Why aren't Muslims speaking out? Options

[radhikaeatsraman]

I was having a discussion with my uncle and my father about the current situation with terrorism and the Middle East. During the discussion, I kept emphasizing that the majority of Muslims are good people and probably don't support terrorists and their actions. But then they said that they're all keeping quiet, and that by doing that, they're indirectly supporting it. By ignoring it, it's going to continue.

Then, they went on to say that in order for the terrorists to commit these acts, they need money for weapons and other equipment. Who provides it? Right after 9/11, millions of Muslims across the US were caught having connections to al-Qaeda, and many of them are in prison for it.

So why aren't "good Muslims" speaking out? Is it because of fear, or are they quietly supporting it?

[TeeNage_WasTeLan...]

You state that if someone refuses to believe in a law (or in the enforcer of a law), they should not have to follow it because it's their own opinion. Think about this one for a second. If you don't agree with the law, or with the person who makes/enforces/interprets the law, do you have the right to ignor the law? Absolutely not.

Just like the person in the analogy, your refusal to accept the legitimacy of established law does not make it any less legitimate. Even if a person doesn't believe that dealing drugs is illegal, or that the police doesn't exist, at the end of the day, the person is going to be in jail.

The argument on priests' pediphila is irrelevant. Let's do away with that and focus on this.

Basically you are completely ignoring any possibility that the God outlined in Christianity may not actually exist, that its possible there is another god in another religion. So to me, this analogy you give is not really too efficient. It has glaring flaws. The God you follow is not definitive. Government is. You cannot sit there and say that God is the same as government, because what if Christianity is wrong? What if Islam really is the governing religion of life? Then I guess according to you, you've been breaking laws your whole life and at the end of the day you are going to jail. You can't decide what government to follow in a country but you can decide what religion you do, and each religion has its own set of laws. Just like you wouldn't expect someone living in Bangladesh to follow American laws, you shouldn't expect someone who follows Islam to practice Christian beliefs.