The main problem are extremists on both side of our religion Christianity and Islam e.g. we have extremest called Taliban who are condiderd as terrorist by US but on other hand people who keep same mindset in US establishment and general population are called right wing and if they do anything similar to Muslim terrorist then they are called Insane or person with mental problem. e.g. Bush war crimes and white supremacist terrorist activity in Sikh temple. so please this double standard has have made american law enforcement doubt full.
I agree that extremists are the problem on both sides! There are extremists in every religion, and in every country. There is always someone who is a little bit insane, no matter what you believe in, or where you are from! A few things... The white supremacist shooting in the Sikh temple was horrible. I believe the government deemed that "domestic terrorism", actually. At the very least, all the news programs were calling it "domestic terrorism". There are also other cases in the US, were a US citizen has committed terrorism. The Oklahoma City bombing is a good example. Another are bombings of abortion clinics and killings of doctors who perform abortions - performed by Christian extremists. The acts of violence are all horrible, but when the attack is against Americans for being Americans, that is what is typically seen as "terrorism", even though these other examples should also be considered terrorism too. You are right, there is some double-standard going on, but I think there are many in the US who are aware of that, and are trying to change their perceptions of what "terrorism" is.
Second please check out the opinions of your two main parties repulicans and deomcrates on issue of in favour of or against Muslims and you will be shocked what they think about Muslim all over over the world including Americans Muslim. so first they need take out discrimination factor out to sort out the problems of other countries they seems to worry about other countries and own home is ful of racist and Christians extremist.
Yeah, the parties say a lot of things. The Republicans mainly try to get the Christian votes, so they sometimes say things that appeal to Christian extremists. Of course, most Christians are very nice, normal people, but sometimes the extremist Christians make the normal Christians look bad in this country too. Anyway, when the politicians say things that are racist or bigoted against Muslims, it is usually to try to get the crazy people to vote for them. The politicians will usually not actually DO the racist things they talk about. It's just to try to win favor with some of the extremists. Most Americans are very against racism and do not like any of that kind of talk.
Media needs a right direction, i believe in free media and we have better free media then US in Pakistan. In your part of the world media clearly takes sides even the taking side clearly seems wrong e.g. FOX news i know liberals don't listen to them and mostly make fun of them but have you ever noticed the amount of people listen to glen beck and bill O realy nonsense. they work as proxy to change stuff and change general public opinions even they are wrong so i think 99 percent of Americans needs to come out and take the **** of them because they took u into wars because of their propaganda, they are responsible for strong unlawful alliance with Israhell even Americans knows israhell is nothing and u cant take any beneficent from them its like throwing money in never ending well. I'm saying media on right direction because before we Muslims became ur enemy ur media and right wingers made the situation which we knows as cold war which has led all these Taliban and al-Qaeda into exitense in 80s.
I agree here. As far as I understand, this has been a pretty recent (last 20 years) development in American Journalism. It is definitely a problem here. Most Americans are aware of this, and many are trying to stop the polarizing of the media. Especially with the internet, there is a lot of change happening with the media right now. I will say that in my opinion, the republicans (the right) and Fox News/Glenn Beck/Bill O'Riley have been far more invested in swaying public opinion over the last decade than the democrats (the left). People here in the US have definitely become aware of it, and there has been a lot of push back in the last few years against it.
Law to respect religious personalities its doesnt mean that no critism, critism is allowed for discussion but making films with nasty character doesnt seems to be for debating purpose. After US destroying whole world by ileagal wars in last ten years US talking about peace protest. common sense film-makers are extremist, there is a difference between criticising for debate and provoking propaganda for violence. it seems it was propaganda to provoke violence. there are thousands of books criticise Islam and prophet's but no one Muslim take that offensive because there are there for debate even in Muslim countries libraries e.g. Christopher hitchkens books. debate is always on the best personality if you want to hear for debcate purpose are Ahmed Dedaat and Zakir Naik. they good Muslims with intelligent skills to debate.
The guy who made this movie is an extremist. Very very few people in the US share his ideas or share his views. Almost everyone is very respectful of other cultures and religions, and that includes Muslims/Islam! There will always be those few people who say stupid things and make stupid movies. However, it is a very strong American belief that anyone be able to say what they want, even if it is stupid, or racist, or mean. The idea here, is that as long as the words don't lead to physical harm to others (a common example would be yelling "FIRE!!!" in a crowded building, which leads to people getting trampled and pushed trying to get out), then there is no problem with it. So, while this movie is certainly insulting and rude, it is allowed, and people in the US just roll their eyes and lose respect for the guy who made the movie. That pastor from Florida who burned a Quran is the same - he's an extremist insane person, but he can say/do what he wants as long as it doesn't infringe upon other people's freedoms. The price those two pay here is that they are labelled as extremists, and no body takes them seriously. No body likes them anymore, and they lose their respect. But you are right, an intelligent discussion would be better!
US need a revolution in their political system because US population is divided very badly on every issue because brainwashing of red necks by media giants as i already said FOX and its parenting company. have you ever notices how fatal it is when Republicans terrorist comes into power there is always destruction. e.g. last government was made by republicans and look what happened two wars and millions of people died so you guys needs to come out on roads and destroy these corporations who are running your country and effecting us as well because your policies only made after agreement with large coporations without them your governemnt can't make any policies.e.g. Africa vs Middles east and where US is spending more and for what.
I agree here, personally. What the US needs is more education! We need to get out there and meet more people from other countries and learn more languages so that we realize that other people in the world are just like us! We all just want to live good lives with people we love! Nobody wants hate and wars and terrorism! Nobody wants that, but I think a lot of the more uneducated "red-necks" just don't know enough about the rest of the world. There is also a lot of fear in that part of the country that Muslims are going to somehow destroy America and turn America into a country with Sharia law. Of course, that's silly, but there are people who believe that. And again, you're right - some of the right-wing media sources make the situation worse when they promote fear. Personally, I think the right-wing media in this country is a huge problem... I am really hoping that if Obama wins the election in November, that the republicans will abandon their propaganda strategy and become more moderate. We shall see....
Lobbying had caused several problems which led us Pakistanis into this trouble where we now have enemy called Taliban because in 80s and still now sorry to say particular group has very much influenced ur lobbying system because of money and they are called Zionist not Jews because Jews are normal. look at MITT Romney childish behaviour he doesn't care about US public but more for Israelis.
I do not know too much about the "zionist lobby" here in the US. I don't know too much about the US/Israel relationship, and why we defend them so fervently. I know that there seems to be a general agreement in this country that Israel should be able to exist. But, as far as I know (and like I said, I am not well-verse on this topic, just explaining what I see), the support for Israel is defensive in nature. In other words, I don't any ideas that Israel should expand or anything like that, just that it should have a right to exist. This is just what I observe. The topic of Israel is not a big one over here in the US.
Another long post! Hopefully this answered your comments/questions! Again, I am not trying to debate things here - just trying to answer questions and explain stuff! (bigsmile)
