5 Myths and the 5 Truths Behind "Islamic Terrorism"

5 Myths and the 5 Truths Behind "Islamic Terrorism"
So today I was casually searching through my twitter feed and I see something about ISIS and all the comments say "All Muslims are terrorists! Send them back!" or the occasional "Fucking towel heads need to die!" (not being racist, just quoting what the comment said). It saddens me to see the Islamic community get so much hate over these terror attacks that have been happening. Today, i'm going to expose the myths and tell the truths about these terror groups. Please note that I am not a Muslim myself, so I am not an expert on the Qu'ran. Let's get right into this



MYTHS



1. All Muslims are terrorists.



This is completely and utterly false. In fact, Islam is one of the most peaceful religions in the world and also the fastest growing. If every Muslim was a terrorist, all the other religions would be extinct. In fact, out of the estimated one billion Muslims in this world, less than 1% (.000697 or something like that) identify as extremists.



2. Muslim terrorists always kill any non Muslim.



This is also false. In fact, terror groups like ISIS kill Muslims ALL THE TIME. Their cause isn't to preserve the whole entire Muslim community, it's to preserve their believe in Sharia law (I think I spelled that right). Muslim terror groups kill innocent lives because they don't like one thing, modernization. Internet, newer and faster cars, technologically advanced homes, advanced school systems, girls wearing more revealing clothing, all are apart of this idea of modernization in which Islamic terror groups hate. They want to resort back to the older days of Sharia law where women are oppressed and there is no such thing as modernization, everything would be the same as it was when the prophet Muhammad was alive. Extremists will go as far as to KILL innocent civilians that they believe are "changing with the times". That is why peaceful Muslims are being killed.



3. America is the reason we have Islamic terror groups



It irritates me when I read comments from people of different countries saying "America is the reason we have Islamic terror groups! It's their government's fault!" This is only 1% true. Islamic terrorism was created BEFORE Americans even set foot on middle eastern soil. This is how Islamic terrorism was created. I don't know the details and exact dates so bear with me here. A guy from the middle east came to the United States and saw how modernized it was compared to the middle east. He hated it and everything that had to do with modernization because of his strict belief in the Qu'ran.



5 Myths and the 5 Truths Behind "Islamic Terrorism"

When he went back to his home country, he wrote books about his experience in the U.S, which sold a lot of copies and moved a lot of Muslims to believe that modernization was bad. Because of this, citizens didn't trust their American-backed leaders and riots formed to remove them and for the leaders who the CIA believed was incapable of running a country, was removed, which sparked outrage by the public who believed that MODERNIZATION was bad, not America itself. This lead to stuff like the Iranian crisis in 1979 and the formation of these terror groups. Eventually, people started realizing that it was stupid to hate on modernization because it's a part of evolution and people who hated on modernization (I.e. Islamic terror groups) became the minority.



Now, the 1% of the reason why it's america's fault is because we gave the terror groups weapons and training. This was because of our fear of communism during the world war and the Soviet Union was trying to spread it's communism to the middle east and terror groups didn't like communism (the enemy of my enemy is our friend theory). Since terror groups like Bin Laden's Al Qaeda wasn't a threat back then, we gave them weapons and training to kick the Soviets out, which worked. So because of doing that, we beefed up the terror groups that now hate us, but we never created them. So stop blaming America for the creation of these Islamic terror groups.



4. America is the only target for Islamic terror groups



This is also false. If America was the only target, then why did we have terror attacks in England, France, Belgium, and all over the middle east? It's cause we aren't the ONLY target. Like i said before, these "Islamic terror groups" (notice how put it in quotation marks, because they really don't represent Islam, but they kinda do, I'll explain later) want to eliminate modernization. America isn't the only place in the world that modernization occurs. Actually it occurs all over the world (except certain countries like North Korea), so basically most countries, with the exception of a few, are a target for terror groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Scary thing right? Well this next point i'll talk about may soothe your nerves



5. Terror attacks are common



Terror attacks are very rare. I'm not going to go into statistics about how rare terror attacks are, but they are rare. Yes, they are scary. Things like the Orlando night club shooting make us wonder when the next attack will be and how scary it will be when it happens, but these attacks don't happen often.


5 Myths and the 5 Truths Behind "Islamic Terrorism"

TRUTHS



1. Islamic terror groups do SOMEWHAT represent Islam.



Despite what avid Muslims say, that "ISIS and other terror groups don't represent Islams at all!", They actually somewhat do, yet not really (I know i'm making it sound confusing). The leaders of these terror groups are Muslims, but they are MISGUIDED Muslims who believe that we must have Sharia law and no modernization to keep the religion alive and well. The militants they recruit, however, are mainly not Muslim.



