I think violence such as Chechnya has witnessed can desensitise a lot of people to violence. There can be a lot anger and injustice, a pride in one's people at fighting for themselves, a taste for vengeance, and so on. And that's not just going to be Russia, it's going to be a more general mindset. And that will cause people to be tipped more easily into violence.
Even if we assume that all of that is true, it's still violence targeted at one particular person over one particular thing.
It's all a spectrum. No Muslims like their prophet being insulted, many would like to stop it happening, and a tiny few might be moved to violence. Few people like their country being insulted, many would like to stop it happening, and a tiny few will be moved to violence. What really is different here?
Keep this statement in mind for the next quote.
Let's go back to something Terminal Blue mentioned, about all the trans people murdered every year, many for no apparent reason other than being trans. Why do you think that happens? Who gets so offended about someone else happening to be non-gender conforming, and why aren't there headlines and debate threads every time it happens?
So you haven't done this directly, but youve more or less equated all violence being equivalent - equivalent scale with equivalent reasons. Let's look at them.
Yes, no-one likes being insulted. We can go down the spectrum to people who carry out violence. However, Islamic terrorism gets a lot of the spotlight because the vast majority of terrorism is Islamic on the global scale. This is a fact. At this point you might go "well what about right wing terrorism," and yes, in places like the US, right wing terrorism is more deadly than Islamic terrorism. But again, to that I say:
a) This thread isn't about right wing terrorism.
b) No-one is worried about hurting the feelings of the alt-right
c) Global vs. local - what's the bigger issue?
Now, you equted this to the trans issue. I'm not sure what this exactly has to do with anything, but okay. To your post:
-There may be some trans individuals who are murdered solely for being trans, but that isn't the be all and end all. Part of why trans people are over-represented in murders is that factors put them at risk. As in, you're more likely to be homeless, ergo, more likely to be murdered. I'm not excusing this, but that isn't equivalent to Islamic terrorism, which in these cases, is highly directed.
-There's no shortage of headlines, I'm not sure what you're going on about there.
-If we're doing this on sheer scale, again, Islamic terrorism is a much larger issue. Trans people being murdered becomes an issue when you consider the per capita rate. In absolute rates, it's dwarfed.
-If you're asking about debate threads, I dunno. Reminder that I didn't create this thread. I rarely create threads. I didn't bother creating this thread because I didn't think there'd be much to talk about. More fool me I guess.
So, I'd sort of distill this down into the bottom line that some people are unusually inclined to violence. They are because of all sorts of individual psychological and societal reasons. If you piss these people off the wrong way, they might attack or even kill you. The oddity is not that some Muslims do this, it's that we pick on Muslim violence as somehow especially noteworthy, when in fact it goes on all the time in all sectors of the populace for all manner of reasons.
It is especially noteworthy when you consider the scale.
Again, there's about 4000 religions in the world. We can probably boil that down to a handful. But when one religion commits over 90% of all terrorist attacks, do you think there might be a connection between that religion and the figure? Or is it a coincidence?
And look, Islamic terrorism isn't the biggest problem from where I'm standing. My first opinion on this thread was "the religion of peace strikes again," because I've had 20 years to be desensitzed to this kind of violence - same attacks, same people dying, same excuses, I'm done. I'll gladly suffer continued attacks in exchange for the larger issues being focused on. But somehow, it's gone down the route of "whataboutism" or "not all Muslims." And I agree, of course not all Muslims. But when I've vented my spleen at, say, Christianity, I never get "not all Christians," and when I've expressed discontent at Israel, I don't get "not all Jews," but with this, suddenly the conversation changes when it comes to Islam.
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