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Originally Posted by guvner

Most of the Mulsims?? - perhaps a little perspective is required here?

Estimates are that there are +/- 1.2 billion Muslims in the world and +/- 2.1 billion Christians.

If we were to postulate that 0.01% (one hundredth of one percent) of all Muslims have extreme views, this would equate to a little over a 100,000 people.

Now, if we take all the images of protest and anger that have been broadcast via all media since the cartoon issue surfaced and attempt to quantify their numbers, how many people would we have seen? - 100, 1,000, 10,000 or maybe the whole 0.01% - who knows? What we do know is that 20 years ago this would have been a non event! Why? - because we'd most likey have gone about our daily lives blissfully unaware of these events.

But these days, every single incident gets blasted into our conciousness from waking up to bed time, and I sincerely believe that our awareness of issues such as this is more a result of the world's media and their hunger to "be first" or "the most informative" or the "most dramatic" than any real escalation in some perceived underlying problem. And if we see the same footage over and over, we might even be left with the impression that every member of Islam on the planet is up in arms!

I find it so frustrating and irritating when I see and hear people being "bagged and tagged" based on some kind of label, people are people regardless of which religion they practice and there are whackos in all of them, but the overwhelming majority of people are good and kind individuals, if that were not true our entire species would never have made it this far!

I'm truly sorry you were hacked, I can only imagine how you must have felt, but it was probably one person that did it, what percentage of Islam would he or she make up?

I understand what you are saying and you are probably right about the use of the word "most", however it is fact that there are more Muslims wanting death to christians then vice versa. I know that for a large part a lot fo the middle east countries are full of people that hate us. Actually they REALLY hate Jews and since we support them..... Anyhow, I do not see as much hate coming from the christians.....

I know another personal experience of my own is that ouside the internet in "real" life I hardly ever have any problems with Muslims. With that said, its a different story on the internet. It seems that on the internet ( no face nothing to lose), I have been insulted and attacked in a large array of mediums.

In the end you are correct, we are all people and share the same emotion, however it is how it is expressed that matters...