Over the past few years, I've found myself, over and over, thinking about some of what I've noticed happening re the Muslim religion. Actions were happening that didn't make sense to me. The action that triggered me to write: the massive response to a small Danish cartoon. The cartoon showed the Muslim prophet with his turban turned into a bomb - and Muslim rage was detonated worldwide. Something burst open within me as Muslims raged and protested, demanded that all Danish products be taken off shelves, burned an embassy.

Muslims: millions of Muslim women - 75 million, worldwide, I have read - with their genitals mutilated, many of these women as a consequence dripping urine all their lives. Muslims: suicide bombers and Muslim death squads murdering thousands and thousands of Muslims in the name of the Muslim religion. Muslims: repressing non-Muslims in country after country - so that in Egypt, which prides itself on its supposed religious tolerance, the number of Christians has dropped dramatically - from 40% to 10%, or so I've heard - over the past half century.

Muslims: finally moved to outrage by something truly outrageous, a tiny cartoon in a small publication in a tiny country.

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My quick answer: it shows the truth. The Muslim religion is - or anyway, has been turned into - an instrument of destruction and violence.

While some have written that the truth shall set us free, anyone telling an unpopular truth (civil rights activists in the 1960s, feminists in the 1970s, gay rights activists even now) is likely to be heralded with rage by the majority. Outrage blocks exploration.

But Muslim rage has another powerful fuel: Western sympathy. Instead of shattering the mirror, the West has generally reflected enraged Muslims back to themselves as they wish to be seen - poor hurt victims.

The West is just as good as the Muslim world at not looking at reality. Most recently I turned my eyes on that - seeing the Western emphasis on unthinking tolerance as a poisonous ingredient. Imagine saying live and let live - or all cells are equal - to a cancerous tumor. One has to take a good look at what is happening.

There's also my journey - there's a huge distance from thinking something, to putting the thoughts into words, to deciding to put them out into the world, and then, to daring to do that when all around one hears of the horrors done by Muslim terrorists.

Western Mental Blocks, All Opinions are Equal
FACT TO FACE WITH ... WESTERN CRAZY "THINKING"

Virginia Satir wrote of 5 fundamental freedoms. One is the freedom to see what is here - not what was, should be, could be, will be, might be. A powerful message from much of Islam has been: we are enraged if you criticize, and we refuse to change. That message has been met with enormous compliance from the West: all religions are equal, you have the full right to be offended, not to think, not to be shown as you are. So for the West, there is no freedom to see and explore.

The current widespread Western taboo on thinking, exploring and seeing is a dangerous taboo.

Just be accepting - it sounds like the milk of human kindness. It curdles the blood, the mind.

So, next come explorations of Western nuttiness, starting with Stupid Opinion Number One - the opinion that all opinions are equal, and from that, that all religions are equal.

And again, there's my own journey. I came to write after I had dealt with some of these walls in class after class. No threats. But still very tough to deal with: a thick wall, often thicker than the inpenetrable thorn bushes outside Sleeping Beuaty's castle, solid within many of my students. They wanted tolerance for everyone and everything - could not see their own intolerance of good thinking. I knew I wasn't facing only them, but all the teachers who had taught them, and the society that had formed those teachers.

Over and over I've heard that the Muslim religion is a religion of peace - with no quotes given to back up the assertion. On the other hand, I've heard many Muslims quote the Koran to show it's not a religion of peace.

For myself, I believe that actions speak louder than words - and I keep hearing of Muslim violence (of course, neither committed nor approved of by many Muslims). Still, stories stay in my mind - like the case of a CARE worker in Iraq murdered by Muslim captors after she had spent more than 30 years helping poor Muslims in Iraq. Her Muslim husband was on the air begging for her safety. There was no Muslim worldwide protest of her murder. Thousands of imams did not raise their voices against her murder. The outrage, once again, was saved for a small Danish cartoon.

One small question: if Islam is a religion of peace, why am I bothering to explore how to stop terrorism? Zen Buddhism - known as a religion of peace - does not elicit explorations of terrorism.

