Not many of them are about Asian-Americans though. Asian movies by Asians in Asia? Sure. But Asian-American experience? You have, ABC’s Fresh off the Boat (which is pretty damn good), and.... ?

It has to be said that there are a great many more Muslims who assimilate to Western cultures without taking up drinking, sex before marriage, and other things Muslims in general consider to be wrong. I don’t think we should try to defend Muslims in the West against bigots by saying that hey, some of them turn away…

Nobody shrugged their shoulders. Mass murder is covered in equal amounts no matter the ethnicity of the killer. Youre changing reality to adhere to your beliefs.

No.

Of course she’s being intentionally obtuse. Welcome to Splinter.

They all hold grudges and hate the West? All 1.8 billion of them? What a lot of grudge.

It’s also uniquely American to willfully reject knowledge of other cultures.

It is if your a non Muslim in a Muslim majority country. During the Iranian revolution, they were shouting it all night and day. Before, during, and after violence. Being Jewish, they didn’t sleep for days, scared they would come for them next.

The conversion insistence in the comments is frightening. No problem bashing xtianity but somehow we must all do our part to responsibly learn Islam backwards and forwards lest we be ignorant bigots.

When I think about abortion clinics being shot up/blown up, in fact, it is NOT brown people I’m thinking of, but the nutjob fundamentalist Christians.

I don’t support any religion that throws gays off of rooftops and oppresses women. Stunning how many so called progressives are wringing their hands over so called “islamophobia” while bashing xtianity.

Then they need to get that message out to that “tiny extreme faction” stat.

Somehow that fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction has managed to hold the entire world hostage for 16+ years, throw in 8 more if you want to count WTC 93, throw in a decade more if you want to add Hussein in there.

Context is everything my friend!

I mean, in a way Allahu Akbar has entered the general English lexicon, it just has entered with an extremely negative definition compared to those ones above.

Has his motivation come out yet. I think they caught him this morning, but haven’t heard anything else.

If a cop shouts “stop resisting”, then hits you with his nightstick, by the fourth or fifth time he does it, you are going to start to flinch every time you hear the words. It is not an intellectual reaction, it is instinctive. It also works if the exclamation is only occasionally accompanied by the attack.

If the only reason we know it is terrorism, then that is the social norm. Which I would argue is the case for 97% of the US.

See, when white people hear ‘Allahu Akbar’, they don’t translate that to ‘God is Great’. They translate that to, ‘The Muslim interpretation of God is great’. That’s threatening, to them.

Yeah and if we had Christians driving trucks into crowds screaming “JESUS LOVES YOU,” I am sure people would be scared of that phase.