i didn't read all the posts, but i still think these questions are really silly.
Foxmulder said:
(1) Why are you so quiet?
Since the first Israelis were targeted for death by Muslim terrorists blowing themselves up in the name of your religion and Palestinian nationalism, I have been praying to see Muslim demonstrations against these atrocities. Last week's protests in Jordan against the bombings, while welcome, were a rarity. What I have seen more often is mainstream Muslim spokesmen implicitly defending this terror on the grounds that Israel occupies Palestinian lands. We see torture and murder in the name of Allah, but we see no anti-torture and anti-murder demonstrations in the name of Allah.
There are a billion Muslims in the world. How is it possible that essentially none have demonstrated against evils perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam? This is true even of the millions of Muslims living in free Western societies. What are non-Muslims of goodwill supposed to conclude? When the Israeli government did not stop a Lebanese massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982, great crowds of Israeli Jews gathered to protest their country's moral failing. Why has there been no comparable public demonstration by Palestinians or other Muslims to morally condemn Palestinian or other Muslim-committed terror?
when you tell me how i can look at someone who lost his familly in Sabra/Chatila, or lost his children at Quana, and tell him he should lay down his weapons and abandon his fight against israel, I'll be the first to protest against palestinian terrorism.
(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?
there are lots of christian palestinian terrorists, but western governments do a great deal to portray terrorists as evil muslims. After all, it won't make sense for the western people if the terrorists are normal people just fighting for their rights.
(3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?
i know lebanon is a free country, not sure about malaysia
just because we dont have the same concept of freedom doesn't mean muslim countries aren't free.
a simple question: how free is really a us citizen??
(4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?
so many atrocities are commited by the west in the name of democracy and freedom for the sole purpose of Money. Some Muslims commit them because nor the UN nore any other government stands up for them when they ask for their rights
(5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?
not all countries (doesn't seem obvious by the way the question is raised)
extremist christian leaders would have done the same, but the US never brought a christian extremist leader to powwer in these countries.
Hundreds of millions of non-Muslims want honest answers to these questions, even if the only answer you offer is, "Yes, we have real problems in Islam." Such an acknowledgment is infinitely better — for you and for the world — than dismissing us as anti-Muslim.
Islam is not the problem.
but when someone looses his home, money, familly and self respect, islam is the only thing he has left.