re: #205 SixDegrees

Given that several blogs were actively flogging their readership into full hate and violence mode for the last few weeks over this gathering, I’m not surprised turnout was low. There was a very high risk of something very bad happening.

Which says way, way more than I want to hear about the state of the US these days.

Afternoon Six:

While I don’t condone this mindset I can understand the pathology behind it by mere notion of “turnabout is fair play”.

I will probably become a target for this, but as I don’t agree I do understand as I am seeing in my community/state/country many people becoming sick and tired of seeing muslims coming out en masse to publicly rail on against the West calling for jihad and death to the kuffar; this while living under the security and guarantee of free speech that their non-caliphate hosts give them.

People are becoming further wary and untrustworthy of muslims, especially when they show up in numbers. This is largely because gatherings such as these are rare, and there are those who will believe that this gathering was arranged in the hopes that a vitriolic opposition would show up and give them their “what for”, thus cementing the “victimhood” status many muslims aspire towards.

I myself have done copious research on muslims, the koran and their heritage/history. I can state that there are two things I don’t trust: the ones that call for jihad and a caliphate, and the idea that when you do what they see as injustice you in turn do to all muslims. I understand that the vast majority do not share this like-mindedness and are afraid to come out publicly to stand with the United States and the West. This has to change. We need dialog.

I disagree that this is a trend with the citizens of my beloved country. Unfortunately numbers don’t lie. A huge majority of terrorist attacks are perpetrated by muslims in the name of islam. Also a huge majority of public gatherings of muslims here and abroad are rife with extremists calling for the deaths of the kuffars and everything else they rail about.

People are reacting to what they see and while I disagree, again I understand why. I myself stay quiet doing my part here and there (I can’t say here what those “parts” are). You cannot honestly expect people to sit idly and quietly forever, donning the illusion that they are the proverbial “cooler heads” that they are expected to be indefinitely. They see people calling for war and people are starting to get up and answer that call.

Fuck man I am as afraid as you are, but for different reasons.

Again we need dialog and for more muslims to get up and say something positive and get their people moving to stand side by side with the people who despise killing in the name of religion. Sitting quiet about it gives people the notion that they agree with it, pure and simple.

I sincerely hope that the “infiltrators” and those who showed up to disrupt this prayer session inspire the America loving muslims to stand up and say:

“HEY FUCKO WE’RE ON YOUR SIDE!”