Kari posted:caribny, let me explain. When you talk of bigotry against Muslims in the US and elsewhere ISIS does a dance. You know why because they say you did their dirty work for them. ISIS wants there to be two worlds - a "Muslim" world and a non-Muslim world. Here's where you were suckered into doing their job for them. ISIS knows they can't defeat a conventional army with tanks, planes, etc. So what they want is for Muslims to join their "Muslim" world. Note that their "Muslim" world is not the same as THE Muslim world. The Quran is the Quran and practices by evil people has nopthing to do with inspiration from the Quran. An evil person can draw inspiration from the Bible too or the Torah.
ISIS can only triumph if they get a large following. They got that in the Sunni lands in disaffected Shiite Iraq and falling-t0-pieces Syria. They want to go global now and enlist people like you who claim there is a problem with Islam and only Muslims can fix it. When Paris or San Bernadine happen they never planned or funded these Do-It-Yourself (DIY) terror attacks; but they will lay claim to it. They want you to say that only people who shout Allah-O-Akbar are doing the terror. So you make the story that people don't go around causing terror while shouting JEsus Christ, then therefore there must be something wrong with Islam. then you delve into the writings in the Quran and say see ISIS's inspiration is in the Quran.
So caribny, ISIS will applaud you and Trump for doing its work of dividing the owtld in preparation for some mystical end-of-times great war of a clash of civilization.
Kari it is YOUR refusal to think that Muslims have an obligation to rid their religion of those who attempt to destroy it (Islamists and not just ISIS) that is the biggest threat to Muslims.
Kari no American with half a brain thinks that ISIS will invade the USA, or be a threat to them. What they do fear are increasing numbers of lone wolves who represent a group which they consider to be alien to them.
They do not regard the lost white boys who shoot up schools as doing so for reasons other than pure insanity.
They however fear that those people who happen to be Muslim, who engage in the same behavior do so for ideological reasons, backed by a warped interpretation of the Quran.
It then becomes in the interest of Muslims to aggressively attack this problem. Not only do they risk increasingly soft bigotry (stares and profiling) and occasional hard bigotry (attacks on Muslims or their property) in North America and even more so in Europe. But the fact remains is that millions of Muslims are being displaced, with hundreds of thousands even being killed by this Islamist fanatics.
Exactly what are Muslims in the USA doing to help Muslim refugees who are being kept out of the USA, even as some welcome the Christian refugees fleeing Islamists? Don't you care about the religious test that is possibly being used to determine who can, and who cannot enter the USA?
Kari I suggest to you that you do NOT want non Muslims to fix this problem!