For those of you interested in looking at religious texts, I provide more of an exploration as well as links to websites of people versed in the Koran.

One big question I am left with is: why are Muslim moderates not protesting en masse? Why are millions of Muslim moderates not taking to the street worldwide, week after week, voicing their outrage at Muslim atrocities? Why do I so often hear Muslim identifying as moderate insist that the Muslim religion is a religion of peace - and yet I only hear most of them voice outrage over the Danish cartoon, and not the many Muslim violations of peacefulness.

Over and over I have heard Muslim moderates speaking out against anything they don't want to hear about the Muslim religion. I have heard far fewer look closely at what is happening, and speak out against what they disagree with.

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"You have nothing to fear but fear itself." It's a famous quote. It doesn't fit all situations. It certainly doesn't fit what is happening with Islam. Death threats. Actual widespread murdering.

Plus there is the internalized fear instilled into many of those within the religion, those who believe, that if they go against what they are told they will be punished by their deity. Hell. Fear - a very powerful tool for keeping people in line, supposedly faithful, actually too scared to think - like rabbits frozen by headlights. (Christianity has also used this tool enormously well, more in the past - but wonderfully, love is replacing fear in many branches.)

The list of those menaced by Muslims is long - menaced by violence, by murder, by the horror of hell after death. The Danish cartoonist is just one of many of those menaced. A plot to murder him was recently foiled. (Religion of peace???!!!)

I have taken a long journey here. I would also like to ask you: where are you on this journey, in every area of your life?

There is a lot of ground for hope. There is something called a tipping point - when all of a sudden things change. I don't know what it will take to break the hold of the kind of Islam so prevalent these days - or the hold of the mental barriers so prevalent in the West.

I know that here in Quebec, Canada, the tipping point came quite suddenly about 40 years ago, when suddenly the rigid Catholicism that had held sway for centuries seemed to vanish, as if something seemingly rigid and solid had evaporated. The tipping point, of course, can go away from good things (as democratic Germany, in 1933, tipped over into Nazi Germany) as strikingly as it can go toward something better.

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I would like the walls to come down - the walls around so many Western minds and so many Muslim minds.

I also come to what I see as a core quality, blocked easily in humans. Easy to stop its formation, and essential to a world of far greater deep peace.

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I am brimming with ideas, questions, thoughts.

And around me, most often I have come up against walls. One must be tolerant. One must not question religion. One must be accepting. I have slowly dragged myself out of the swamp of unthinking tolerance. It never felt right to be there. But it has taken a long time to put my ideas together.

I identified with Al Gore, in his journey in An Inconvenient Truth. He was trying to convey his truth for twenty years - his growing truth, his ever more inconvenient truth with the evidence mounting ever higher. What I admired most: he didn't give up. He kept working at saying his truth in an ever better, clearer way. No one would have faulted him for giving up, faced with the dragon of a presidential campaign scuttled by someone from the left as well as a stupid crook on the right - stupid but very powerful and with powerful friends and family. But he did not give up. And now there it is, An Inconvenient Truth, for all to see.

Of course he hasn't been alone in what he's been seeing - and likewise I'm not alone.

So what have I seen, and what am I trying to convey?

I'm trying to convey what seems to be a good route in the quest to figure out how to stop terrorism. Here's some of what I look at:

DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE. WHAT IS TOLERANCE.

The West's insistence, these days, on tolerance is just an dangerous as its previously generally closed mind to the equality of women and men, of people of all races and sexual orientations. It has just taken its generally closed mind and, having let in a few truths, kept parts of its mind as closed as ever. Rigidly closed. That's not just stupid but dangerous.

HISTORY OF MUSLIM RELIGION. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.

