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Is it terrorism? Post NZ attack, Muslims see double standard

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Absolutely a double-standard. This incident would be the ultimate terror scenario common people have about Muslim terrorists. Could you imagine if a Muslim shot up a church and it was discovered that he was active on an anti-Christian website where people encouraged each other and after the deed was done the other users were treating him like a hero? That's the type of scenario that is used for movies, like in Jack Ryan where the terrorists gas a church. I get the feeling the overall reaction would be a bit different than what happened here, even as bad it has been...

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troubled by demands that Muslims condemn extremism carried out in the name of Islam

Well, since the PM of NZ, as well as the PMs of other western nations has denounced this terrorist act, and thousands of white NZers have flocked to their Muslim brethren's side, why is it too much to ask that Muslims do the same? Silence only invites suspicion.

Trump's reaction has been vilified when he actually initially said this:

My warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of New Zealand after the horrible massacre in the Mosques. 49 innocent people have so senselessly died, with so many more seriously injured. The U.S. stands by New Zealand for anything we can do. God bless all!

There may be a double standard against Muslims on calling people terrorists, but there also seems to be one in Muslim's favor on whether or not they should disavow attacks made in the name of Islam.

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over last few weeks hundreds of christians slaughtered in Africa and the Philippines and no one is mention it, why do not the ones writing this article say at least something. It is now politically correct amongst the whites to bash the whites for political and media gains, but that will only cause more phobia and terror on both sides. When I offer you my other cheek you are supposed to kiss it not slamm it. Right now no one is asking Muslims to offer the other cheek but they should not slam the one offered to them as consolation. By pouring more oil on fire we are distancing ourselves from any peaceful solution.

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What double standard?? The New Zealand Government has just announced a Royal Commission into the Christchurch shootings after only one anti muslim terrorist attack while there numerous Muslim attacks in Western countries every year against Western civilians and no such response.

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There may be a double standard against Muslims on calling people terrorists, but there also seems to be one in Muslim's favor on whether or not they should disavow attacks made in the name of Islam.

They do. All the time.

And it's often buried away in the news reports, dismissed or even deleted from conversation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2017/mar/26/muslims-condemn-terrorism-stats

https://ing.org/global-condemnations-of-isis-isil/

https://muslimscondemn.com/

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What double standard?? The New Zealand Government has just announced a Royal Commission into the Christchurch shootings after only one anti muslim terrorist attack while there numerous Muslim attacks in Western countries every year against Western civilians and no such response.

New Zealand should be having Royal Commissions for Muslim attacks in other countries? Why? That seems weird. It's looking to me more like you were taking two unrelated things and trying to call them a double standard. Unless you think that NZ should be having Commissions for incidents in foreign nations.

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How many muslim-on-westerners attacks vs westerners-on-muslim attacks? Seems pretty one sided.

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How many muslim-on-westerners attacks vs westerners-on-muslim attacks? Seems pretty one sided.

How is this even a comparison? They are both horrible things. Are you trying to out-suffer the other side or something?

I'm not sure how you can think that having a commission is a bad idea. I can understand how you could think not having one is a bad idea, and I would likely agree in many if not most situations. But you're criticizing NZ for having a double standard for... um, what? As far as I know, they haven't not held a commission for any such incidents, so....?

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How many muslim-on-westerners attacks vs westerners-on-muslim attacks? Seems pretty one sided.

I don't think it's a competition. There's plenty of westerners who happen to be Muslim. Also, there's the largest demographic who suffer from terrorist attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan and other regions in North Africa and the Middle East: Muslims.

It's all horrific and it shouldn't really come down to who suffers more.

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The comparison is simple. When there's a muslim-inspired terrorist attack on westerners, you rarely see any outpouring of sympathy and never see any condemnation of it. When it's the other way around, well we can count on one hand how many times that's happened, everyone is bowing their heads for a God they don't believe in, they wear head scarves, etc.

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 When there's a muslim-inspired terrorist attack on westerners, you rarely see any outpouring of sympathy and never see any condemnation of it.

This is blatantly untrue. I refer you to my previous post further up:

They do. All the time.

And it's often buried away in the news reports, dismissed or even deleted from conversation.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2017/mar/26/muslims-condemn-terrorism-stats

https://ing.org/global-condemnations-of-isis-isil/

https://muslimscondemn.com/

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Further evidence of sympathy after the Manchester attack:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslims-raise-money-manchester-suicide-bombing-explosion-salman-abedi-a7752256.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-40076591

The falsehood that Muslims (ordinary, decent people like you and I) don't care/or condemn terrorism must not be allowed go unchallenged.

 everyone is bowing their heads for a God they don't believe in, they wear head scarves, etc.

(If you want to do theological debate, the god of Islam is the same god as Christianity and Judaism. And Jesus Christ is an prophet in Islam and latterly, in some areas of Judaism.)

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