Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@endlessendless" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>endlessendless</span></a></span> wrote:<br>«<br>But if there is enough evidence that a majority of Muslims is hating you for any (religious) reason....<br>»<br>Except that I'm convinced that there is no such evidence - on the contrary.</p><p>Yes, each religion, as well as the (growing) group usually called atheists, has at least a minority of *IDIOTS*.</p><p>However, a huge majority of Muslims is peaceful. That's actually how their religious books tell them to behave.</p><p>For example: my father, who was a Mennonite preacher, was in charge of (and a teacher at) a school for Mennonite preachers in Indonesia for 6 years, starting 1965 (a large share of all Muslims lives in Indonesia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Indonesia" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in</span><span class="invisible">_Indonesia</span></a>). I lived there too during those 6 years (I was at my primary school age).</p><p>*If* Indonesian people disliked or even hated us, that was *not* primarily because of religious reasons, but because Dutch people had colonized Indonesia (around WW2) and had murdered many Indonesian citizens. *WE* (actually one of my uncles, who fought there as a soldier) were the terrorists.</p><p>However, even if some or all of the Indonesians we've met may have hated us, *NONE* of them ever ran towards us carrying knives, guns or even explosives tied to their body. Instead, *every* grown up was extremely polite, and children were children (some of them scolded my sister and me "Londoh" - slang for Belanda, which is Indonesian for Dutch - but many kids became friends that I used to play with).</p><p>You are encouraging a self-fulfilling prophecy. Let's hate Muslims, because you, "endlessness", were made to believe that the majority of Muslims hates you.</p><p>Guess how that story will end if everyone becomes an "endlessness".</p><p>Will that be like how the heavily encouraged hatred between US citizens (regardless of religion, not taking into account worshipped politicians) will definitely lead to a civil war?</p><p>And/or how the mutual hatred between Israeli's and non-Israeli's (regardless of religion) in the Middle East has already led to pointless but extreme suffering of many?</p><p>I'm glad that I don't think like you.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Hatred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hatred</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BlindHatred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlindHatred</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Muslims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Muslims</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Polarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polarization</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Polarisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polarisation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peace</span></a></p>