I'm not great at going out and getting facts. I am good at mulling over the facts that do come my way. So one fact that hit me in the face was that there was huge Muslim outrage over a small Danish cartoon but no huge Muslim outrage over Muslim murder of others (mainly Muslims, at that), over massive amounts of genital mutilation, etc. Instead of outrage at millions of mutilations, over and over I heard that Westerners had no right to pass judgment over other cultures. Strangely, that argument was not used to say we had no right to judge Communist repression, Nazi horrors. Once again, that made no sense. I was not given any grounds, by the way, as to why I should be selectively blind, selectively able to evaluate information (Communism - good to judge; Islam - bad to judge).

Though the disproportionate outrage over one cartoon was enough of a fact for me to see that something very wrong was going on, it makes sense to do much more exploring of facts - such as on the history of the Muslim religion.

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(such as, we have hurt others with past judging, so all judging is bad).

I do pay attention to facts. My bigger pleasure, though, is thinking about them, puzzling things out.

So a tiny fact - the unwarranted tempest about a cartoon - was enough to set me off on an exploration of a religion, of ways of thinking, manipulations of reality, a slow danger.

I have explored most fully my home culture - the West - because it is much of that culture which has stayed silent, as if paralyzed by its rhetoric of tolerance and acceptance, as if trapped in a poisonous web - so that the ideology of tolerance and acceptance, instead of freeing and opening minds, has been used - not only to not think - but to attempt to shut up people, like myself, ready and eager to explore - rather like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, managing to get out of even a pit of writhing snakes. Here the snakes hiss, you must not be judgmental, you have not right to judge another religion, who are you to know, all opinions are equal, every religion is equal.

Not easy, when one does not want to intone accepted doctrines.

