New Stephania wrote:I don't think we should be playing totting-up games, trying to decide which group of people is worse than another.
Why not? It's extremely relevant for the safety of any society that we know who's killing who and, therefore, who we should focus our efforts on to prevent further killings. Here's an interesting analogy. It's not about Islam, but it's about a similar issue where one minority demographic is responsible for an extreme amount of violence and yet the people against whom the violence is being committed refuse to make the distinction. Make 'country X' the world, 'class A' the Muslims and 'class B' the non-Muslims and you'll find that it works.
Suppose you are an alien and you are observing a country X which contains two classes of people, which we’ll call A and B. You observe the following:
Every year, thousands of people of class B are attacked, raped and killed by people of class A. The converse is extremely rare – at least, rare enough to be a cause celebre [this thread].
Large areas of X, including entire major cities [for my own analogy: countries], have been ethnically cleansed by the departure of class-B people fleeing class-A violence.
Versus class-As, class-Bs are systematically disfavored in competition for educational and professional positions.
Many, even most, people of class A accept a canonical ideology which justifies this situation as a moral response to unidentifiable, irreparable, and ancient wrongs [kufr], and appears to motivate ongoing attacks, which are often defended by responsible authorities [we don't support this attack, but they shouldn't have offended a man who is holy to so many people]. In fact, the belief that it is actually the class-Bs who are oppressing the class-As is widespread [this whole islamophobia nonsense].
While class-Bs are a numerical majority in some regions, they are a substantial minority on the entire planet. [this is the one difference; Muslims are a minority in the world, but then people of every faith are a minority in the world] Many respectable and influential people advocate the abolition of all migration controls worldwide, leaving the class-As in a perfect position to extend their theory of violence to a policy of global conquest and destruction. While this is not about to happen tomorrow, over the next century it is quite plausible.
