FBI sees all Muslims as terrorists

A stunning story, just stunning.

Now we know the CIA AND FBI track people--AMERICAN citizens--because of their religious beliefs, without any evidence whatsoever of involvement of criminal activity.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/report-fbi-training-materials-ordinary-muslims-violent-184341036.html

Man gets 25 years in jail for "South Park" threats

From the article:

"A Virginia man who encouraged the murder of Matt Stone and Trey Parker over an episode of "South Park" that portrayed the Muslim prophet Muhammed dressed as a bear was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday.

"Zachary Chesser had written in multiple Internet posts over a four-month period last year that the South Park creators  should "wind up like Theo Van Gogh," who was murdered by a radical Muslim because he objected to the Dutch filmmaker's negative portrayal of Islamic society.

"But Stone and Parker were only a piece of the case against Chesser, who also tried on two occasions to join al-Shabab, a terrorist group in Somalia, and encouraged like-minded people on the Internet to leave suspicious packages in public places in the U.S. so that if and when real bombs were planted they'd go unnoticed.

"Chesser also encouraged violence against cartoonists who were planning to participate in "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day," which was a plan -- that never came to fruition -- created to show support for Parker and Stone and for free speech. He even supplied the necessary contact information for various cartoonists."

This is another case of the media reporting on a Muslim who is out of touch with his own religion. Look it up, it is not forbidden to depict the prophet Muhammad. In fact, Muhammad only said depicting him put him above God, and as a prophet of God, his image should not be shown because it takes attention away from God. Showing his image is idolatry but is not punishable by death.

Perhaps this explains why most Americans are uninformed about the realities of Islam. The media reinforce falsehoods without providing needed context to explain why these kinds of things occur.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110225/us_nm/us_southpark

The context of Muslim extremism in the US

Today on NPR's "Fresh Air" a UNC professor was interviewed about his new book dealing with Muslim extremists in the US. The book is called The Missing Matryrs.

The title alludes to the fact that there are so few Muslim terrorists, as opposed to the many that we have been led to believe exist.

In the book, author Charles Kurzman shows that out of 140,000 murders in the United States since 9/11, Islamist terrorists have killed a total of 33. And about two-thirds of those were killed in a single event, the Fort Hood shooting in Texas.

So the book does a good job of providing the context of violent attacks by Muslims in the US relative to your everyday. normal murders.

The book also shows that: "Of the 150,000 people who die each day, worldwide, Islamist militants account for fewer than fifty fatalities--and only ten per day outside of the hotspots of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan." Again, this is very good context for the threat posed to us and the rest of the world.

A member of the House of Representatives from New York plans to hold hearings soon to show that Muslims do not cooperate with US authorities in terrorism investigations and thus they pose a threat to our nation. Yet, Kurzman shows that about half of all information used to disrupt terrorist attacks in the US has come from Muslim communities.

Somehow, in spite of the small threat posed to us, Americans remain afraid of Muslims and think Islam is the enemy.

This book--a form of MEDIA--will hopefully go a long way toward calming us of our unnecessary fears.

http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/