Who is to Blame for Muslim Violence?

When a man walks onto a bus knowing that a minute later he will be dead along with dozens of innocent people, one asks the question, “Who is to blame for this atrocious action?” Is it the man’s fault that he made the decision to massacre these people or is it the situation that he grew up in that made him the way he is?

For over a decade, certain groups of people believe that Israel is to blame for terror committed against Israelis by Palestinian Muslims. After all, what else are the Palestinians supposed to do? For some people, it is the victims of Islamic violence responsible for that violence.

Let’s look back to 9/11. Thousands of Americans were killed by Islamic terrorists and the justification for this action, some people will say, is because the U.S. has been treating the Middle East terrible for too long.

Who is to blame when Muslim rioters looted for a month in France? The answer for the Left would be France because they do not know how to incorporate immigrants.

A great way to understand the moral differences between conservatives and liberals is to ask who is to blame for acts of evil crimes committed against innocent people. Most conservatives will blame the perpetrator while most liberals blame either the victims group or the circumstances.

My last example will be the L.A. riots where a vast majority of blacks set fire to stores and murdered innocent employees and owners in certain sections of the city. Who is to blame for this atrocity? Are we supposed to understand the anger of these people when looking at America’s racism? If we do the latter, America will justify every evil action done by criminals and immediately blame the unfortunate socioeconomic and other circumstances of the person’s life.

We are responsible for our own actions, not a radical group that we have submitted our ideology to.

We do not know where and when the next Islamic attack will occur. All we can know is that some people will find reasons to hold the targeted group largely responsible.

--Armando
armando@csulb.net