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			WESTERN TOLERANCE and ISLAM seen through my curious eyes ___________ Muslims, a Danish Cartoon ... and Me THE BEGINNING Over the past few years, I've found myself, over and over, thinking about some of what I've noticed happening re the Muslim religion. Actions were happening that didn't make sense to me. The action that triggered me to write: the massive response to a small Danish cartoon. The cartoon showed the Muslim prophet with his turban turned into a bomb - and Muslim rage was detonated worldwide. Something burst open within me as Muslims raged and protested, demanded that all Danish products be taken off shelves, burned an embassy. Muslims: millions of Muslim women - 75 million, worldwide, I have read - with their genitals mutilated, many of these women as a consequence dripping urine all their lives. Muslims: suicide bombers and Muslim death squads murdering thousands and thousands of Muslims in the name of the Muslim religion. Muslims: repressing non-Muslims in country after country - so that in Egypt, which prides itself on its supposed religious tolerance, the number of Christians has dropped dramatically - from 40% to 10%, or so I've heard - over the past half century. Muslims: finally moved to outrage by something truly outrageous, a tiny cartoon in a small publication in a tiny country. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON MY JOURNEY. articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims Click here for the first article: THE RAGE OF THE "RIGHTEOUS". how to stop terrorism, articles on terrorism ** Islam, a Danish Cartoon ... and Me THE EXPLORATION CONTINUES Why the Muslim outage over a small Danish cartoon? My quick answer: it shows the truth. The Muslim religion is - or anyway, has been turned into - an instrument of destruction and violence. While some have written that the truth shall set us free, anyone telling an unpopular truth (civil rights activists in the 1960s, feminists in the 1970s, gay rights activists even now) is likely to be heralded with rage by the majority. Outrage blocks exploration. But Muslim rage has another powerful fuel: Western sympathy. Instead of shattering the mirror, the West has generally reflected enraged Muslims back to themselves as they wish to be seen - poor hurt victims. The West is just as good as the Muslim world at not looking at reality. Most recently I turned my eyes on that - seeing the Western emphasis on unthinking tolerance as a poisonous ingredient. Imagine saying live and let live - or all cells are equal - to a cancerous tumor. One has to take a good look at what is happening. There's also my journey - there's a huge distance from thinking something, to putting the thoughts into words, to deciding to put them out into the world, and then, to daring to do that when all around one hears of the horrors done by Muslim terrorists. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON MY JOURNEY AND MY THINKING. articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims Click here for related articles: MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL TOXIC WESTERN TOLERANCE. how to stop terrorism Western Mental Blocks, All Opinions are Equal FACT TO FACE WITH ... WESTERN CRAZY "THINKING" Virginia Satir wrote of 5 fundamental freedoms. One is the freedom to see what is here - not what was, should be, could be, will be, might be. A powerful message from much of Islam has been: we are enraged if you criticize, and we refuse to change. That message has been met with enormous compliance from the West: all religions are equal, you have the full right to be offended, not to think, not to be shown as you are. So for the West, there is no freedom to see and explore. The current widespread Western taboo on thinking, exploring and seeing is a dangerous taboo. Just be accepting - it sounds like the milk of human kindness. It curdles the blood, the mind. So, next come explorations of Western nuttiness, starting with Stupid Opinion Number One - the opinion that all opinions are equal, and from that, that all religions are equal. I also look at some ingredients of good sane thinking. And again, there's my own journey. I came to write after I had dealt with some of these walls in class after class. No threats. But still very tough to deal with: a thick wall, often thicker than the inpenetrable thorn bushes outside Sleeping Beuaty's castle, solid within many of my students. They wanted tolerance for everyone and everything - could not see their own intolerance of good thinking. I knew I wasn't facing only them, but all the teachers who had taught them, and the society that had formed those teachers. CLICK HERE FOR MY JOURNEY THROUGH WESTERN WEAKENSSES. Click here for articles on Western weaknesses and suggested remedies: Stupid Opinion Number One Meets Elsa, Walls in the Mind, How to Think - Tip Number one, The Ingredients of Good Thinking, Breaking the Spell of Stupid Opinions articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims Is the Muslim Religion a Religion of Peace? - GETTING INFORMATION ON ISLAM