Quote:Abu you have every right to defend your religion, but it’s a losing battle
Well I always like to remain optimistic mantra. I never give up hope that people will eventually wake up to the reality and see things as they are. And if I can contribute in countering the false image of Islam, then I'll try my best to do so. But you could be right in that many here are not interested in knowing. They base their beliefs on their prejudices and seek out anything that can confirm or validate them, whilst completely overlooking anything to the contrary.
Quote:The ideology of Islam as the media portrays it is murderous, even though WW1, WWII, Vietnam, Afghanistan & Iraq were created by Christians and Jews.
Although this was largely the case at the beginning of the "war on terror", the tables have turned a lot since then. There are plenty of 'alternative' media outlets, such as al-Jazeerah and PressTV now broadcasting in English all over the world, so people are seeing that what their media reports is not always the full story. Even our own ABC and a lot of the time the BBC are also giving a lot more balanced coverage too. So the content is there, for those who are not just content with the propaganda of the major Western media outlets.
Quote:It’s the same with Islam – it's corrupted by western interference. Nothing is going to change until extremists from either side are wiped out and that’s not going to happen.
It is definitely true that the West had a major hand in creating and arming and training the resistance groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan who have now turned on them, but as Michael Scheuer (former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit) notes, the "extremist" Muslims appear extreme because they're resisting our invasions into their land, they were never the "unthinkable, gotta wipe them out before they destroy the whole world, extremists" we now proclaim them to be, when they were fighting the Soviets on our behalf. So perhaps they're not as extreme as we're led to believe. All of the 'evidence' used to show us they are extreme is based on their reactions to our invasions of their lands... surely the one defending his own home has a right to be a little 'extreme'? I hardly think any of the good Aussie Nationalists here would be sitting at home watching the cricket whilst the Chinese stormed into Australia to invade it.