Are Muslim men volunteering in droves to infiltrate terrorist organizations ?

Think of the lives it would save,need i say more?

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I am a Muslim and i am very peed at the bad image they give Islam. I guess you are asking why aren't the majority of normal Muslims doing something about it.....what can we do though? We don't have a voice in the media, we are the minority. Praying is our first option but i understand that to you that's simply not good enough.

I wish i could do something all the time and usually feel hopeless that i can't.

I think we also tend to see both sides of the story you know? Like i said in a previous question, if your put away in a prison such as gitmo, abu graib or bagram when your innocent and your being tortured and your children are being tortured, then your whole family and extended family (because their cultures are very family-orientated) are inevitably going to have some reservations about the West.

I don't know, it's really complicated. How does the normal person fight terrorism when there's all this secret FBI information and stuff? I dont know. But good question anyway. I guess men don't "volunteer in droves" because they probably don't want to be associated with it. They want to remove themselves completely from that and get on with their normal lives looking after their families.

I mean, you could ask the same question of American men who don't "volunteer in droves" to repair the image of America tarnished by a small minority of Americans who torture innocent Muslim men in those prisons.

They're taking a different tack. The idea is that if you help them by sending them money and lying on their behalf and tricking people into joining Islam (so that there are more people to blow themselves up), eventually the terrorists will give up thinking that it's become too easy. Kind of like when you use cheat codes to a video game and quit b/c the thrill is gone.

I actually thought about this seriously once,

It would be dangerous, but I could try and infiltrate Al-Qaida, but this is not what God asks of me,

rather my duties are to pray, fast, give charity and make a pilgrimage to Mecca once in my life.

Plus I could get really screwed over, what if I was working for the CIA and the Al-Qaida people found out, or what if the CIA thought I was a double-agent or something!

I think my parent's want me to finish my University studies!

If I was a Muslim I would certainly join them. Who can resist the 72 beautiful virgins?

Did Christians volunteer in droves to infiltrate groups like the one that Timothy McVeigh belonged to after the OKC bombing?

Are Christian men volunteering to go and help the innocent children (even if they are muslim) in Nigeria who are being murdered by Christians as we speak?

No their not. DO you know how it feels to be victimized and generalised by the media. No one supports them or likes them and yes they do make our religion look bad. But its up to the media to stop downgrading muslims to sell stories.

I think the thing is, many Muslims don't feel as though its specifically THEIR problem more than anyone else's.

Please bear with me.

If a few angry men (percentage wise its really ridiculously tiny, the amount who actually resort to violence) decide to interpret scriptures in a vile and extreme way AND miss out all the bits about not transgressing limits and do not fight those who do not want to fight you etc. then THEY are nuts.

As someone who is educated and aware of world and social political events I realise that it is not my religion that drives these people to do this without the aid of manipulation. the people who do this lack of mental stability and the general ability to think independently and research what they are brainwashed to believe. They crave glory, which cant be a trait of an emotionally healthy person.

Otherwise my mother, who does do her prayers five times a day would not cry at the news of people from her country of birth (India) dying in the name of the religion she adores. Instead, she would go join the military minority because she is that dedicated. But she knows it is wrong.

I, as a human, try to do what i can. I REALLY do. But at the end of the day I have to concentrate on my life, my loved ones, my bills and my future.

I have done a few things including write articles regarding the topic informing both non Muslims and MUSLIMS about how factually WRONG it is to do such things and that their future is not with virgins (another myth, a translation from "pure companions" FYI) and what they're dong is on par with killing "all of humanity".

BUT I still don't feel it's anymore MY responsibility than my neighbours. I don't know these people. They are not "my people". My family are my people and they are like me. I am a British citizen and the majority of my close friends are not Muslims. I love them. They are "my people".

My ideology and my family have never been extreme. I am one in a LONG line of liberated and liberal women who are Muslim. I personally am not a particularly practicing or pious one, but one who essentially believes in the oneness of God as an all encompassing power who is more than anything else: Compassionate and all-forgiving (the two things that are repeated about God in the Quran more than anything else)

I am being quite calm but I get very angry in fact when people try and lump me with some murderous wretches who have NOTHING in common with me and try and make it MY problem. As though I get a Muslim memo before an attack happens so I know not to get on the tube. As though I'm not human and I don't feel hurt or compassion at the suffering of others. I used to try and reason (like I am here) but now if one more person asks me "do you condemn the attacks" i get angry.

9/11 happened seven years ago and if i that time people haven't educated themselves to not ask such a stupid and narrow-minded question which essentially is saying: Hey, you're Muslim, you must like killing people! then they need to get out more, read some books, and meet some everyday Muslims. (not those uneducated men who come over from all over the world, angry at the lack of opportunity in their lives. nor those who are segregated and lust for validation in martyrdom, just some regular, everyday muslims)

The BAD people of this world are BAD people from wherever they come from. They are not linked to the generally GOOD people of the world due to race, religion (as interpretations are vast!!!!!), hair colour, film tastes or anything else. It is the responsibility of ALL the GOOD to work together and oppose those BAD people.

Why should Muslims be the only ones sacrificing their lives? Why should I put my life on the line MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE simply because my social circumstances have lead me to believe that there is one, non human, omnipresent power? I have not spoken to these evil men who kill, i have not worked in ANY way to contribute to their insanity, there is not part of my life which is linked to them, or indeed to ANYONE like them (and I know a lot of Muslims! we have BIG families!)

SO for you to say:

"Good Muslims need to fight Bad Muslims. Otherwise everyone just thinks that all Muslims are not good. and then there will be more difficulties for Muslim people overall"

it means you're actually saying that those people who are ignorant enough to make a bigoted and narrow-minded conclusion are in the right. That you condone their bigotry and that you yourself think this way. Well I'm sorry but there is no way that I, or any of the men in my family that I love, will sacrifice our happiness to validate ourselves or our religion just for the sake of some bigoted and ignorant people who can't realise that we're all in this together.

i am really pissed off!!

it is like every time u accomplish something, it is ruined and u have to start over..

All countries have anti-terrorist forces, we are no difference in that, because we don't want to see anybody dying for no reason...

maybe to join them