And then, back to the exploration of Islam, the the quest for solutions. Over and over I've heard that the Muslim religion is a religion of peace - with no quotes given to back up the assertion. On the other hand, I've heard many Muslims quote the Koran to show it's not a religion of peace. For myself, I believe that actions speak louder than words - and I keep hearing of Muslim violence (of course, neither committed nor approved of by many Muslims). Still, stories stay in my mind - like the case of a CARE worker in Iraq murdered by Muslim captors after she had spent more than 30 years helping poor Muslims in Iraq. Her Muslim husband was on the air begging for her safety. There was no Muslim worldwide protest of her murder. Thousands of imams did not raise their voices against her murder. The outrage, once again, was saved for a small Danish cartoon. One small question: if Islam is a religion of peace, why am I bothering to explore how to stop terrorism? Zen Buddhism - known as a religion of peace - does not elicit explorations of terrorism. For those of you interested in looking at religious texts, I provide more of an exploration as well as links to websites of people versed in the Koran. CLICK HERE FOR MORE EXPLORATION OF THIS QUESTION. articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims The Role of Muslim Moderates One big question I am left with is: why are Muslim moderates not protesting en masse? Why are millions of Muslim moderates not taking to the street worldwide, week after week, voicing their outrage at Muslim atrocities? Why do I so often hear Muslim identifying as moderate insist that the Muslim religion is a religion of peace - and yet I only hear most of them voice outrage over the Danish cartoon, and not the many Muslim violations of peacefulness. Over and over I have heard Muslim moderates speaking out against anything they don't want to hear about the Muslim religion. I have heard far fewer look closely at what is happening, and speak out against what they disagree with. Urgently needed: change among Muslims moderates. CLICK HERE FOR MORE EXPLORATION OF THIS QUESTION. articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims MORE IDEA PIECES: The Pope Speaks and Muslims Protest, The Rottweiler Pope and Muslim Moderates, A Dangerous Temptation - Counter-Hostility CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THESE PIECES. how to stop terrorism CLICK HERE TO GO RIGHT TO ... The Pope Speaks and Muslims Protest outraged Muslims protest, kill nun, demand apology - more rage of the so-called righteous The Rottweiler Pope, The Danish Cartoon and Muslim Moderates the pope's remarks and the Danish cartoon - help or hindrance? A Dangerous Temptation - Reverse Discrimination the lure of hating back and hurting back articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims AN ONGOING BARRIER - FEAR "You have nothing to fear but fear itself." It's a famous quote. It doesn't fit all situations. It certainly doesn't fit what is happening with Islam. Death threats. Actual widespread murdering. Plus there is the internalized fear instilled into many of those within the religion, those who believe, that if they go against what they are told they will be punished by their deity. Hell. Fear - a very powerful tool for keeping people in line, supposedly faithful, actually too scared to think - like rabbits frozen by headlights. (Christianity has also used this tool enormously well, more in the past - but wonderfully, love is replacing fear in many branches.) The list of those menaced by Muslims is long - menaced by violence, by murder, by the horror of hell after death. The Danish cartoonist is just one of many of those menaced. A plot to murder him was recently foiled. (Religion of peace???!!!) I have taken a long journey here. I would also like to ask you: where are you on this journey, in every area of your life? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THIS EXPLORATION. articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims THE HOPE There is a lot of ground for hope. There is something called a tipping point - when all of a sudden things change. I don't know what it will take to break the hold of the kind of Islam so prevalent these days - or the hold of the mental barriers so prevalent in the West. I know that here in Quebec, Canada, the tipping point came quite suddenly about 40 years ago, when suddenly the rigid Catholicism that had held sway for centuries seemed to vanish, as if something seemingly rigid and solid had evaporated. The tipping point, of course, can go away from good things (as democratic Germany, in 1933, tipped over into Nazi Germany) as strikingly as it can go toward something better. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON HOPE. articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims WHAT DO I WANT? perception, critical thinking and ... I would like the walls to come down - the walls around so many Western minds and so many Muslim minds. For myself, I want: to see accurately, to think well, to speak truthfully. I think of a story, The Emperor's New Clothes. I also come to what I see as a core quality, blocked easily in humans. Easy to stop its formation, and essential to a world of far greater deep peace. