“When we hear people say Muslim youth are becoming extreme, we’d go, ‘Hold up,’ ” said Omar Zarka, a UCLA engineering graduate student, turning to his left and right as if looking for extremists. “We don’t see any of it. Whatever, dude.”
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The study and ongoing debate among Muslims has raised the question of whether homegrown terrorism is a real issue. It also highlights a rare divide in a community that typically operates in a top-down manner.
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Question:
Why are you and so many other ethnic groups part of a “community” that “operates in a top-down manner”?
Why do Muslims and others constantly present themselves as members of a “community” obeying orders from a leader when they should be operating as autonomous individuals?
I don’t have a ****ing “community” and don’t want one. It just isn’t… normal. Communities are like unions: they’re for cowardly losers.
Why do we want to encourage communitarianism in North America, when everything great has been invented and promoted by individuals?
