Wednesday, December 9, 2015
How do we fight ISIS?
Last Sunday, President Obama addressed the couple from the San Bernardino shooting as "radical" and "Muslim" terrorists. Not disagreeing that the attackers were not terrorists, but I think that when he says Muslim terrorists, he is categorizing all muslims as terrorists, which we know is not the case. I think it is sad that a few peoples actions give the whole group a bad reputation, most of us can probably relate to this, but the Muslim/ISIS connection is to a whole new level. Donald Trump recently said that he wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, the land of opportunity, banning people from entering because of their religion, but isn't one of the United States' main values? Freedom of religion? How do we separate bad people from the rest of the group, in any situation?
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I agree that when there is one terrorist attack the blame gets put not only on the individuals but put on the whole Muslim religion, which is extremely unfair. There is many situations where this happens all the time. Where one person puts the blame and guilt not only on themselves but on their whole religion, race, or nationality. When a Mexican is guilty of something or does something wrong their mistakes get put on all of the Mexican people who are working hard and making good decisions.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, after the woman posted a Facebook status honoring Isis after the shooting, I would say that she was motivated by Isis and their beliefs, even though it may have been indirectly by the group. But I wouldn't associate all Muslims with Isis and their bad intensions.
I think that this issue, is unfortunately systemic of fear and paranoia felt by the American public. It is a really sad reality, that, people often associate an entire people with an ideology. The KKK is not representative of Christians, so why do people paint ISIS representative of Islam? This is the exact type of fear-mongering that we should shy away from. I think that we need to keep urging the idea that ISIS is not Islam, that Islam is a religion of peace and prosperity with one's self, and that ISIS is simply terror, hiding behind a veil of what they call their "beliefs".
ReplyDeleteI don't think there is really a solution to separating the good and bad people in any group in any situation. It is far too difficult to isolate one person or one group of people as good or bad because we all know that people can be really good liars(psycho/sociopaths) so how would we establish who is good and who is bad? Although we would like to hope that one day we can achieve this, I don't think we will be able to. There are far too many factors that go into this problem and messing up one of the factors can cause a whole new set of problems.
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ReplyDeleteI disagree with this. When he says that they were Muslim terrorists, he says that they are terrorists that are Muslim. Quite literally. Obama is a left wing politician and his views on things usually end up with him defending groups viewed by others as suspicious. (like Syrian refugees) I highly doubt that he was actually associating the whole religion with terrorism with that statement. He has been known to explicitly attack views like these.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I agree with Patrick on this one, I think Trump is a whole problem on his own. Despite Obama's classification of the terrorists, Trump has announced to the world that he has basically labeled all Muslims as dangerous and potentially terrorists. I see where his intentions are but this is not the way to ensure our countries safety. Imagine after numerous mass shootings, where the suspect was white American, all Americans had to go through screenings in order to be able to enter a country. It is absolutely ridiculous.
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