You have no idea how many or how few Muslims speak out against violence. You only know what the media you consume tell you. In my life I've had several conversations about this type of stuff with Muslim friends of mine, and more often than not, they initiate the conversation because they know I'm a redneck, which is something that is subject to its own stereotype. Not a single time has the topic come up when a Muslim friend hasn't condemned this stuff outright.

At any rate, there are no two people who are more different from each other than a murderer and a non-murderer, and it is absolutely ignorant to group the two together because you see the common thread of a religious background between them.

But then again, I'm only basing what I say on facts and personal experience. The cable news to which virtually this entire board is addicted clearly delivers a more trustworthy message.

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Posted by funnystuff

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Posted on 6/3/17 at 8:27 pm to ballscaster

It's disappointing that you have so severely misrepresented who I am with such zealous certainty

Your Muslims friends are but an extraordinarily small sample of the general Muslim population. And the fact that they are simply here in America means that they are sufficiently more privileged than the vast majority middle eastern Muslims. The cultural perspectives of most American Muslims differ vastly from those across the globe and there is absolutely no denying that an uncomfortably large portion of the global Muslim population is far to passive when it comes to these acts of terror. No, not all of them. But enough that it's worth acknowledging

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