I completely agree with you as far as your description of the manner in which blacks are the ones being coddled and enjoying the most privileges in this country at this point in time, despite still being primarily in the underclass as a result of past slavery/discrimination/dumb welfare state policies, etc.

I do have to take issue with some of your comments about Muslims, however:

You wrote, “Muslims are all vilified and blamed for every criminal act committed by one or a few of them. When one commits any violent crime, it’s automatically branded terrorism, whether or not any terror group takes responsibility. Next, every innocent Muslim is criticized for not taking responsibility and apologizing.”

Can you give me an example of where a “lone wolf” who just happened to be Muslim committed a violent crime and it was branded terrorism despite the lack of any actual terror group taking responsibility (or other connections to such terror groups)? I haven’t heard of such incidents, but maybe I’m just not aware of them (and that’s meant to be a sincere question/statement, not sarcasm).

Also, as far as all Muslims being “vilified and blamed for every criminal act committed by one or a few of them,” my perception is quite different. Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and even George W. Bush went out of their way to avoid ascribing the acts of individuals to an entire religion. (This may well be because these politicians were bankrolled by Saudi oil money, which also accounts for America’s cozy relationship with the extremist-funding theocrats of Saudi Arabia.) Bush famously called Islam a religion of peace after 9/11, while Obama had always studiously avoided drawing connections between terrorist acts and Islamic extremism, even when it was quite obvious that we were dealing with Islamic extremist terrorists. They were bending over backwards not to blame all Muslims, even though, as I’ve documented before, perfectly mainstream Islamic beliefs are, at this point in history, dramatically out of step with the beliefs most of us in the West have on issues pertaining to women’s rights, gay rights and many others (I know you’ve taken issue with some of what I wrote there, but until I have an actual reason to question the statistics I relied on, almost all of which were Pew surveys of a broad swath of Islamic societies and, if anything, were skewed towards more highly educated Muslims, as I explained in my response to you, I’ll believe the numbers rather than anecdotal evidence). In other words, just as there is a very strong P.C.-driven jihad (pardon the term) against the disclosure and dissemination of negative truths pertaining to blacks, the same stigma was attached to such truths pertaining to Muslims in the U.S. and much of Western Europe. This has changed under Trump, of course, but this is because Trump is not afraid to challenge such P.C. orthodoxies and tell the truth as he sees it about various groups.

The reality, as I perceive it, at least, is that there is a problem at the core of the way Islam is practiced in much of the world today, and while it is not inherent to Islam, it is very widespread within Islam at the current historical juncture. In other words, Bush was right insofar as Islam can be “a religion of peace,” but too many Muslims today have beliefs that are not reflective of that ideal. For every one terrorist, there are entire Wahabi/Salafi communities that inspire hard-line extremism. We do a disservice to everyone when we fail to recognize that fact and when we keep funneling money into Saudi Arabia so that it can continue funding the spread of such extremist beliefs throughout the world. What we need to be doing is not fighting against Islam, but rather, working to spread more moderate forms of Islam, which means being a lot more selective about what nations and groups we support financially and militarily. We created the Taliban by funding and arming the extremist Mujahadeen against the Soviets in Afghanistan, for instance, and we created ISIS by deposing Saddam and destabilizing Assad and funding anti-Assad extremists, and we had a big hand in bringing about the Islamic Revolution in Iran by working with Britain to depose a leftist but democratically elected Iranian government in the 50s and installing the unpopular Shah, who was eventually overthrown by the Iranian people in the Islamic Revolution. We deposed Qaddafi and created a vacuum for extremism in Libya. We supported the Muslim Brotherhood’s taking power in Egypt (which they only held temporarily, thank goodness) after they deposed Mubarak. In other words, we’ve had a big role in aiding the spread of extremist beliefs throughout the Muslim world, and if we put a quarter of that same energy into working behind the scenes (never through direct military action, which just alienates people and creates more potential pockets of extremism and terrorism) to spread more moderate Islamic beliefs, we’d see a reversal in the trend towards extremism that we’re seeing today.

Those are some of my views about this issue, but though I’ve read the Quran and have some familiarity with the classical Muslim world through my study of philosophy, as well as some general familiarity with current affairs, I’ll be the first to admit that I am not as up on these issues as I am on race issues, so I could certainly be missing something.