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The fact that this is done under the guise of antiterrorism ought to ring some bells to American readers.

adventured 8y ago
The situations don't compare well, even though the US too often uses terrorism as a guise to pursue global political goals. Domestically there are 3.3 million Muslims in the US. There are ~50 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, with most of the former detainees having been released without charge. Some of them were charged as enemy combatants and or terrorists. And Guantanamo is widely considered a black mark on the US reputation. The US has millions of Muslims that co-exist entirely peacefully with a very large Christian majority. After 9/11, at the height of anti-Muslim emotions in the US, Muslim Americans weren't put into camps by the tens or hundreds of thousands; they weren't slaughtered; their rights weren't wiped out; their culture and religion wasn't made illegal; the US didn't arrest them by the hundreds of thousands in targeted fashion. In fact, it's extraordinary just how peaceful and calm the situation after 9/11 actually was: if you believed the propaganda, America surely would have killed or arrested every Muslim in the country, except the propaganda is all a lie. The US is not trying to destroy Islam in the US. The US is not interning millions of Muslims, trying to eradicate their culture and beliefs. The US is not torturing its Muslim population of 3.3 million. The US is not restricting their movement, their worship, or keeping them from owning guns or knives to defend themselves. The US is not razing their places of worship. The US is not building massive camps to put hundreds of thousands of Muslims into. The US isn't doing anything even remotely similar to what's going on in China.
- s2g 8y ago
  No, the US just goes and bombs their homes instead. and at home the US strips away freedoms from their own people with the justification of "national security".
  - 323454 8y ago
    If you're a US Muslim then your home is probably the US.
- sullyj3 8y ago
  The parent's point wasn't to put the US on the same ethical level as China, but to encourage people to be skeptical when terrorism is used as justification for harmful policies.
- throwaway9346 8y ago
  There are over 20 million Muslims in China and the vast majority also co-exist entirely peacefully with other Chinese.
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The situations don't compare well, even though the US too often uses terrorism as a guise to pursue global political goals. Domestically there are 3.3 million Muslims in the US. There are ~50 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, with most of the former detainees having been released without charge. Some of them were charged as enemy combatants and or terrorists. And Guantanamo is widely considered a black mark on the US reputation. The US has millions of Muslims that co-exist entirely peacefully with a very large Christian majority. After 9/11, at the height of anti-Muslim emotions in the US, Muslim Americans weren't put into camps by the tens or hundreds of thousands; they weren't slaughtered; their rights weren't wiped out; their culture and religion wasn't made illegal; the US didn't arrest them by the hundreds of thousands in targeted fashion. In fact, it's extraordinary just how peaceful and calm the situation after 9/11 actually was: if you believed the propaganda, America surely would have killed or arrested every Muslim in the country, except the propaganda is all a lie. The US is not trying to destroy Islam in the US. The US is not interning millions of Muslims, trying to eradicate their culture and beliefs. The US is not torturing its Muslim population of 3.3 million. The US is not restricting their movement, their worship, or keeping them from owning guns or knives to defend themselves. The US is not razing their places of worship. The US is not building massive camps to put hundreds of thousands of Muslims into. The US isn't doing anything even remotely similar to what's going on in China.

s2g 8y ago
No, the US just goes and bombs their homes instead. and at home the US strips away freedoms from their own people with the justification of "national security".
- 323454 8y ago
  If you're a US Muslim then your home is probably the US.
sullyj3 8y ago
The parent's point wasn't to put the US on the same ethical level as China, but to encourage people to be skeptical when terrorism is used as justification for harmful policies.
throwaway9346 8y ago
There are over 20 million Muslims in China and the vast majority also co-exist entirely peacefully with other Chinese.

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