Thank you, dear
@Slav Defence for asking my point of view.
Sometimes, very mundane and cheap stuff are of such importance in another dimension that it becomes inevitable for an ethical person to take stern action, whatever in one's power and capacity.
In the past weeks, a refugee crisis in Europe has caused the ever dormant European racism to wake up again on international stage. The appendages of this racism became active on forums and social media from the vile and bile of the net such as stormfront to unique specialist forums such as this place. Threads were being opened with a single objective, dehmanization of Muslims. Not unlike what Europeans had done with Jews throughout history.
Certain individuals here with whom I was debating, for example on
this thread or alternatively on this
other thread, were at the core of this whole fiasco. The individual in question here was going around and provoking anti-Muslim feeling around the forum. Please note the shamelessly bare undertone of the comments below, the consequences of which go beyond a forum, the quality of its posts and the desired balance between discipline and bustling necessary for the forum to grow. It goes into the realm of calling for holocaust of Muslims right in the open:
Please note that, in the above comment, a call is being made for an exclusive "force" to be applied to Muslims. What force? I guess you and I both know what force. European history can provide illustrations of such a force.
Please note that, criminals do live in all communities and countries. That is part of humanity. But singling out a community of hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis living in UK, for the actions of a few, and then generalizing it for Muslims while calling for application of force is unacceptable in my opinion. By the way sexual crimes, such as serial rapes, pedophilia and such other crimes are much more common among the white community and the statistics are there to prove this point. But the above comment has not been made to address sexual crimes. It has been with one single objective in the mind of the poster: dehumanization of Muslims.
Here, the poster is talking about Islam. He throws the subject of the thread, the image of Islam, outside the window and makes a definitive and fatalist statement.
The threat is obvious here. A call is being made for holocaust of Muslims with responsibility for such a holocaust assigned to those Westerners who are sympathetic to Muslims for being sympathetic to Muslims. That is merely having sympathy for Muslims in West can become responsible for their holocaust. Can you see the twisted mentality being promoted against Muslims? "Even loving Muslims can kill them".
These are not joking matters. And not limited to this forum. Tens of millions of Muslims live in Western countries. Almost all with exception of a few, live peaceful and fruitful lives, contributing to the communities they live, and sending remittances to their home countries. But a deep hatred of them, do exist among certain racist segments of these Western communities. Let's not kid ourselves here.
If tomorrow for some reason sh!tt hits the fan. A false flag operation, a "lone-wolf" crazy or some other crap happens, the lives of tens of millions of Muslims could come under threat. On the roads, on the subways, in their homes and in their work places. It only takes an already laid down mind frame and mindset for mob mentality to take over and do some irreparable damage to Muslim communities in West. The mind frame and mindset being promoted and laid down in those threads I mentioned above. Unfortunately I,
@Atanz and a couple of others were the only ones who responded to the call of deterring the formation of this mindet in those threads.
I am under no illusion, that if such a tragedy happens, no Muslim state, no international Islamic organization or even any non-Muslim organization will come to the aid of Muslims in West. Neither the capacity exists nor perhaps the will. The only way, and LITERALLY, the only way would be for Muslims to deter such mindsets and their aims from forming in the first place. The most effective way in this preventive solution would be to ridicule, sideline and drive into irrelevance the holders of such vile mindsets.
Dear
@Slav Defence , picture yourself as a Muslim girl (it does not matter whether she is Pakistani, Iranian or Turkish) with a colorful headscarf travelling with couple of thousands of people in a subway at night. Suddenly the news comes that the sh!tt hit the fan in that city. What kind of mindset you want to be around that girl? The kind of increasingly shameless and aggressive mindset displayed on those threads calling for "action", application of "force" and holocaust? What about a Muslim man travelling down an alley? Should he be surrounded with a popular mindset that he is a "sexual pervert".
These are the same excuses they used to apply to Jews. From "baby blood drinkers" to "sorcery" to etc which needed the application of "force" to rectify.
I can not go on and make myself responsible for a possible dark future in which, I did nothing to stop the closet case fascists or their enablers. These are no more different than Takfiris. Only at the other end of the spectrum. Muslims have to thread carefully. They are the most vulnerable community nowadays. Almost everything that goes wrong in the world today, is blamed on Muslims directly or indirectly.
I was watching this individual and another one, as they were going around the forum and single-mindedly posting anti-Muslim commentaries. I waited patiently. And at the end of the day, after much deliberation and putting forward logical arguments, marked the posts negative.
I as an ethical person, had to stand up to this. The imperative thing for me, is having done the correct thing. The rest is at your discretion.
Yours
