TheBoost said:

Akwat Kbrana said:

zombie84 said:

Yup.

And after all the homebrew terrorist attacks over the last 12 months, I would say it's bordering on racist to automatically assume this is related to any Muslim organization.

Islam is a religion, not a race.

True, but in American discourse, Islam is intrisniscally tied up with Arab relations.

When we blame Muslims, no one is thinking of Indonesia or Mauritania.

Technically speaking, there isn't even such a thing as race. It's a 19th century fantasy, basically. Most people don't even know that but I think everyone knows what I meant.

Personally, my point is that there really isn't any reason to begin with the assumption that Al Queda or another Muslim terrorist organization has anything to do with it. It's not an unreasonable assumption of course--it's not like someone is saying the Nazi's are responsible for it, which would be legitimately silly--but frankly I'm tiring of Islamophobia, and automatically pointing the finger at "middle eastern terrorists" comes across that way Warbler, so no offense personally. Middle eastern terrorists have almost never harmed Americans on American soil compared to fellow Americans doing terrible things like shooting up schools and military bases, so I don't know why people continue to automatically assume it's the handiwork of people from the middle east when there is no evidence to suggest as much and documented history that would more likely lead one to believe it's a fellow citizen. Every time something bad happens people blame "terrorists", which they really mean middle easterners since that is who they are picturing when they say that word, but almost every single time that turns out to not be the case.