As someone with a Muslim background, and as a person who has a practising Muslim mother and sister, I find this article very insulting and racist. You have called us all creatures and vermin based on what faith we were born into. My mother or sister would never, ever hurt even a fly.

How dare you decide that just because someone is Muslim, they WILL terrorise. And to say we’re “un-civilised” is also quite insulting… Just the words filthy bush monkey are bad enough… I am not religious, and never have been, but I don’t think the problem is Islam.

The problem is Wahabi Islam. Sufi Islam, the background many of us come from, is very tolerant and peaceful. In Sufi Islam, God is love and as long as you devote your life loving God, therefore all creatures, then you’re fine. Killing would never, ever be tolerated.

Please realise that when people talk about Muslims like this, you are really proving to even the moderate ones that you really don’t care. And there are MILLIONS of liberal, secular thinking Muslims. That you would like to shoot me in the head because of what I look like.

I don’t ever come to the US on principle because I refuse to have my humanity and dignity compromised. We all want to feel safe, but not at the cost of dehumanising and degrading others. Not at the cost of deep violation of human rights.

I’m sorry if I sound like I’m rambling. I’m still trying to digest your clearly xenophobic words and wounded by them. To think you want to mutilate and torture us based on the actions of a few idiots… we, Pakistanis, are being killed left, right and centre by these fundamentalists. We hate them too. They’re all over. But… over 700 innocent Pakistanis were killed by US drone attacks in this year alone. Only a dozen terrorists were killed in these attacks.

It just sickens me how little our lives are valued. If we will continue to be treated like such shit, how can you expect us to not want to harm those who are oppressing us? It’s human nature to only cooperate with those who you feel will benefit you- not kill you. And if you want us to behave and become “civilised” then stop treating us like animals and telling us that we’re apes who deserved to be killed just because the US says so.

I’m someone who always speaks up against some of the rabid anti-Americanism here, but how will I be able to placate anyone who reads this and is convinced that Muslims and Islam are in danger? How will I prevent them from going running to the other side? How will I live with myself knowing that their anger is as justified as yours?

John, you’ve read my work for a long time. Am I a rabid monkey? An uncivilised terrorist? Do I sound like someone who would pick up a gun? Or someone who would preach violence? Do I sound less intelligent than anyone else because I’m Brown?

I, for one, am very proud of my family’s background as one of the earliest Muslims in the sub-continent. The women of the family were in politics, education, philosophy… they were writers and matriarchs. And they were deeply Muslim but they never, ever thought, for a minute, that they were better than anyone else. Actually the women had even more rights than the women in the West at the time. They had the right to own property and get inheritance.

To say that Islam and Muslims are the problem is too simplistic and I’m afraid you’ll be quite unsuccessful unless you start becoming more sympathetic.

Why isn’t anyone talking about how Saudi Arabia is a massive problem? Where do you think funding for Wahabi brainwashing and terrorism comes from? I know the West knows this, but will happily roll out the red carpet when the Sheikhs arrive, too scared to piss them off because of all their money and oil.

Killing innocent Pakistanis, for example, will not EVER eliminate the problem. The root is Saudi Arabia and Wahabi Islam, which the US is watering instead of plucking out!

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