This is how I feel!

There are but you can't rely on the media to show you this. But the terrorists don't represent ALL muslism, so why should one Muslim have to justify his religion because the terrorists use the religion in their war. The average Muslim wants nothing to do with the terrorists. It would be like a Christian organisation bombing people in the name of Christ, and me and other Christians having to condemn every action, and justify my religion to everyone. I'm not going to bother, I would rather give no acknowledgement at all to the sick people. Here is a long list of important Muslims condemning terrorism: http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php

Thank you 4ftfingers.... thank you

So you rather stay silent and let this terrorists murder away? If someone belonging to my religion would do this, I could not stay silent.

By speaking up, representing the americans, did the war stop? Will that mean there will be no more war in the country or the world for that matter?

The americans that are against the war speak out against it openly and the ones that are for it also speak about it openly. Muslims don't. They don't speak out against the radicals and the radicals don't admit very often they are radicals. So the difference is, americans do speak up and many of them try to change things and help get our troops home.

The Americans against the war are speaking out. What about that mother camping out by Bush's home in Texas? And as for 'you don't go to someone's home and destroy them'...I suppose we INVITED those people to crash planes and kill all those people? We didn't start all this crap!

I do not know what has made you guys think I am against America. NOOOO, not at all. I am certainly not against Americans, on the contrary I believe Americans are human beings like us. Having feelings and emotions. Human beings who love,respect,fear and hate exactly the way we (Muslims) do. Please for God's sake!! stop misunderstanding me. I am not against any of you Americans. I am against the policies of the American government which has led the average Americans into believing that Muslims are against their country. I want you guys to start thinking for yourselves instead. Please look into your past. At the contributions Muslims did to your country and to the whole world in general. www.cyberistan.org/islamic/ www.cyberistan.org/islamic/index.htm#americas I am not here to justify what wrong some Muslims might have done in your country. But you should stop generalizing it and start looking at it as their own acts. Pleas stop thinking Islam is against your country. It sould be SOME people but not the whole religion. Please try to remember before Islam it was the Socialism and The Soviet union that the American government were afraid of. And before that it was Hitler and Naziism. Please think for yourself. Why is that everybody is against America. Could it not be the other way round, America has been against them all?

Naseem, nobody asks you to choose between islam and america. You can be a muslim and a proud american, bit judging by your posts, you don't seem to think that is possible. So if one can't be a muslim and american, then they shouldn't be here. If you can't adapt to a countries culture without losing your own, you have no place there.

If you know Riptide posts 'hate filled' topics, why do you keep coming to them?

I do wish they would show stuff like this on national tv. If there were a bunch of terorists in one of them muslim countries blowing stuff up in the name of Jesus, do you think they would let any christian live? I think this country has been more then tolerant and it's time to step up to the plate and be watchful and vigilant. Screw political correctness, it has gotten us nowhere.

Those are the ones that stand up for what's right, but they are few and far in between. 12,000 out about 1.5 billion non radical muslims is a drop in the bucket, but it's a start and if the rest of them would stand up to the radicals, the radicals wouldn't have a chance in hell.

You keep saying why dont they stand up look at it from these guys point of view I was in the area when Bush had his meeting with community leaders in Dearborn Michigan and I recall them shouting Saddam has to go and things like that. Now most of the very same ones that were there during the meeting are under surveillance like wire taps(which was illegal). I can see exactly why they feel this way. Its easy to look at one side of the coin but its another thing to look at both sides of where people are coming from. You hear the far right shouting things like boot them out and you look at our past history and what was done to japanese americans during WW2 and than say well how come they are arent saying more? More importantly when you are arrested for something you make front page of every news paper in america as being a terrorist but when you are let go they post a retraction on the last page in small letters.

Well now that I read http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1126562.aspx I guess I understand your not filled with hatred your just a regular comedian want to be right?

matrixx I appreciate your voice to mediate... they just don't get it do they?

We don't get it because we don't agree with you? You see, this is the very attitude that turns me off about muslims. Instead of debating and trying to get to the bottom of things, you either deflect or try to cram your opinion down other peoples throats, Everybody is wrong and you and the koran are right. As long as these attitudes persist, there won;t ever be any real debating,compromise or understanding.

fidainc: Anybody blinded by prejudice and hate won't get anything be it muslim, jew or christian. Riptide: I don't have time to respond to all of your discussions but one thing is sure that you have particular hate against Islam, very typical of some christians (not all, rather not majority). It's not surprising, as some christians tend to be very judgmental, hateful and try to shove down their feelings and beliefs down other people's throats. Not all chrisitans are like that, some of my christian friends are great people. that's why I don't generalize it for whole christianity but some christians do have a habit of generalizing some people's acts to whole religion. that's a difference.

Yup, but you know the news will never show that, because they like to keep things hush hush. A lot of muslims think, that the news here is trying to make them look bad, when they are actually with holding a lot of info from us.