Do posters on forumosa represent (US) expats on Taiwan?

[Charlie_Jack]

@Hanna

. . . and the way everyone else joined in to diss it together.

There was a lively debate along these lines back in January, based on a newspaper report on Taiwanese students dressing up as Arabs and carrying toy rifles. Seeing the recent thread on the subject of Islam, I decided I wasn’t up for a second act. Maybe some others felt the same way. I don’t think everyone here is of one mind about Islam. Here’s a sampling of the “anti-anti-Islam” side in the January discussion:

@the_bear

I had to chew out a coworker last week for coming out with the ludicrous statement “I don’t like Muslims because they’re all terrorists”.

@Dawud

I’m astonished that the predominant local image of “a Muslim” is a guy in an Arab headdress, rather than an Indonesian caregiver. There must be six or seven of them on my block.

@SuiGeneris

An apple is an apple and it is very clear these kids were poking fun at arbs, muslims etc. They were mocking them and picking by far the worst stereo type…that of violence.

@Gain

Morons. Someone should slap the shit out of these dimwitted rugrats and their retarded teachers.

@brobronek

what i think is that muslim ( in general) like any other humans, wake up in the morning and think about how they will make $, their work, their holidays, family and every one struggles depending on how wealthy he is or not.

@Dawud

@OrangeOrganics

@Charlie_Jack

I don’t know how the Arabs (and some other predominantly Muslim societies) would have turned out if the West had left them alone.

Thats so patronizing. Lookup the history of Islam. How would other societies have turned out if Islam had left them alone.

They wouldn’t have learned much algebra…

@Gain

I don’t think people realise how similar the Bible and the Kuran are. The Islam today isn’t that far away from what the Christianity was decades ago.