"Islamic terrorism" a misleading term (blood, atheist, POV)

[DontFearMe]

The use of "Islamic terrorism" in the media is a very inaccurate and misleading term. It implies that whatever 'terrorism' they are speaking of is directly related to the religion of Islam. Now, maybe that is why they use the term, or maybe they are just ignorant of the words that they choose.

How is it that everything and anything a Muslim does is because they are Muslim? If I kill a spider it's because I'm muslim, if I dont flush the toilet it must be because I am muslim. How ignorant is that? For example, many are blaming for what happened in Russia the fault of "Islamic terrorists." Um, first of all it is too early to claim anything as no group has claimed responsibility for this yet. Secondly, if you want to blame it on the Chechens, who said all Chechens are Muslims? I mean you dont have to follow any religion at all to do these kinds of things, they can be entirely politically motivated and that is a fact.

People with an agenda against Muslims propagate this lie of, "Its because of religion," to further incite hate against Muslims and their religion. Ok, was WW2 because of religion, or WW1? I mean it is very ridiculous.

To reiterate, using the phrase "Islamic terrorists" is to try to relate terrorism to Islam, which is very ignorant. And by the way what happened in Russia was horrible whoever did it, if they were christian, buddhist, muslim, whatever it doesnt matter one bit. And before you get all hateful and black towards the Chechens, let me remind you that when the world turned their back when Russia killed approx 180,000 Chechens in the early 90s. And many more thousands until today. Funny how that goes unreported in the corporate media. Sickening.

[Mr Spinkles]

Good point DontFearMe, you're right. What is commonly referred to as "Islamic terrorism" may well be perpetrated by Muslims, but that doesn't mean they are doing it for religious reasons. In fact, most international terrorism is not for religious reasons at all, I would say it's mainly political and many people don't realize that international terrorism is also a lucrative business, like organized crime.

[Green Gaia]

I agree with you DontFearMe, I cringe everytime I hear that phrase spoken. It is very misleading and incorrect and only breeds more contempt against Muslims, which I believe is the intention of those who use they phrase. Shame on them.

[Mr Spinkles]

I use the phrase Islamic terrorism for specificity, not to generate contempt against Muslims.

[Jaiket]

Fair point. I'd wager that most terrorist acts by muslims are socially or politically motivated, rather than religious. God makes a nice screen but the roots are possibly things like poverty, inequality etc.

[true blood]

Why aren't the Muslim communities more active in defeating the "Islamic terrorist"?

[Green Gaia]

What makes you think they're not, true blood? Because it isn't covered on the evening news?

[true blood]

I said "more" active. They could certainly do alot more within their communites

[Green Gaia]

Like what?

[Mr Spinkles]

The question I'd like to know is this: do we not see many Muslim groups condemning terrorism because the media refuses to cover it, or because many Muslim groups do not make an effort to publicly condemn it? I know that if I were the head of some kind of atheist organization and "atheist terrorists" blew a bunch of people up, the first thing I would do is call local and national papers and issue a statement formally denouncing the terrorists.