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I made a general statement about Muslims just being people living next to other people, because that's true. See: 44 million Muslim Europeans. The fact that there are ethnic tensions in the Balkan going back centuries does not change that. The "centuries past" was specifically in reaction to...

Well I am, but I wouldn't call "treat Muslims as human beings" a particularly extreme opinion. What baffles me is that this victim blaming response is explicitly contradicted by these articles. And no one I know who agrees with those articles interprets them that way, either. Perhaps some do --...

I see this reaction a lot. I don't understand it. That article and every article like it (at least the ones I've read), makes it absolutely clear that they are not blaming the victim. That no one deserves to die or to suffer violence for what they've written. That what happened was completely...

The PVV, FN, UKIP and similar explicitly anti-Islam political parties are getting significant voting shares, mosques and other businesses commonly associated with Muslims are attacked with disturbing frequency (especially over the last few days), and people in this thread have talked about Islam...

If you think some people in this thread aren't treating Muslims like a different class of people, you're blind. Like this excellent Teju Cole article?

Let's not start throwing around nationalistic slogans, here. And let's not pretend that the results of violent conflict at the borders of empires in centuries past means that other human beings are anything but other human beings, simply living their lives. We can find plenty of examples of...

We sometimes post things that aren't strictly related. We've also done some birds-eye view coverage of Wasteland 2 and other post-apoc games. It depends.

Yes. If you have news that deserves to be posted, go ahead and bring it to our attention.

To emphasize that, here's a cool article about Arab cartoonists condemning the attack on Charlie Hebdo. http://mic.com/articles/108076/here-s-how-arab-papers-reacted-to-the-charlie-hebdo-massacre

There is no such thing as a "real" interpretation, as there are dozens of variations and sub-variations of Islam that all interpret verses differently and emphasize. You'd have to ask specific Muslims which tenets they adhere to, which scholars they listen to, and you can Google all of that for...

Really? Because all I see are fringe fanatics executing terrorist attacks, and 1.6 billion Muslims not doing that. I also see Islamic scholars, including Salafi and Wahhabi scholars, denouncing violent actions. Something they do constantly. The Muslim community is constantly policing itself and...