Enduser36

"Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9"

"A Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some 300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on their suicide missions."

How are Muslim communities within Canada responding to these threats ?
It would be in the interest of these communities to "responde"
The threats and actions of muslims in the middle east, will reflect on Muslim Canadians within Canada.

Non Muslim Canadians react and direct their reactions within Canada to Canadian Muslims.

Is their Muslim Communities responding ? Is their Muslim leaders within Canada taking the proper actions to fight this stereotype on all Muslims.

After announcements such as the 300 suicide bombers, do Muslims within Canada take action to responde as Canadians to indentify themselves apart of the support.

Are the Muslim Communities within Canada, taking the proper steps to deal with the up rising Muslim conflicts.

Do the Muslim Communities set themselves apart from the terrorists by responding ?

3v3r1ast

The truth is,there is nothing that can be done.

Jabato

I'm absolutely confidence that there are lots of moderates muslim, but on the other hand, I haven't seen them when their opinion was needed

vladward8

If nothing has been blown up I'd say 99% of Canadas Moslems don't feel a need to blow anything up.

Scribbler1

I've also noticed the absence of worldwide condemnation of terrorists from the mainstream Muslim community.

I would hate to think they are okay with it, that their religion would keep them silent. But I will say it would be a good move on their part to start repudiating these animals BEFORE the non-Muslim world gets together and annihilates them as a group.

Don't think it can't happen.

The Nazis had a lot of regular Germans convinced Jews were a threat, and the Jews didn't do much of anything to anyone. What do you think will happen when some particularly charismatic leader demonizes Muslims, especially when he has their own actions to use as proof?

I think there WILL be a tipping point, where that one random terrorist attack will be the last straw and the whole civilized world, the nations who actually MAKE the weapons terrorists use, will have had enough.
Mass bombings, internment camps and a modern-day Kristelnacht will be the order of the day, but the recipients will be Muslims instead of Japanese and Jews. Hopefully, the TRULY moderate Muslims (and I know most of them are) will distance themselves from the radicals.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

Viv

Distancing themselves isn't enough. These people are killing other human beings.
Stoning takes place in Islam for adultery. What is the response to terrorism? Isn't terrorism a wee bitty more serious?
OK, I'm not condoning capital punishment. Just making the point that they need a serious response.

Scribbler1

When your culture says stoning people is acceptable, a few activist groups may work to condemn it, but the world pretty much tolerates what goes on within your own borders, especially when these actions are shielded by religion. Not many countries want to mess with religion, especially Islam.
But when these barbaric, subhuman, psychopathic murderers take their nasty business OUTSIDE their borders is what I'm concerned with. The civilized world, being comprised of people whose patience is limited, won't wait too long before they start exterminating whole groups because of imported barbarism.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

Viv

I think you've got something there and why would they have patience and tolerance with people who have a culture which breeds none, or at least shows none to us.
Iran are supposedly talking about nuclear weapon development. If you think the west will sit on their hands waiting for an arab nation to have that ability...I don't think so. If I were in that community, I'd be worried.
The point about stoning is that if such a punishment was introduced to discourage adultery, can it be extended to deter terrorism? It's not an acceptable punishment to me, but adultery is much less serious than stirring up world war 3 and risking the destruction of your entire culture.

Public_Enemy

Let me correct something: Practise of stoning by some muslims doesn't mean it has any relation with Islam. (Yazidis are not muslims but they are practising it too). French are christians and they were using guillotine,but it doesn't mean guillotine is christian. There is no any single relation with stoning and islam, not in Quran, not in mohammed's teachings (as far as I know) etc.. it is an middle eastern tradition and was practised by arabs hundreds of years ago before mohammed.

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Public_Enemy

As for terrorism : What is terrorism and who are terrorists? are my terrorists also terrorists for you? Unfortunately there are a lot of hypocritical approaches towards terrorism that prevents forming a collective front against terrorism.

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