Honestly, are you more apt to thinking a middle-easterner is a more likely a candidate to a terrorist attack?

Question

This is for my research paper and I want honest answers. Even if you're ashamed of them.

Answer 1

Of course, the vast majority of Middle Easterners and Muslims are not terrorists.  However, most terrorists these days are of Middle Eastern or Muslim origin.

So the answer is Yes.

But I don't assume that any Middle Easterner or Muslim is a terrorist, since most of therm are not.

Answer 2

True, there are numerous examples of these folks committing terrorist acts. If you know the snake is poisonous, don't let it near you.

Answer 3

Yes...just like I am more likely to assume that a Hispanic is a drug dealer or a white person is involved with white collar crime.

Answer 4

Yes I do. Only because there are numerous examples to support my prejudiced. Does that make it correct to feel that way, no and I try not to think that way either. But I am not losing any sleep over it.

Answer 5

At this point in time, your question should instead be the statement - We view most terrorists as Middle-Easterners since experience has shown that most of the attacks have been by them.

Answer 6

It depends on your definition of terrorism. For instance, what white Southerners did to blacks, such as hosing little children, bombing them in churches and lynching people, that was also terrorism. Also, in some countries around the world, American policies are seen as terroristic, such as the uninstigated bombing of the plant in the Sudan under Bill Clinton, the "removal" of Jean Bertrand Aristide, a democratically elected leader, from his post as prime minister in Haiti, and the invasion of Iraq.

Terrorism needs to have a broader definition, but it is bogged down in propaganda and really stupid actions by SOME people who are of Middle Eastern descent. However, people who are not blind to international politics, or politics as a whole, do not see Middle Eastern people as having a monopoly on terrorism. Just ask the Palestinians. That's my two cents.