In fact, terror group recruiters prefer it that the recruits AREN'T Muslim, because if they were, they would know that what they are doing is backwards. So these recruits are naive men and women who believe what they are doing represents Islam, because that is what their manipulative leaders are telling them when in reality it doesn't represent Islam at all. Islamic terror groups do read the Qu'ran and even recite some passages from the Qu'ran, which would somewhat make them Islamic, but for the wrong reasons.



2. This "war on terror" is never ending



This is more of an opinion coming from me. I believe that this war on terror will never end. Here's why. It takes years to kill of a terror group. You have to find where their base of operations are, their training camps, and other secret locations that the terror groups may have. Then, you gotta send troops to scope those places out and see if they are legit. This process takes probably about a year to a year and a half to do because they have to make sure it's legit so that innocent lives aren't lost. Then, you gotta take out the leaders so that they can start the process of becoming a corrupt terror group with no leader or a weak leader. This whole things takes YEARS to do.



5 Myths and the 5 Truths Behind "Islamic Terrorism"

The U.S has been fighting Al Qaeda since 2001 and Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, was killed in 2011. That is a 10 year difference. After that Al Qaeda faded into the dust. They are still a terror group and still do terror stuff, but aren't as powerful as they were back in 2001. ISIS is even harder because of their online presence. ISIS is a mainly an internet based terror group who use hard to crack encryption codes to plan their attacks. It's kind of ironic to me that ISIS is trying to kill off modernization, but they use the most modernized thing in this world to get their message across, the internet.



It get's even harder that they have bases in Syria. Syria has it's own democratic government and it's hard (at least for the U.S it is), to strike their because Syria has their own American backed government. Syria is a corrupt country, especially during the civil war that they are having, but it's still an American backed government with a democratic system in place. What we are doing now with all the drone strikes and taking down ISIS websites is only going to slow down the the terrorism, but not end it. Once ISIS fades, a new terror group will emerge. This is because ISIS militants have sons and they teach their sons the ways of ISIS and the sons become terrorists too. It's a war George Bush should of thought through before coming to his final decision of going to war.



3. Muslims in the middle east are actually HELPING Americans fight against ISIS and other terror groups.



There are plenty of Muslim groups who believe what ISIS and other Islamic terror groups are doing is wrong and are willing to fight for peace alongside Americans. It sure doesn't help them when people like Donald Trump want to stop immigrating Muslims into the U.S, which kinda brings us into our next point.



4. There is no way you can tell an Islamic terrorist from a regular peaceful Muslim



Unless they have "I pledged my allegiance to ISIS" tattooed onto their forehead, there is no way to tell the difference between an ISIS militant and a peace Muslim. This is because ISIS militants and peaceful Muslims wear the same clothes as everyone else in this world. It is pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to spot a terrorist just by looking at them, so we need to stop seeing an peaceful Muslim person and automatically think that they are a terrorist.



5 Myths and the 5 Truths Behind "Islamic Terrorism"

The only way to stop terror attacks from happening in the U.S is stricter gun laws. That's it. It's quite ridiculous to get rid of all Muslims when most of them have nothing to do with these terror groups. It's like this. Pretend that you are in a room and there is a door across that room and in that other room where the door is, there are 50 dogs. Now 5 of those dogs want to attack you, the other 45 are peaceful and friendly. Donald Trump's theory is to never open that door. Yes, this will not allow those 5 dogs that want to attack you, but what about the 45 others that don't?



But also if you let the door open for all the dogs, those 5 dogs will attack you. There is no way to detect what 5 dogs are going to attack you. But, what if you did a background check on all the dogs. You'll see that those 5 dogs are there to attack you based on who the owner was and how they were raised. Same way with stricter gun laws. They already do background checks, but it should be stricter. Right now, basically anyone can go in and buy a gun, pretty scary thought.



5. We are making progress with ending terrorism



This is going to contradict what I said in point number 2, but we are making progress. Islamic terrorism is on the decline, actually terrorism in general is on the decline. I don't believe the war on terror will end, but progress is being made to slowly stop terrorism.



Extra point: Not all terrorists are Muslim



Thought I would make this an extra point. Not all terrorists are Muslim. There are terrorist for all types of religions around the world. And for those who say that "terror has no religion" Yes it does, the motive for these terror attacks are for their twisted belief of their religion. Even if the terrorist is atheist, he's doing it because he believes that there is no god so there is no need to feel sorry for himself if he kills anyone.



So in conclusion, I'm tired of people saying that all Muslims are terrorist when in reality that is not the case. I hope this myTake spreads throughout GaG so that ignorant and uneducated people will learn. In fact, spread this take everywhere, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace (if you still use that) let everyone know about this. Together we can end racism and end ignorance.

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