Muslim awareness classes for schools?

[Platypus]

re-educate

isn't that a great word, with absolutely no connotations.

Anyway, there's no point. According to The Times yesterday, entrenched views last for centuries:
Voters remember what politicians forget | The Times

On the January 9, 1349, in Basel, 600 Jews were gathered together in a wooden house, specially constructed for the purpose, and then their fellow citizens set it on fire and burnt them all to death. Similar massacres occurred around the same time in many parts of Northern Europe, particularly in Germany. It was a response to the Black Death. [A recent academic study has shown that] there is a link between these massacres and areas where the Nazi Party did well in the 1928 election. Essentially, the Nazis did much better in places where there had been burnings a full 600 years earlier than in places where there had not been. And attacks on synagogues in 1938 were also associated with towns where Jews were murdered those many centuries earlier.

[TheFaQQer]

7/11.

Thinking about a quick trip to get another two-foot hoagie?

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Media?

7/11. 7/7. Kenya Westgate Mall.

I think we know who's to blame here.

I'd have expected better from you MF.

There is a certain "brand" of Islam which is more of a threat to Muslims and Islam than it is to anybody else. Sure they are carrying the label of Islam as if they own it but that doesn't mean they actually do own it.

[Mich the Tester]

I'd have expected better from you MF.

There is a certain "brand" of Islam which is more of a threat to Muslims and Islam than it is to anybody else. Sure they are carrying the label of Islam as if they own it but that doesn't mean they actually do own it.

WHS

[TheFaQQer]

7/11. 7/7. Kenya Westgate Mall.

I think we know who's to blame here.

Religious fundamentalists.

To tar all muslims with the same brush is the equivalent of saying that all Christians are members of the KKK.

[amcdonald]

Religious fundamentalists.

To tar all muslims with the same brush is the equivalent of saying that all Christians are members of the KKK.

Fundamentalist christians are alive and well in America, they aren't quite the same level of mentalist but they're not far off

The KKK they are not though

[Gibbon]

What’s interesting here is the lack of recognition that it is the youth that have probably had the most contact with the muslim community through schools and colleges etc. Simply blaming the parents is lazy, youth naturally challenge; the same applies to terrorist outrages as most can see it is outliers and not the general population.

[Ticktock]

What’s interesting here is the lack of recognition that it is the youth that have probably had the most contact with the muslim community through schools and colleges etc. Simply blaming the parents is lazy, youth naturally challenge; the same applies to terrorist outrages as most can see it is outliers and not the general population.

I have a family member who lives in Staines, works at Heathrow. After the Woolwich attack he decided to sign a petition to ban Islam in the UK.

This guy is in his late 40s, and I imagine works with and lives around a fair number of Muslims, but still felt that the actions of a couple of deranged nutters represented a group as a whole.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I have a family member who lives in Staines, works at Heathrow. After the Woolwich attack he decided to sign a petition to ban Islam in the UK.

This guy is in his late 40s, and I imagine works with and lives around a fair number of Muslims, but still felt that the actions of a couple of deranged nutters represented a group as a whole.

Could you imagine how peed off you would be (in addition to already being disgusted by the atrocity) if you were Muslim and these nutters were pretending to represent you even though they have nothing to do with you.....

[Gibbon]

I have a family member who lives in Staines, works at Heathrow. After the Woolwich attack he decided to sign a petition to ban Islam in the UK.

This guy is in his late 40s, and I imagine works with and lives around a fair number of Muslims, but still felt that the actions of a couple of deranged nutters represented a group as a whole.

More likely he has no true muslim friends and simply tolerates those around until a certain incident breaks his tolerance threshold. Note:- tolerance does not equate to liking