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON WHAT WE NEED TO DEVELOP. articles on terrorism, how to stop terrorism, middle east religions, islam basic beliefs, radical muslims There's more of everything - of each of the topics touched on above. There are also lots of individual idea pieces. The menu is on the left - for pieces on everything from: The Rage of the Righteous to Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who is that Horror in the Hall? to Political Correctness and Fundamentalism - Different Sides of the Same Dangerous Coin? I wish you good thinking, signed, Elsa March 23, 2008 copyright Elsa Schieder, 2008, 2011, all rights reserved Click here to go from How To Stop Terrorism, to The Rage of the "Righteous". Click here to go from How To Stop Terrorism, to Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who Is That Horror in the Hall*? Click here to go to an overview of all the pieces. How to Stop Terrorism? Explore: Definition of Tolerance, History of Muslim Religion, Freedom of Religion in America, Benefits of Critical Thinking, Terrorist Ideology, Middle East Facts. top of page* HOW TO STOP TERRORISM. DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE. WHAT IS TOLERANCE. HISTORY OF MUSLIM RELIGION. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE. FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN AMERICA AND EUROPE. BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING. TERRORIST IDEOLOGY. MIDDLE EAST FACTS. MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS. HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? START WITH GOOD THINKING, PART OF THE BENEIFTS OF CRITICAL THINKING. HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? - THINK ABOUT ... CURRENT EVENTS MIDDLE EAST, MIDDLE EAST SOLUTION, TYPES OF RELIGION, COMPARISON OF RELIGIONS, COMPARE RELIGIONS, AND COMPARING RELIGION DARE TO COME TO CONCLUSIONS. HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? LOOK AT ... ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS. ISLAM BELIEFS. ISLAM PEOPLE. ISLAM CULTURE. ARTICLES ON TERRORISM. DEFINITION TERRORISM. TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST. MUSLIM CARTOON. MUSOIM CARTOONS. RADICAL MUSLIM. MUSLIM VIOLENCE. ARAB ANGER. SLOW DANGER. ISLAM FAITH. ANTI ISLAM. TERRORIST TACTICS. HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? EXPLORE ... SUICIDE TERRORISTS. SELF RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE. RELIGIOUS TERRORISM. RAGE DISORDER. WAKE UP RAGE. RAGE ANGER. NARCISSTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. ACQUIRED SITUATIONAL NARCISSISM. HOW TO STOP TERRORISM? EXPLORE AND THEN EXPLORE SOME MORE ... How to Stop Terrorism? And How to Stop Bad Thinking? I am brimming with ideas, questions, thoughts. And around me, most often I have come up against walls. One must be tolerant. One must not question religion. One must be accepting. I have slowly dragged myself out of the swamp of unthinking tolerance. It never felt right to be there. But it has taken a long time to put my ideas together. I identified with Al Gore, in his journey in An Inconvenient Truth. He was trying to convey his truth for twenty years - his growing truth, his ever more inconvenient truth with the evidence mounting ever higher. What I admired most: he didn't give up. He kept working at saying his truth in an ever better, clearer way. No one would have faulted him for giving up, faced with the dragon of a presidential campaign scuttled by someone from the left as well as a stupid crook on the right - stupid but very powerful and with powerful friends and family. But he did not give up. And now there it is, An Inconvenient Truth, for all to see. Of course he hasn't been alone in what he's been seeing - and likewise I'm not alone. So what have I seen, and what am I trying to convey? I'm trying to convey what seems to be a good route in the quest to figure out how to stop terrorism. Here's some of what I look at: DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE. WHAT IS TOLERANCE. The West's insistence, these days, on tolerance is just an dangerous as its previously generally closed mind to the equality of women and men, of people of all races and sexual orientations. It has just taken its generally closed mind and, having let in a few truths, kept parts of its mind as closed as ever. Rigidly closed. That's not just stupid but dangerous. HISTORY OF MUSLIM RELIGION. