I am a member of a chat room in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I was welcomed there with open arms and everyone there has been great to me. I've had many good discussions over there. But I quit the site today.
One of the members, a college student, had a photo in his signature line. I asked him, very respectufully to remove it. I got back hate (not from him, but from another college student). The silent majority remained silent. My friends over there did not speak up. They sat back and watched as one person spewed hate, cited al-jazzera and blamed all the people she didn't know. She said I was a friend. But when I countered with the fact that she hates my wife, my brother and my sister she basically said that he can hate the people he does not know.
The whole time she stated she hated Americans and Jews, she defended her friendship with me??? She and I had traded messages many times and she was one of the first to welcome me there.
I don't think that the silent majority of Muslims will do a damn thing. I still don't believe that every Muslim is evil and wants to kill every non-Muslim, but perhaps many more believe in those things than I would have previously believed.
Below is the photo I asked to be removed.
(OK....equine scat too.)
