Quote Originally Posted by T-MaN
Quote Originally Posted by Gnostic Yevon
So writing a paper advocating Jihad is similar to writing a paper supporting the violent overthrow of the US government (which is illegal and will get you a night in jail talking to the FBI). You will only be arrested if you are advocating the violent overthrow of a government.
How is writing an essay on Jihad similar to overthrowing the US government? It could mean other things as well you know. The first impression that people get when they see a muslim person writing a paper on Jihad is that that person is a terrorist, or that they are related to a terrorist. What if people saw a non-muslim person writing a paper on Jihad? Would they arrest that person too? I don't think that they would. Lately, most things have been focused on muslims. I could be wrong seeing how I am not part of any government, but I can get a grasp of what's going on in the world by watching the news. So far of what I've seen, any suspicious acts by muslims are immediately taken as "terrorist" aggressions. What if "OTHER" extremist groups are doing the terrorist bombings and the muslims are getting blamed for it? It seems pretty logical. Other non-muslim terrorists are taking their chances to blow stuff up and not worrying because muslims will eventually get blamed. Proper evidence is needed to figure out who is actually behind most of the bombings. Some of the extremist groups admit that they have done the attacks, but some of them don't, and the blame gets pinned on the muslims. This kind of thing is happening everywhere around the world. Most governments are now blaming muslims as the prime terrorist groups.

I could be totally wrong, but every time I watch the news or read it, there is always something about "muslims suspected of terrorist agressions ", or "More suicide bombs by muslim terrorists "
First off, Jihad means holy war. It has a secondary meaning as in "a holy war against evil inside you", or something to that effect. But when they mean that, it's usually said as an "internal Jihad". So if you are talking about Jihad, unless you are talking about the "internal Jihad", you mean a war. As in a violent conflict. Communism is an economic theory. If a person is a communist, he believes in certain things, like collective ownership and so on. It's not a violent ideology, so I don't care if someone believes it. If a kid writes a paper in which he talks about Communism especially in a positive light, it would be pretty safe to assume that either he is a Communist or knows someone who is. I think writing about Jihad the same way. If a person chooses to write about Jihad especially in a positive light, I would assume that the person either believes that way himself or knows someone who does. It's a reasonable assumption that a person isn't going to write about something like that without some connection. And because the definition of Jihad is holy war, if a kid writes about Jihad, it should be checked.

As a second point, I'll be shocked if it turns out that the teacher never read the paper before he called the cops.

Quote Originally Posted by T-MaN
Lately, I haven't even heard anything about any other attacks made by other extremist groups around the world. All I hear is muslims did this, muslims did that... and so on. The whole world is standing on edge to see what kind of "diabolical plot the muslims will think of next" instead of what kind of "diabolical plot terrorists will think of next". The term "terrorist" is now mostly being directed at muslims.
Once again, I could be totally wrong seeing how I'm only speculating with what I see on T.V. or read on the newspapers. If anyone else can disprove what I've said, I'll glady take back everything I've said here.
Well, that's because after the peace with Britain, the IRA hasn't been active. Other than 9-11 and the Spanish Train Bombing (depending on your view of the intifada, that could be international as well) most terrorism is domestic and internal conflicts of forgein nations aren't covered in the USA. So it's skewed a lot toward the al-qaida type terrorists. Venezuela has had a civil war for 30 years. no press at all. Rawanda was a genocide, but Ruwanda doesn't get much press in the USa. I think the reason that the ME gets so much press is pretty much Oil and Israel.