Comments on: Fanatics: A Response to Ace http://www.collegebeing.com/fanatics-a-response-to-ace/ Real Life for College Students Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:49:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick Bernard http://www.collegebeing.com/fanatics-a-response-to-ace/#comment-3312 Nick Bernard Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:00:48 +0000 http://www.collegebeing.com/?p=638#comment-3312 Ace: I realize that you weren't going after Islam as a whole; my problem is simply that by creating divisions between this dictator and that one, or by focusing on radical Islamic dictatorships instead of just dictatorships, it makes it easy to a.) ignore any dictator who's not a fanatic Muslim and b.) paint all Muslims as somehow complacent, even if they're far enough removed from the region or the dictators to be without fault. It's not so much your article I'm responding to I suppose, as much as it is the overall sentiment that I feel that article panders to. Perhaps it's just me though; I've read a fair number of those "Islam is actually ALL ABOUT MURDER" emails so I tend to be a bit quick to react to things like that, and perhaps that's my fault. Ace: I realize that you weren’t going after Islam as a whole; my problem is simply that by creating divisions between this dictator and that one, or by focusing on radical Islamic dictatorships instead of just dictatorships, it makes it easy to a.) ignore any dictator who’s not a fanatic Muslim and b.) paint all Muslims as somehow complacent, even if they’re far enough removed from the region or the dictators to be without fault. It’s not so much your article I’m responding to I suppose, as much as it is the overall sentiment that I feel that article panders to. Perhaps it’s just me though; I’ve read a fair number of those “Islam is actually ALL ABOUT MURDER” emails so I tend to be a bit quick to react to things like that, and perhaps that’s my fault.

]]> By: Chris Mendes http://www.collegebeing.com/fanatics-a-response-to-ace/#comment-3272 Chris Mendes Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:31:46 +0000 http://www.collegebeing.com/?p=638#comment-3272 That exact quote is on my Facebook! Anyway, I don't see what you two are on about. Seems like you're saying the same thing? That exact quote is on my Facebook! Anyway, I don’t see what you two are on about. Seems like you’re saying the same thing?

]]> By: Ace Anderson http://www.collegebeing.com/fanatics-a-response-to-ace/#comment-3271 Ace Anderson Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:13:19 +0000 http://www.collegebeing.com/?p=638#comment-3271 Thank you for the thoughtful response Nick. I felt as though the article I posted was not so much a jab at modern Muslims, but a call to action. It is the fault of the fanatics all the horrors that have happened with Islamic radicalism, as you've stated, but it is everybody's fault that does not speak up. The articled tried to unite all the tyrants to show what has happened when people just stood and watched. Though, I am not saying we should unite and bomb the hell out of another country in the Middle East. I'll leave you with the following quote which I feel further explains the point I was trying to make: "First, they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then, they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then, they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then, they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoller Thank you for the thoughtful response Nick. I felt as though the article I posted was not so much a jab at modern Muslims, but a call to action. It is the fault of the fanatics all the horrors that have happened with Islamic radicalism, as you’ve stated, but it is everybody’s fault that does not speak up. The articled tried to unite all the tyrants to show what has happened when people just stood and watched. Though, I am not saying we should unite and bomb the hell out of another country in the Middle East. I’ll leave you with the following quote which I feel further explains the point I was trying to make:

“First, they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then, they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then, they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then, they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.” – Martin Niemoller

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