Thank you for presenting such a detailed and elaborate explanation on why you had labeled Muslims with such disdain. While your generalization about the entire population is certainly out of mark, the events that you raise issue with are completely valid, and relevant in the present context of how Muslims appear to behave towards the non-Muslims.
Had Muslims been like this for all the 1,400 years that the religion been on this earth? Is this what they were asked to do, by their prophet? Have they always been as vicious, ignorant and ruthless? My study of history does not say that all activities by the Muslims throughout the centuries are entirely without cause for concern. But, one thing seems certain, compared to how Christianity was during its first 1,500 years, Islam was quite peaceful and prosperous during its turn.
Then what changed? Why are Muslims like this today? The most crucial reason that I as someone as a Muslim can think about, is the systematic abuse of power by the current leaders of Muslim countries. Especially the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Every year, more than 4 million Muslims meet in Saudi Arabia where they come together to perform the Hajj. There, they are greeted by a local populace as subdued as any other brutal autocracy as the world has seen. The voice of the moderate educated Muslim who does not think the current Saud family's rule as acceptable is chased down. In their absence, only the voice that remain are of the illiterate fanatics, and they are joined by the grieving family and friends of the moderate educated Muslims.
Sadly, the western countries keep on supporting these regimes for the sake of oil, (for reasons which needs another long write up). This tacit support has helped these existing rulers to mute the voice of the moderate educated Muslims (which in turn adds fuel to the illiterate fanatics' message). Those who talk about peace and ideology are replaced with those who interpret religion to further violence and extremism. This is not an ideal world we live in, and it will not be any more ideal, if the population of the west, living in their protected democratic bubble, think that the problems of the Muslim world are only relevant when a catastrophe like 9/11 happens on their own land, and the only consequence of that is to enforce draconian laws, that goes against the very philosophies of individual freedom and right that their societies are based on.
My wishes and hope is resonated in the last 2 (two) lines of the first chapter of the Quran:
"Guide us to the Straight Path.
The path of those whom Your blessings are upon, not of those who You have cursed nor of those who have gone astray."
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Had Muslims been like this for all the 1,400 years that the religion been on this earth? Is this what they were asked to do, by their prophet? Have they always been as vicious, ignorant and ruthless? My study of history does not say that all activities by the Muslims throughout the centuries are entirely without cause for concern. But, one thing seems certain, compared to how Christianity was during its first 1,500 years, Islam was quite peaceful and prosperous during its turn.
Then what changed? Why are Muslims like this today? The most crucial reason that I as someone as a Muslim can think about, is the systematic abuse of power by the current leaders of Muslim countries. Especially the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Every year, more than 4 million Muslims meet in Saudi Arabia where they come together to perform the Hajj. There, they are greeted by a local populace as subdued as any other brutal autocracy as the world has seen. The voice of the moderate educated Muslim who does not think the current Saud family's rule as acceptable is chased down. In their absence, only the voice that remain are of the illiterate fanatics, and they are joined by the grieving family and friends of the moderate educated Muslims.
Sadly, the western countries keep on supporting these regimes for the sake of oil, (for reasons which needs another long write up). This tacit support has helped these existing rulers to mute the voice of the moderate educated Muslims (which in turn adds fuel to the illiterate fanatics' message). Those who talk about peace and ideology are replaced with those who interpret religion to further violence and extremism. This is not an ideal world we live in, and it will not be any more ideal, if the population of the west, living in their protected democratic bubble, think that the problems of the Muslim world are only relevant when a catastrophe like 9/11 happens on their own land, and the only consequence of that is to enforce draconian laws, that goes against the very philosophies of individual freedom and right that their societies are based on.
My wishes and hope is resonated in the last 2 (two) lines of the first chapter of the Quran:
"Guide us to the Straight Path.
The path of those whom Your blessings are upon, not of those who You have cursed nor of those who have gone astray."