That's called kitman, as stated in an earlier post. It's perfectly fine for them to lie and be deceptive if it means to gain the trust of non-believers.
ISIS is not the first terrorist group that represents Islam. It's not even up for debate that the religion is plagued by violence and intolerance. People love saying that not all Muslims are terrorists, but that's an empty statement. You should be asking what all terrorists are, and nearly all terrorists end up being Muslim. Is that just some strange coincidence?
We're never going to be able to fight the problem until people like you get real about it and stop making some disconnect between Islam and violence. It does not matter if people catchphrase it as a "religion of peace" or if there are hugs and kisses in the Quran. None of that excuses the religion for the terror and violence it's bringing to the world. |
The problem with many conservative media outlets is that they exploit and politicize these attacks to further propagate their agenda of being anti-muslim. Much how liberals use exploit and politicize mass shootings to further their anti gun-control rhetoric.
The reality is that the number of muslim extremists is nominal. According to a study done by Europol, which is the EU's law-enforcement agency, they concluded that only two percent of 152 terror attacks in 2013 were religiously motivated.
Another study done by the FBI says that 94% of terrorist attacks were
not done by muslims. To put this into perspective, think about the amount of practicing muslims in the world. There are 1.6 billion muslims.
I agree with you with one point: we need to stop Islam extremism. But we can't associate the words "terrorism" and "Islam" much like we can't associate the words "terrorism" and "Christianity". There are Christians willing to blow up an abortion clinic, but we don't see all of them as terrorists. It just does not make sense to me.
Sources:
https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/p...rism-2002-2005
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/...rorism-europe/