Chr15
Midfield
Do you know anyone who is "best friends" with a muslim, and I mean a full on practicing muslim, not one who just says he is but is out on the drink every weekend with his "best friend"?
I'm tee total so am never "out on the drink" with anyone. Growing up, my best friend was Muslim. When I wasn't sleeping over at his house he was sleeping over at mine. His parents were like my parents and vice versa. Our parents were very close and remain so today.
He moved to the States in '89 and I moved here (I was born here and moved abroad when I was a child). We met up in Toronto last Christmas and had a fantastic time. I got to meet his wife and children for the first time and now I consider them to be my family too. He is a "full in practicing" Muslim, I was raised a Catholic. So, I can say from personal experience that being best friends with a Muslim is not unheard of at all. I can add that another of our best friends was Hindu.
Maybe you are so closed to the idea of a non-Muslim being best friends with a Muslim because you were brought up with an "us vs. them" mentality? I don't mean that in a nasty way.
At the end of the day someone was always going to retaliate, eye for an eye and all that.
I know plenty of people who frankly have had enough. I'm not saying it's right but take all the political correctness out of it and people are fed up with being attacked in their own countries by albeit a minority of a culture/religion.
Society has been too soft (molly coddled) on those who oppose the views and values of our culture in the fear of offending the do gooders.
I'm struggling to remember the last time i heard of a terrorist attack in China where they outlaw religion.
You are justifying the actions of terrorists who justify their madness/are fed up with their countrymen being attacked in their own countries here. The irony!
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