*sigh* No Mr. No Big Deal, I'm not a moderate Muslim. I'm simply agnostic, and focus a lot more on politics than religion, though there's a helluva lot of politics
in religion. I haven't split the world into Muslims and non-believers, and I haven't even split Muslims into good and bad - "Islamists" doesn't automatically mean extremists, while "Jihadists" does. That's the distinction I wanted to make earlier in the thread. I'm gonna try to wrap this up because I don't want to keep saying the same things over and over but every time I post someone replies directly to quotes from my post.
Only this kind of terrorism can justify killing 10 innocent people to kill 1 target
I'll briefly touch on this because it isn't true. Look at drone strikes in Yemen or Pakistan, the victims are almost always innocent civilians. Or Israel bombing Gaza. In these cases, innocent Muslims are killed.
What I wanted to do most in this thread was point out hypocrisy. Today in Paris lots of people marched for freedom and to express solidarity with victims of terrorism. Included were many world leaders who are at least partly responsible for imprisonment, torture, or murder of journalists. I'm pretty sure that Netanyahu from Israel (many journalists dead in Gaza in 2014) and Abbas from Hamas (jailed journalists) both attended. I know Ali Bongo from Gabon was there (former French colony, today home to ritual killings, organ harvesting, and the persecution of journalists who report on it). Eric Holder. Friqqin' ASSAD in Syria made a statement. Various officials from the Middle East and North Africa who crack down on opposition journalists. These people are praising freedom in the march, yet they do not allow freedoms to their own citizens. I personally consider many of these high-profile attendees "passive" terrorists because they have power to prevent violence and don't - but don't think I consider them the same as "active" terrorists. And finally, the single most disappointing fact in all of this for me: during Israel's campaign in Gaza last summer, Paris banned pro-Palestinian protests. Do you see why I find this solidarity bittersweet? It's because it's so often reserved for the privileged.
These murders are tragic, and of course I stand against terrorism and jihad. Killaman already said why they receive so much attention when elsewhere murders do not. He's right, but I think that's all the more reason to focus on the forgotten people. Don't think I'm only saying all of this because I myself am a Muslim. I'm definitely not lol. I think I'm probably done posting in this thread, but I guess we'll see where it goes from here...