with a degree in Political Science. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1988 in the same field.From 1991-1994, Pape taught Air Power Strategy at the United States Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies. Following this, Pape taught International Relations at Dartmouth from 1994-1999. In 1999, Pape returned to the University of Chicago to teach, where he is now tenured.Pape's past work has focused on the use of coercive air power and the effectiveness of sanctions. Currently, Pape has turned his attention to "the causes of suicide terrorism and the politics of unipolarity."At the University of Chicago, Pape has been the director of Graduate Studies for Political Science, the chair of The Committee on International Relations, and he has co-directed the Program on International Security Policy with John Mearsheimer since 1999. In 2004, Pape founded the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism, which he still directs.​

 

[PeacefulHumanity]

Rather, what nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.

Yup, sounds about right.

Oh, and thanks for getting the text version up. Did you find it online or convert it from the image?