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE. I'm not great at going out and getting facts. I am good at mulling over the facts that do come my way. So one fact that hit me in the face was that there was huge Muslim outrage over a small Danish cartoon but no huge Muslim outrage over Muslim murder of others (mainly Muslims, at that), over massive amounts of genital mutilation, etc. Instead of outrage at millions of mutilations, over and over I heard that Westerners had no right to pass judgment over other cultures. Strangely, that argument was not used to say we had no right to judge Communist repression, Nazi horrors. Once again, that made no sense. I was not given any grounds, by the way, as to why I should be selectively blind, selectively able to evaluate information (Communism - good to judge; Islam - bad to judge). Though the disproportionate outrage over one cartoon was enough of a fact for me to see that something very wrong was going on, it makes sense to do much more exploring of facts - such as on the history of the Muslim religion. So how to stop terrorism? GET MORE INFO ON: FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN AMERICA AND EUROPE, AND ALSO THE HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS REPRESSION AND RELIGOUS WARS. TERRORIST IDEOLOGY. MIDDLE EAST FACTS. MIDDLE EAST RELIGIONS. CURRENT EVENTS MIDDLE EAST. MIDDLE EAST SOLUTION. TYPES OF RELIGION. ISLAM BASIC BELIEFS. ISLAM BELIEFS. ISLAM PEOPLE. ISLAM CULTURE. How to stop terrorism? ARTICLES ON TERRORISM. DEFINITION FOR TERRORISM. TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST. MUSLIM CARTOON. MUSOIM CARTOONS. RADICAL MUSLIM. MUSLIM VIOLENCE. ARAB ANGER. SLOW DANGER. ISLAM FAITH. ANTI ISLAM. TERRORIST TACTICS. SUICIDE TERRORISTS. SELF RIGHTEOUS SUICIDE. RELIGIOUS TERRORISM. How to stop terrorism? RESEARCH: RAGE IDSORDER. WAKE UP RAGE. RAGE ANGER. NARCISSTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. ACQUIRED SITUATIONAL NARCISSISM. How to stop terrorism? GOOD THINKING IS ENERMOUSLY HELPFUL, SO EXPLORE: THE BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING, OF RECOGNIZING WHAT IS A LOGICAL FALLACY, WHAT ARE LOGICAL FALLACIES (such as, we have hurt others with past judging, so all judging is bad). I do pay attention to facts. My bigger pleasure, though, is thinking about them, puzzling things out. So a tiny fact - the unwarranted tempest about a cartoon - was enough to set me off on an exploration of a religion, of ways of thinking, manipulations of reality, a slow danger. I have explored most fully my home culture - the West - because it is much of that culture which has stayed silent, as if paralyzed by its rhetoric of tolerance and acceptance, as if trapped in a poisonous web - so that the ideology of tolerance and acceptance, instead of freeing and opening minds, has been used - not only to not think - but to attempt to shut up people, like myself, ready and eager to explore - rather like Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, managing to get out of even a pit of writhing snakes. Here the snakes hiss, you must not be judgmental, you have not right to judge another religion, who are you to know, all opinions are equal, every religion is equal. Not easy, when one does not want to intone accepted doctrines. Elsa, brain trainer always looking with ideas cooking March 24, 2008 copyright © Elsa Schieder 2008, 2011, all rights reserved publishing house - FlufferDuff Impressions 2008, 2011 THE IDEA EMPORIUM on HOW TO STOP TERRORISM and much more: IDEA * EVALUATION * CONCLUSION * INSIGHT * COMMENTARY * CONTROVERSY * INTELLECTUAL CONFLICTS * CONFLICTING VERSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS * DIFFICULT AREAS * OPINION * WELL-REASONED OPINION * UNFOUNDED OPINION * STUPID OPINION * THEORY * THEORIZING * FEMINIST THEORIES * PERCEPTION * PERCEPTIONS * PERSPECTIVES * PSYCHOANALYTICAL THEORIES * ENVORINMENTAL CONCERNS * ANALYSIS * DISCOVERING UNDERLYING CAUSES * AMBIVALENCES * AMBIGUITIES * FEAR OF AND RAGE AGAINST IDEAS * FEAR OF EXPRESSING IDEAS * HOW TO STOP TERRORISM ANTI-THINKING TERRORISM * ANTI-INTELLECTUAL TERRORISM * FALLACIES * FLAWED REASONING * HOW TO STOP TERRORISM * THE RAGE AGAINST UNWANTED IDEAS * THE RAGE AGAINST UNWANTED VISONS OF REALITY * THE IDEA EMPORIUM * THE IDEA EMPORIUM * THE IDEA EMPORIUM * THE IDEA EMPORIUM BLINKERS AGAINST PERCEPTION * BARRIERS TO THINKING * BARRIERS TO REASONING * INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION * STIMULATING IDEAS * FERTILE THOUGHT * VIEWPOINTS * UNDERSTANDINGS * COMPLEXITIES * UNCERTAINTIES * GUESSES * HUNCHES * FACTS * GUT FEELINGS ABOUT THINGS * EXPLORING IDEAS * EXPLORATIONS OF IDEAS * EXPERIMENTS TO VERIFY IDEAS * REALITIES * REASONING * IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS * THOUGHT OF THE DAY * PERCEPTION * PERSPECTIVE * DATA * INFORMATION * OPINION PIECES * LOGICAL THINKING * CRITICAL THOUGHT * INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS * IDEA THE IDEA EMPORIUM explores HOW TO STOP TERRORISM MORE ... 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How to Stop Terrorism? Explore: Definition of Tolerance, History of Muslim Religion, Freedom of Religion in America, Benefits of Critical Thinking, Terrorist Ideology, Middle East Facts.

How to Stop Terrorism? And How to Stop Bad Thinking?

DEFINITION OF TOLERANCE. WHAT IS TOLERANCE.

HISTORY OF MUSLIM RELIGION. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.

How to Stop Terrorism? Explore: Definition of Tolerance,
History of Muslim Religion, Freedom of Religion in America,
Benefits of Critical Thinking, Terrorist Ideology, Middle East Facts.