mozzaok,
Quote:It is time for muslims to make up their minds, and choose what side they are on, and who represents them
Your pathetic echoing of Bush's "Us or them" ultimatum does you no justice mozza.
Quote:When we see muslim clerics pronouncing attacks on terror groups, as attacks on Islam, and muslims everywhere, then we have them aligning themselves with the likes of Al Quaeda, et al.
This is just nonsense. It's akin to saying "If you don't like our attacks on you, then you must be a terrorist, or terrorist supporter". The West has quite clearly been attacking Muslims, physically and ideologically. Not only has the West been waging physical wars, as mentioned above by Mantra, but they've been waging an ideological war also, which involves attacking the belief system of Islam and attempting to incite mistrust and fear against Muslims, and the results can be seen in some of the nutcase posters here. Even if we accept the attack on Afghanistan as a targeted attempt to get rid of someone who attacked America (of which absolutely no evidence was provided), the fact is that tens of thousands of innocent Muslim civilians were the ones who ended up being killed, Bin Laden, the man supposedly already guilty (without trial), has not been killed. Likewise the Taliban had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, and the US government hasn't even declared them a terrorist group, yet so many of them have been attacked and slaughtered, for no reason other than they're Muslims.
Quote:Yet when they have people accuse muslims of giving support to these types of terror groups, even if only tacitly, then we see, and hear their outraged indignation voiced belligerently.
It's purely guilt by association. Hence the perception it's a war against our religion.