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As the Pakistani Taliban kill 141 people in their most recent act of barbarity, including 132 children, we should not be so quick to react to this sad tragedy! Surely the anti-Muslim individuals and groups would love to use such horrific acts to push their hateful agenda, even though they could…

I agree, but I wonder at your quickness to declare this issue is primarily about Islamophobes, and not about the radical Islamists. This hasn’t happened in the West, where the Islamophobes mostly exist. This happened in Pakistan. As you’ve pointed out, Muslims in MENA suffer much from radical Islamists.

In fact, Muslims collectively suffer far, far more from radical Islamists than they suffer from Islamophobes. Islamophobes attack and harass Muslims, make laws against them, or try to stop them from immigrating to European countries, but the number of Muslims murdered by Islamophobes isn’t very large, compared to those killed almost daily by Islamists.

Yes, Muslims shouldn’t be attacked, *by anyone*. At the moment, sadly, they are attacked from all sides, but suffer greater danger from religious extremists than Western bigots.

I agree with you, Muslims definitely suffer more at the hands of extremists than the Islamophobes. The Islamophobes, for the most part, only do what they can do to harass and discriminate. Even though I’m an atheist I still face that hateful Islamophobia sometimes.

I only merely wanted to share my views, as someone who does live in the West, who is so adamantly against this violence, trying to mention how we all need to step back and look at the bigger picture when horrific tragedies like this take place.

Okay, I understand that as someone living in the West, Islamophobia is more of an issue you deal with, so it’s understandable that you’d write about that.

I just felt that’s it’s important to emphasize that radical Islam is a problem, and not merely because it’s exploited by Islamophobes as a rhetorical device to attack Muslims.

Believe me I’m the first to say Islamic extremism is a huge problem. The country I was born in has enslaved 70 million people because an extremist Islamic theocracy rules over it, but what I’m saying is look at who suffers as the result, the overwhelming majority are Muslims. Then the islamaphobes who don’t give a rat’s ass about them and actually hate them, will use the suffering of the ordinary Muslims to push forward their hateful anti-Muslim agenda.

What more can a Muslim living and working in the West do than to condemn terrorism and extremism, such as the #notinmyname campaign? Practically, not much more can be done. They have lives and jobs, I personally put a lot of time aside from my work and life to promote a means by ethic we can see a more united and peaceful world. Most people don’t even have the time for that in their busy lives. They take the effort to condemn violence, but they really cannot do much more.

You’re right, and I believe that it is more the responsibility of people who have power and influence to condemn extremism than the ordinary Muslim that lives in the West.

Definitely :)

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