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Submitted by Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah (Australia), Feb 25, 2015 at 22:29

"The original article referred to the relative views and fears of Americans towards Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists."

Yes, I got that.

"My response was in regard to the situation within the USA, where Hindus and Buddhists are essentially a non-entity and remain politically in the background. "

See http://religions.pewforum.org/reports. Are you calling them a 'non-enitity' from a muslim perspective (i.e. kuffar)? Or are they a 'non-entity' simply because they are not making a noise and not whingeing and whining or plotting to kill non-Buddhists and non-Hindus?

Because they are certainly not a non-entity numerically . There are .7% of the population listed as Buddhists in the USA - eclipsing the number of muslims by .1%. .7% Buddhist + .4% Hindu - totalling 1.1% - greatly exceeds the .6% muslim population, would you not agree? So who is the non-entity? And if you still insist it is the Buddhists and Hindus - explain how.

"..Muslims are quite active and direct most of their political venom towards Israel.."

Politically active? Tibetan Buddhists have more reason to be incensed at China's take-over of Tibet - a far larger area and involving larger numbers of people than the descendants of the Jordanian gastarbeiter immigrants in 'Palestine'. Yet we see no such reactions from Buddhists worldwide. No pervasive, corrosive thirst for Chinese blood from disgruntled Buddhists. No such forbearance from the muslim world is apparent. In fact - we even get USA born and bred muslims blaming Israel and the Jews for all the ills of the world. Go figure! Hint: 'projection'

One possibility is that muslims have a massive sense of entitlement (being fed with such absurd and unproven tenets as 'you are the best of peoples' etc - yet consistently managing to behave as the very worst.

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