Let me guess - you've never been in a large group situation where you are seemingly accepted, but nearly everyone looks down upon you and treats you with constant suspicion and questions your motives and reminds you on a regular basis that you are different, and that you are lucky to be part of the group. Have you?
Seriously, who cares? Everyone of us will have to deal at some point in life with people that look down upon us for stupid reasons.
That doesn't give you an excuse to kill 100 random strangers!
It is their culture that causes this, as they have a loud group that constantly calls for these massacres and generally very few of them speak up against this loud group of fanatics.
We don't have anything like that in our culture, that's why it's so rare that somebody from us ends up mass murdering 100 random persons.
If someone from us tried calling for mass murdering some minority he'll actually be locked up in no time and attacked harshly by the media. That's how we effectively deal with our radicals.
I'm tired of all these attempts to appease members of this culture as it is clearly a much worse culture than ours and they could actually learn something from us.
Where ever Muslims are the majority you always see the same result: Poverty, cruel law system, oppression, massacre and often civil war
And somehow no one seems to be willing to accept that this is the direct result of their value system and their culture.
How are they ever going to improve their societies if we help their fanatics to keep oppressing dissenters by constantly repeating that their culture is great and everything's fine?
Edit: And because I'm sure someone will state that this is unfair because we constantly meddle in their affairs: We also constantly meddle in Russian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese and EU affairs and vice versa.
Still these societies seem to be sufficiently resilient to not collapse in mass murder and total chaos.
Muslim societies constantly collapsed when Socialism was en vogue 50 years ago same as they collapse today with Islamism. You can promote any -Ism you want there, nothing will change as long as the oppressive nature of their culture doesn't change.
> We don't have anything like that in our culture, that's why it's so rare that somebody from us ends up mass murdering 100 random persons.
The USA has something endemic in their culture which results in toddlers killing more people that terrorists have in their country this year.
People in other countries without this same culture try telling the US how that can stop it by trying the same things that worked in their own countries but keep being told to go away, there is nothing wrong and to mind their own business.
> We also constantly meddle in Russian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese and EU affairs and vice versa. Still these societies seem to be sufficiently resilient to not collapse in mass murder and total chaos.
Does the US 'meddle' in those countries to the extent of placing troops on the ground within their borders in order to shoot at citizens of said country? Does the US conduct drone strikes against people of those countries?
> The USA has something endemic in their culture which results in toddlers killing more people that terrorists have in their country this year.
Every society that gives it's citizens the right to bear arms will have accidents. I also doubt that toddlers will have killed more persons than terrorists this year.
> Does the US 'meddle' in those countries to the extent of placing troops on the ground within their borders in order to shoot at citizens of said country? Does the US conduct drone strikes against people of those countries?
Today the West does so in the Middle East, but there is also a real threat to us. 30-50 years ago it wasn't so and there were few soldiers placed in these countries, except for Saudi Arabia because they are apparently incapable of upholding their fine system without Western help. Still their countries were a total mess like they are to this day.
Of course there was meddling and certain groups were supported like the West always does everywhere. But what those groups did with that support in terms of cruelty when compared to other cultures is not comparable.
I guarantee you this, if every country stopped meddling in the Middle East first thing they would do is getting weapons of mass destruction and then they'd proceed to annihilate each other.
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ALL the scenarios you mentioned above apply. The fact that you cannot seem to grasp that probably indicates that you are outside all of those groups, and have never experienced what I stated (in plain English) in my original post.
Let me give you an example from my own experience - I am of sub-continental heritage, and my family migrated to Australia over 3 decades ago. It has been 99.999% a fantastic life and I embrace the great life and great people here.
But a few years back there were a few high profile cases of young Indian men brutally raping women in India, and other places. The mass media latched onto this and immediately went into portraying any man of Indian descent as being a brutal rapist in waiting. I felt that societal change. Almost overnight, I noticed people move away from me when I entered a store. There was a measured difference in the hostility I experienced when talking to people I didn't know. Young women would cross the street when they saw me approach, and cross back after I had passed.
Observing these changes DID cause a rage to boil up inside me. How could someone who didn't even know me as a person judge me by the actions of others. I had done everything I could to integrate and embrace this new world, but for the first time ever, I felt unwanted and that my presence was causing discomfort for those around me.
It never got to the extent of projecting that hurt and anger at anyone else, nor would I, because that is not in my nature. Thankfully the media lost interest in that narrative fairly quickly, and people now treat me in an open friendly way as before.
But if those negative perceptions were perpetually front and centre in the media, and I had to bear the brunt of it for an extended period then I really don't know how my ultimate reaction would have manifested itself.
