The ignorance on here is laughable. People are talking about 1000+ years of violence from Muslims, while completely ignoring the violent history of Christian Europe and it's sequel in America. Slavery, colonialism, forced conversions, lynchings, jewish holocaust, h-bombing in Japan, etc. were all the brainchildren of good Christians doing their deeds in the name of God.

All the accusations you make of west are true. But can you point to any western country which still have their laws discriminating against non-christians? The fact that you are living comfortable in the west is the answer to that question. How is it that every one of the 57 OICs have absolutely discriminatory laws against non-muslims? BTW the last country to abolish Slavery is you know, right that Islamic Paradise, you know you go for your annual pilgrimage, the one and only Saudi Arabia. One last thing don't justify Islamic Vileness by saying the same is true of other religions too.

Mamamudiwa writes: "People are talking about 1000+ years of violence from Muslims, while completely ignoring the violent history of Christian Europe and it's sequel in America. Slavery, colonialism, forced conversions, lynchings, jewish holocaust, h-bombing in Japan, etc. were all the brainchildren of good Christians doing their deeds in the name of God."

Take it for granted that everything you say is true. How does that for a second change the problems with Islam and how it treats the non-muslims? How does that for a second change that it was a follower of Muhammad who are sending us bombs by mail, and who are yelling Allah hu Akbar and killing people now?

Do you know of any viable Christian, KKK, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Bahai, Zorastrian, Pagan, threat in the present?

Focus. I know you can do that.

I can't help but notice that every Muslim reaction to the low regard with which they are held due to the terror propagated by their religious brethren is to pass the blame to the targets of their religion, to chide them for overreacting, to encourage them to acquiesce to Muslim attacks as the new normal. I don't see any Muslim taking responsibility for the violent excesses of Islam nor making an attempt to reform his or her religion to eliminate its belligerence. A good first step for Muslims that would improve their reputation is to disavow all the violent doctrines in their Koran that demand they kill non-Muslims. My advice to all those Muslims demanding respect: earn it.

we muslims, at least those of us living in the safe environs of the west, should start something along the lines of the reformation, a "reformation lite" if you will.
while it's true that islam is viewed with suspicion in the west, irrationally at times, it's also true that muslims are doing nothing, not even the so called moderate "silent majority" let alone the rabid set, to bring islam out of the 7th century arabia mindset. and allah knows that there is much that needs to change:

we need to change how the quran tells us to view the "unbeliever" aka kafir [the word kafir should go the way of the n word]; how islam advocates the treatment of women [second class and worse]; islam's stance on gay rights is abominable [the ugly truth is that we are worse than the evangelicals ]; on relations with the state [particularly non-islamic governments]; on apostasy [i grew up an agnostic in pakistan, and the first time i was able to declare my lack of belief openly without fearing for my life was when i moved to new york]; and last but not the least, we need to conduct an honest appraisal prophet muhammad's life, who, in my opinion, did not lead a life worthy of emulation, to say the least.

The ignorance on here is laughable. People are talking about 1000+ years of violence from Muslims, while completely ignoring the violent history of Christian Europe and it's sequel in America. Slavery, colonialism, forced conversions, lynchings, jewish holocaust, h-bombing in Japan, etc. were all the brainchildren of good Christians doing their deeds in the name of God.

I wonder if Juan Williams fears a KKK hood more than "Muslim garb".

What is really "scary" is what Muslims have been doing for the last 1400 years. Now that we have 1400 years of documented activities coming from Islam I think we are justified in our concerns.

The best way to judge any religion is to examine the worthiness of the founder. Mohammed picked up the sword and killed those who opposed him, and that is a fact. Jesus Christ did not pick up the sword and laid down his life for his enemies, and that is also a fact. Then He raised Himself from the dead. Now choose whom you will serve.

Follow a dead savior, and you'll end up just like him.

You use the word "irrational" repeatedly in describing those of us who react negatively to Islam - a person would have to be in a coma not to see that nearly every terrorist these days is a Muslim, committing his atrocities in the name of Allah.
If you don't like it, why don't you leave this country, and take your fellow Muslims with you? There are ?57? Islamic countries aren't there? You could express your ethnicity in any way you like publicly there - please go! Life was so much better before I knew anything about Muslims.

"as a society we have allowed irrational fear to control our actions. And to act on the fear of Muslim clothing in an airport is clearly irrational."

You're joking right? How can it be irrational when all your religion breeds is hateful racist and terrorist? The idea of "moderate" Islam is a total joke. Go back to living in the 7th century... just do it in your on God forsaken country and take your backwards religion with you.

Shahed AmanUllah:

An example from you website:

http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/3964
What’s behind negative characterizations of Muslims?
By Asma Uddin, September 24, 2010

The phrase reveals another common fear-mongering tactic--using the term "Sharia" as a bogeyman. Conjuring images of Taliban human rights abuses, those who wield the term against Muslims reduce an entire corpus of religio-spiritual legal principles to the misguided actions of a few. Similarly foreign-sounding systems of religious law, such as the Catholic "corpus juris canonici" or Jewish "halacha" are no longer portrayed as despotic monsters, or even exoticized, the way "Sharia" is today.

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The comments with the article finds the muslim commentators justifying and defending Sharia. One muslim poster claims that "Sharia is for muslims only", and there is no mention at all of the consequences of Sharia on the non-muslims. There is no recognition of the devestation that Sharia is causing the non-muslims in muslim countries and what it has done to the non-muslims in the muslim countries for the last 1440 years.

Why such blindness? You want the kafirs to look upon the muslims here without fear but your website is advocating comment after comment support for Sharia that treats the non-muslims as second class humans. Why should you not be considered with apprehension?

Shahed Amanullah:

You founded Altmuslims site and are part of the altmuslimah site as well.

Those are good sites. However they do not seem to address some of the questions that do need to be asked.

You never seem to discuss or condemn the discriminatory laws derived from Sharia against the non-muslims in all muslim societies. Why is the hate for the non-muslims in the Koran not condemned by you?

Some of the laws are given at
http://www.wluml.org/node/338

These are the laws as they exist in the present for non-muslims in muslim countries. They are the true garb of the muslims as far as non-muslims are concerned, and they are scary. This is the Sharia that Muslim organisations like CAIR, ISNA, MAS, etc. want to bring to the Kafir USA? That is scary.

I know you try to say your prayers five times a day. Why is it that you never address that ayet 7 of the first Sura that all muslims say in the pravers is hateful for the Jews and the Christians, and a block in a truly peaceful society?
Muslims repeating five times a day the world over that Allahs anger is on the jews and the Christian are astray. Now that is scary.

Do you agree with some of the assertions by your religion regarding non-muslims? Do you agree that non-muslims should be denied entry to Mecca because they are filthy?

That muslims would consider ALL non-muslims filthy because their Allah says so is scary.

Do you agree that since Muhammad is an exemplary Human according to the Quran, and Allah encourages muslims to emulate Muhammad in every little detail, that it is okay to marry little girls and have sex with them because Muhammad married a child?

That Allah would sanction pedophilia is really scary.

In your country of origin, India, the personal laws for Muslims are different from the other communities and follow the Islamic Sharia. Do you want a similar arrangement in the USA? If no, why not?

There are quite a few more questions that need to be asked. I hope your web sites will discuss some of them sometime.

As it stands, joking about a bomb at the airport is really not funny, and neither is wearing a burkha or wearing a suicide vest in public for Halloween.

Burquas are particularly scary because they could conceal a 20 year old male jihadi with a suicide/homocide belt. No face to see no empathy towards other humans, only fabric and explosion and killing the infidel. Scary indeed!