But with this increased awareness of the Muslim, there is a lack of appreciation of the nuances within our group. The reality is that many Muslims are secular. We do not pray five times a day, do not read the Koran and have not spent much time inside a mosque. We only turn to Islam when a child is born, someone gets married or someone dies.
We certainly have no interest in participating in civilizational battles. We are, in fact, loathed by the religious minority. And yet we have no clear voice, no representation and no one in the Western world appears to be aware of our existence. Every time a terrorist attack occurs, we suffer the most.
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Not only Egyptians believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories: It seems Egyptians are not alone: nearly a quarter of Germans polled think the US government had a role in 9/11.
I found the results from China, Indonesia and the Ukraine interesting — a significant number (a majority in China and Indonesia) answered don’t know. Don’t know or don’t care?
In Nigeria (a country with a large Muslim population), however, there is no such desire for conspiracies. (Although, of course, we aren’t given a Muslim/Christian breakdown.)
Lots of people will blame education. Possibly. But more literate, numerate, ‘advanced’, ‘modern’ populations were duped by Tony Blair’s propaganda pieces. I think it will be a mix of education, access to various forms of media and trust in government*.
(Via FP Passport.)
*Healthy trust demands healthy scepticism.
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