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I don’t know if most Muslims hate Americans, but many Muslims tend to support ideas that are against American ideals.
Opinions polls carried out by British Media have shattered the myth that only a minority of Muslims are extremists.
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[li]20% of British Muslims sympathize with 7/7 London bombers[/li][li]Forty per cent of the British Muslims surveyed said they backed introducing sharia in parts of Britain, while 41 per cent opposed it.[/li][/QUOTE]
I’m rather loathe to dip my oar in this thread, but I’ll merely note that your link actually undercuts your claims about British Muslims being radicals.
To your first point, here’s what the Toryagraph actually said.
I notice you completely ignored the fact that according to your source 99% of all British Muslims opposed the atrocity which hardly seem consistent with your claim about how dangerous and radicalized British Muslims are.
As for the fact that 20% had sympathy with the “feelings and motives” of the suicide bombers, I can certainly understand why many people, particularly British citizens effected by the bombing would be outraged by that, but keep in mind that having sympathy with the “feelings and motives” of people who’ve committed violent acts is hardly the same as condoning such actions.
Lots of people strongly opposed racism in the US and sympathized very much with the feelings and motives of the Black Panther Party, but that certainly doesn’t mean they supported Eldridge Cleaver when he deliberately kidnapped and raped a number of white women because he believed it was “an insurrectionary act”.
Similarly, lots of people sympathized with the goals of either the ANC or the IRA without supporting the actions taken by guerrillas of such groups that have been reasonably called terrorism.
Finally, what were the motivations of the Irgun when they blew up the King David hotel and killed vastly more civilians than the 7/7 bombers. The answer of course is that they were Zionists, like the vast majority of American and British Jews then and now.
Did that mean that most British and American Jews or even Israeli ones(who would eventually elect the leader PM) for that matter support the bombing?
Of course not.
Now, the 7/7 bombers were motivated by the fact that they opposed the invasion of Iraq by the UK and the US. Lots of people can sympathize with such feelings without supporting what they did.
As for the fact that “41% of all British Muslims” supported imposing Sharia in parts of the UK, again that’s a really vague statement which can mean a lot of different things.
Different Muslims have different ideas on what is and isn’t Sharia.
I know a lot of people think that most Muslim countries are theocracies, but of the 60 plus Muslim countries only about three(Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran) could be called theocracies with perhaps one or two more. In most of the MENA though there is some merging of government and religion which for the most part means some vague phrase in the Constitution like “all laws herein are inspired by the Hoy Quran”(from Ba’athist Syria) or having marriage and family law handled by religious courts(which is the case in that famous Jihadist state Israel).
Now personally, I rather that not be the case in Israel or Morocco, but just because 41% of all British Muslims want Sharia in parts of the UK it doesn’t mean they want adulterers stoned to death(and only a handful of Muslim countries do have things like that).
I think the best comparison might be objecting to a separation of Church and State. The vast majority of European countries don’t have separation of Church and State the way the US, Turkey, and France does, but that hardly means the UK is a Christian version of Iran.
Now just as opposition to separation of Church and State can mean supporting having a government like the UK without becoming a theocracy, supporting some sharia law in parts of the UK can mean wanting to be more like Israel(which does practice Sharia law) rather than becoming like Afghanistan under the Taliban.