Fanatics are the problem, not Muslims themselves.
Fanatics are
only a problem because they are enabled by largely silent multitudes of moderates and sort-of-moderates, though.
Every community has its wackos. Not every community gives them enough ear and prestige to make them an actual danger.
There have been religious and non religious terrorists and people act as if them being Muslim has something to do with it.
Guess what? It does have something to do with it.
If they weren't Muslim, they wouldn't be terrorists, right?
That is a bit speculative, as par of course for what-if scenarios.
What changes are you proposing so that those specific people would somehow not be Muslims? For that matter, which people are we talking about here?
Has it occurred to others that maybe they are just lunatics and fanatics and that their race and religion didn't make them that way.
Of course it did. We have a duty not to ignore the evidence and the facts, though. While obviously not determinant, Muslim beliefs
do play a role. It is immature and irresponsible to pretend otherwise.
They used Islam and twisted it to suit their agenda.
As did their critics. As does everyone with whatever beliefs they inherited from their cultures, unless they decide to convert to something else.
That usually does not result in murderous fanaticism, though.
Honestly, I have to wonder whether you are consciously avoiding acknowledging the correlation between Islamic teachings and dangerous fanaticism. You are doing a pretty good job at pretending to be utterly unaware of it.
That does not make Islam bad or Muslims bad.
I would say that a doctrine that fails to teach its adherents to be respectful of diversity of belief is by some meaningful definitions of "bad" indeed bad.
If people want to have this mentality, you may as well just say all religious people are bad everywhere because you will see fanatics and lunatics is just about every religious group.
Are you asking me to ignore known trends and correlations without giving me a reason to?
Even Buddhism has some aggressive people there, even the Sikhs too. There have been Sikh, Jewish, Christian terrorists, but I guess only Muslim terrorists exist right?
Obviously not. And no one makes such a claim. So why are you acting as if anyone did?
Almost every religious group is going to have some bad people in there. There's only a small amount of religions that are very bad or just flat out evil though but a lot of them are small cults most people have never even heard of.
Sort of true, but besides the point.
That is arguable at best.
and those people don't even realize they are being manipulated into despising Muslims, when in fact they should be focusing on the real enemy though.
Which would be...?
