An ok writeup on Huffington post from November 2015 "What's Wrong with Rubio Comparing Muslims to Members
of the Nazi Party" speaks to this issue specifically. "I've heard it echoed countless times in the honest question, "Why don't Muslims speak out?" "
"By claiming Muslims are like Nazis, both Rubio and the 2007 chain message assert a dangerous, but latent, assumption: that ordinary Muslims and groups like ISIS have the same worldview, want the same things, share something fundamental and are part of the same "party" simply because of their shared religion.
"The injustice of a comparison like this comes into clear relief when we apply it to other religious groups. Do we assume Christians are part of the same camp as violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the Irish Resistance Army or the anti-Balaka militias in the Central African Republic, simply because they claim the moniker of "Christian?" Similarly, do we blame all Jews for attacks carried out by settlers in the West Bank? The answer is obvious: Of course not. Do we expect them to speak out against these acts, to prove they are un-Christian or un-Jewish? Never.
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Finally, this narrative's emphasis on the complicity of a "silent majority," betrays the fact that all over the world Muslims have been emphatically denouncing groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, even when they shouldn't have to. From an online letter authored by over 100 prominent Muslim scholars to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, to the statements made by Muslim civic organizations and mosques worldwide, to the Facebook posts shared by ordinary students and parents, Muslims are "tripping over themselves" (as Jonathan Brown put it recently at the Parliament of World Religions) to distance themselves from violent entities with which they share virtually nothing but the identifier "Muslim." "
And I LOVE Sam Harris. What we expect from American Muslims is a double standard. I am guessing 20 % of christians would fit into unsavory category to, what's that prove? Your saying their religion is motivating them to be violent...well what's motivationg a bunch of gun toters/bombers doing outside an abortion clinic, one sentence in the bible. Crazy will always try to spin THE WORD, doesn't mean it fits or works. Harris points out that the quran has more than just one sentence, and I get that, but where does that leave you...afraid of muslims? Its fear based thinking...
Gimme some Murrow "...we are not decended from fearful men" and "The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."
Not my best work, but I feel strongly about protecting Muslim religious freedoms (though I'm not one); it would be un-American to act differently. Destroy me with grace. ;)