Quote Originally Posted by ireggae View Post
Venom knows Im also part Arab(im multiracial) but in the US and I dont go around killing people. 99% of the Arabs are good and about 1% arent as good. Its just like the rest of the world. The 1% give trouble.
it's called a loud minority. it's where stereotypes come from.(though I think it's much less than 1%) due to the large amount of the news coverage that certain people get because that's the only way to keep people watching. and keep the station running with advertising money.
it's so simple to lie convincingly. it's just that nobody with noble intentions ever does.
Quote Originally Posted by VenomusX View Post
Well, it is indeed a sad event, and guess what, not everyone in the Middle East are terrorist, nor all Arabs, nor all Muslims. We're as peaceful as any other nation, go around doing our jobs and feeding our families. We don't celebrate death of others, especially civilians. We have our own terrorist attacks to worry about...

I felt like sharing that. I believe it's rare for you (US citizens) to have a direct insight about us Arabs, so I'm trying to tell you, like every nation, there's the good and the bad. Like how G.W.Bush USED the 9/11 attacks to support his war-hunger and guess what, attack oil-fertile nations...I'm not going into that debate, but we all know that backhand deals and strategic resources were the real motivations, not Spreading Democracy and building a better world, nor is the US the international police who can just come crackin' on anyone who opposes it (yes, it's still the top military power in the world, but with power comes responsibility).

And I do sympathize with the victims and their families. It was not their fault they were in the wrong place at the wrong time...

Is your Mother in Law's birth a cataclysmic event now? Lol jk
It's pretty normal for humans to associate negative behaviour with other people while considering themselves perfect. for example any attack by Muslims must have been run by Al Qaeda AL Jihad but the attacks in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik was just him working by himself out of his own interests.
Quote Originally Posted by The Doctor View Post
We all know that not all people from the Middle East are terrorists, just like not all Americans are "The big American Hero" you see in movies.
If we could abolish all the stereotypes the world would be a better place.
and the best way to do that is to not treat anyone differently just because of what you think of them. it's very hard but if we all pull together we can do this.