The Daily Campus

I agree with Mr. Pivarnik in "Islamic Reaction To Dutch Video Will Be Telling" that Muslim societies, like all human societies, have their own problems and shortcomings. But I have a serious issue with his notion of "Islamic Reaction." In a world with one Muslim out of every five people, how much violence is enough to conclude that the "Islamic Reaction" is violent? Can you imagine that if one out of every million Muslims snaps and commits an act of violence, we will end up with well over a thousand incidences worldwide? Would it be fair to ignore the 99.9999% of Muslims who will express their outrage peacefully, or even choose to ignore those provocation? Can we label the reaction of the extremely few Muslims as the "Islamic Reaction?" Why do we ignore the fact that the vast majority of Muslims reacted to the Danish cartoons controversy in a peaceful manner and condemned violent reactions?




Racist bigots like Wilders are fooling the public into irrational conclusions. They know that regardless of the cause, a tiny minority of any population is expected, if not guaranteed, to resort to violence. Just consider how many Americans might react violently if they or someone they love are personally insulted. Islam is more valuable to Muslims than their own selves, parents and children, and in the burst of rage caused by the insult of the person of the Prophet Muhammad or the Holy Quran, a tiny minority of Muslims are guaranteed to snap. It is not Islam that should be blamed, but this minority Muslims who fail to understand the plots of those evil bigots and then lack the required discipline to control their reaction.

To the last commenter: Yeah, that's it...it's just a "tiny minority" or the "extremely few." Have you any more fairy tales to dispense?