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Do you get nervous when you notice people in Muslim garb on your airplane?

Does it make you nervous?


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Yeah it is kind of funny. But you have to realise muslims are over a billion and are incredibly diverse, its like a whole section of the planet.

Why don't you trust people? :p
 
Yeah it is kind of funny. But you have to realise muslims are over a billion and are incredibly diverse, its like a whole section of the planet.

Why don't you trust people? :p

Guess I'm easy prey for backstabbers. But....really just always was skeptical & cynical. You're right there are 1.5 billion Muslims, and they are diverse. I think I'm thinking the ME too much, but you're right about the diversity.
 
Guess I'm easy prey for backstabbers. But....really just always was skeptical & cynical. You're right there are 1.5 billion Muslims, and they are diverse. I think I'm thinking the ME too much, but you're right about the diversity.

Group hug! :2party:
 
Yeah it is kind of funny. But you have to realise muslims are over a billion and are incredibly diverse, its like a whole section of the planet.

Why don't you trust people? :p

Yeah, but people absorb images. It's a defense mechanism against what could potentially endanger you, no matter how illogical it is. That is why I think the sentiment is silly, but having the sentiment is not unnatural.
 
This question speaks more to culture than anything else. Someone recently told me that we are all a little bit racist and used the example of being nervous when running into a black man in a back ally. However, the premise is wrong. If I met a black man in an ally and he was wearing a suit and tie, I wouldn't think anything of it. It would make me far less nervous than if I was in the middle of the campus of Harvard and saw a young white man, but he had a trenchcoat, emo hair cut, 5 oclock shadow and room to hide a gun.

The religion of Islam has some very violent components in it that a diehard fundamentalist muslim would be compelled to carry out. I don't get nervous when I see someone who is obviously of some middle eastern descent boarding a plan. However, when I see someone whose dress obviously reflects that they hold to a form of fundamental Islam, yes that will make me a little nervous; specifically because their god commands them to kill Christians and Jews, of which I am both.

I believe that constitutionally, every muslim has the right to dress how they want and practice every part of their religion that does not violate the constitutional rights of others. But if you are raped in the back ally by a black man in a suit and tie, you will always be nervous about black men in back allies. If you are shot at by a white emo kid on a college campus, you will always be nervous about white emo kids. And if a group of radically fundamental muslims kill nearly 4,000 Americans in one day by hijacking airplanes, then nobody should get fired from their job because fundamental muslims on airplanes make then nervous.

That's my two cents.
 
This question speaks more to culture than anything else. Someone recently told me that we are all a little bit racist and used the example of being nervous when running into a black man in a back ally. However, the premise is wrong. If I met a black man in an ally and he was wearing a suit and tie, I wouldn't think anything of it. It would make me far less nervous than if I was in the middle of the campus of Harvard and saw a young white man, but he had a trenchcoat, emo hair cut, 5 oclock shadow and room to hide a gun.

There's plenty of tweaked-out white folks that you wouldn't want to encounter in a dark alley (or for that matter, in broad daylight).
 


No, doesn't bother me. I'm more concerned with how a person is acting than how they're dressed.


 
What is "traditional Muslim dress" anyway? If we're going to keep the fear alive, should we be precise about the varieties of possible "traditional Muslim dress" around the world, or do we get more fear per air-mile if we just go with vague generalities?
 
What is "traditional Muslim dress" anyway? If we're going to keep the fear alive, should we be precise about the varieties of possible "traditional Muslim dress" around the world, or do we get more fear per air-mile if we just go with vague generalities?
The vague route.

Anyone wearing anything that could even remotely be considered a turban, even if it's some woman wearing a towel around her hair after a shower.

Anything that could be considered a robe.

US court justice robes come to mind. They must all be terrorists. :mrgreen:

In fact, if a female doesn’t show cleavage, they must be an evil terrorist Muslim.
I have other reasons for demanding such :mrgreen:
 
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