Crime and terror have no religion, they are actions committed by individuals of all races, genders, religions, nationalities, and social/economic status.
There are no religiously transmitted crimes as there are genetically transmitted diseases.
The Holy Qur’an, in particular, declares that killing a human being is tantamount to killing “all humanity.”
I am told the Bible also speaks of killing of another human being as wrong.
In Wicca I am told that their prime rule is to “Do No Harm.”
I would summize that all religions teach that killing another human being is wrong.
Needless to say, when the crime is individual – not committed by a community – the accusation or condemnation should be made along individual lines, and not extended to members of the same family, community, nationality, ethnicity or faith.
Mainstream Media, especially in the USA, have brainwashed many people into incorrectly thinking that Terrorist and Islamic are synonymous. This ethno-centered hatred is definitely not in accord with the US Constitution and Bill of Rights – or any of the additional Amendments of the Founding Documents.
Thomas Jefferson complained about a similar phenomenon in his time, foreshadowing similar practices today, he said: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.
Should the American public waver between ignoring the newspaper and remain “uninformed,” or peruse the newspaper, and grow “misinformed?”
According to statistical data from the US Dept of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division for 2008, there were 16,272 murders, 89,000 forcible rapes, and 441,855 robberies. Also in 2008 there were 14,005,615 arrests for crimes other than traffic violations.
Now here’s another fact that might surprise you: 69.2% of persons arrested were white, 28.3% black, and the remaining 2.4% were of other races.
75.5% of the arrests were male, that means 24.5% were female and just 12.2% of the 14,005,615 arrests (that’s 1,708,685) in 2008 were for drugs. How’s that War On Drugs working for y’all?
Violent crime rate 454.5 per 100,000 inhabitants
Metropolitan areas 489.0 per 100,000
Nonmetropolitan areas 392
Rural areas 205.1
Homicide rate of 5.4 per 100,000
Metropolitan areas 5.7 per 100,000
Nonmetropolitan areas 3.5
Rural areas 3.4
Property crime rate 3212.0 per 100,000
Metropolitan areas 3352.0 per 100,000
Nonmetropolitan areas 3746.5 per 100,000
Rural areas 1681.1 per 100,000
According to the Pew Public Safety Performance Project, in 2008, the USA prison population reached more than 1 in 99.1 adults.
80% of the US prison population consider themselves Christians, so it sure seems to me that it is the Christians that we should be leery of, it is the Christians who commit the majority of the crimes in the USA, and it is the Christians who make up the greatest percentage of prison population.
In 1995 when Timothy McVeigh, a US Army Veteran, Christian and registered Republican, bombed the Alfred P Murray Building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people. Reportedly it was McVeigh’s attempt to “inspire a revolt” against a “tyrannical federal government.” His actions, in my view, can be classified as an act of terrorism. But the mainstream media avoided making any references to his Irish heritage, Catholic religion or political party affiliation. Irish-Americans, Catholics, Army Veterans and Republicans were not hated for their shared heritage, religion or political preferences. McVeigh’s actions were the terrorist acts of an individual.
What has happened to mainstream media? What/Who is really behind their new brainwashing journalistic tactics? Why are they so insistent on causing an Islamophobia Pandemic? Why are Americans buying into this crap? WAKE UP!
If I were one to stereotype groups based upon their history of deeds, I would say that Christians are Terrorists. This is no more wrong than Christians publically associating Islam with Terrorism, so if my statement makes you mad – do something about it: Quit Stereotyping People Of Different Religious Views! Let your local media know that you are no longer buying into their brainwashing!
In the United Nations….
There is a movement among several Muslims nations in the General Assembly to make “Christianity” a criminal entity, and I tend to agree based upon the history of that religion.
57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Nations has adopted the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, which states that all rights are subject to Shari’ah Law and makes Shari’ah Law the only source of reference for human rights. The 57 member Nations are in the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkans, Southeast Asia and South Asia.
The newest “anti-defamation” plan was submitted in March. It specifically cites a declaration “adopted by the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers” at a meeting in Islamabad “which condemned the growing trend of Islamophobia and systematic discrimination against adherents of Islam.”
It also cites the dictates from the OIC meeting in Dakar, “in which the Organization expressed concern at the systematically negative stereotyping of Muslims and Islam and other divine religions.”
It goes on to cite a wide range of other practices that “target” Islam, but does not mention any other religions, and urges all nations to provide “adequate protection against acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and coercion resulting from the defamation of any religion.”
Additional Resource Links:
http://www.oic-oci.org/press.asp
http://www.arabhumanrights.org/en/index.aspx
http://www.arabhumanrights.org/publications/regional/islamic/cairo-declaration-islam-93e.pdf