Opinion of Muslims

[AlonzoMourning23]

What is your opinion of Muslims as a whole?

[Cobra]

I would say I’m pretty neutral to somewhat negative, all Muslims are not all the same just as all people are not the same. There seems to be a higher number of highly religious and sometimes fanatically Muslims that will fight and die for their cause as opposed to some other groups. Radical Islam has been the main threat and fear of most Americans since 9-11. Those radical Muslim groups have attacked and will continue to try an attack us but there are a lot of Muslims out there, American Muslims that are faithful citizens and non-violent so you can't really paint them with the same brush as radical Islamic terrorists.

All religions can be bad taken to the extreme and I think that's what the radicals do to Islam. I don't believe it’s that much worse a religion compared to others or that Muslims as a whole are that much worse people.Â*Â*

[kanyon40]

I agree with Cobra in that it is hard to come to an informed opinion about a non-extremist terrorist Muslim, because it is the extremist terrorists we always see. The one problem I do have is that one of the reasons we can find the more moderate Muslims is because they refuse to come out in numbers to denounce the radical terrorists. This suggests (though it may not mean) that they aren't actually against the terrorists' actions. But, unfortunately, it makes it hard to put a friendly face to the concept. The longer we go without seeing it, the harder it will be for people to believe that the non-extremists actually exist. (We might take the bad name that Christians have gotten from the crusades up through the Wars of Religion, a name which has been impossible for the religion to shake despite such violence not being a frequent part of Christianity today.) If we don't start hearing some moderate Muslim voices in large numbers, the non-Muslim world will eventually decide that there is no value in Islam at all and write it off. It would be sad to see so many people completely written off like this.

[dsanthony]

I would say I’m pretty neutral to somewhat negative, all Muslims are not all the same just as all people are not the same. There seems to be a higher number of highly religious and sometimes fanatically Muslims that will fight and die for their cause as opposed to some other groups. Radical Islam has been the main threat and fear of most Americans since 9-11. Those radical Muslim groups have attacked and will continue to try an attack us but there are a lot of Muslims out there, American Muslims that are faithful citizens and non-violent so you can't really paint them with the same brush as radical Islamic terrorists.

All religions can be bad taken to the extreme and I think that's what the radicals do to Islam. I don't believe it’s that much worse a religion compared to others or that Muslims as a whole are that much worse people.Â*Â*



The majority of muslims have a medieval world view. While most are not terrorists, they do have a worldview which makes their religious views dominate their lives. Thus they often support repression--or outright violence as in the case of the muslim cartoon wars. In most muslim countries, the rights of women are strongly curtailed.

I feel about muslims the way I would feel about a group of medieval christians. They are dangerous to modern society.

[Mayberry]

I could care less about them if they would just keep to themselves. I don't care about anyone's religious views, as long as they keep them to themselves. It just seems that no one wants to keep to themselves anymore. Christians run around trying to "save" everyone, Catholics want to convert the entire planet, Radical Muslims want to destroy the planet (or at least it's non-Muslim inhabitants). Mind your own business, be happy with what you've got, and let folks decide what they want for themselves. I think there was a reason we were all separated by continents before.