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Visavi · Aug 13, 2006, 03:56 PM

I sort of understand why they would be offended, but there will always be people who are offended no matter how politically correct someone tries to be.

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Some people like be called "black" but hate being called "African American" b/c of the whole "Do I look like I'm from Africa to you? I was not born in Africa! My parents were not born in Africa!" And vice versa when you run into people who think that being called black is offensive "Excuse me? Does my skin look BLACK to you?"

There's also the whole "Native American" and "American Indian" argument. People who believe in calling them "Native Americans" b/c the term "indian" is insulting get a bunch of gruff from non-indian people saying, "Hey, I was born in America, that means I am a Native American." And then you have people with India origins who were born in America that occasionally like to cause a little confusion, but these scenarios are more rare around my region than the "black" vs. "African American" argument over political correctness.

It sounds like a political correctness problem to me--people of the Islamic faith are worried that this statement may look bad on them as a whole--but maybe there's more to it.

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Visavi · Aug 13, 2006, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by Rock

To be fair, Christianity didn't rise up in outrage over the IRA, Christian terrorist groups in Northeast India, the Oklahoma City bombing or Eric Robert Rudolph, either.

There are extremists and fanatics to be found in every religion, so why do you think it should be up to all the members of the religion to rise up against people who use their personal beliefs as a false pretense to terrorism? More importantly, what makes you think that many Muslims aren't actually disgusted at these terrorist acts?

You know, how about you stop over-generalizing just for once, here?

Actually, wasn't the OKC bombing more of a "White Power! Turner Diaries Rules!" kind of event rather than a Christian one? And yes, I do agree that there are Muslims that are disgusted over their behavior and even believe that what terrorists are doing is against the Qu'ran.

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