I agree entirely; It was me that expanded on what you said, and sort of concluded on my own expansion - which is my bad. When people from your community commit terrible acts over a longer period of time I think it is important to show to others that you can be self critical and hopefully be able to build reforms over these issues, now I know this is something that is happening on a smaller scale (that is possibly not covered as much as it maybe should be in the media). But (and I know this is entirely subjective) is this not a too small a portion of the community to not be worried?
Backed up by numbers supporting the introduction of barbaric religious laws from over 2000 years ago ( http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/t...iety-overview/ ) I find myself worried. I've seen plenty of marches on the news about palestine being opressed but none about muslims being upset their faith is being used in such a way by extremists.
When a community has threatening elements which are not (atleast publicly) condemned (mostly by lack of omission) it seems like a natural escalation that people grow suspicious of such a community. I think the community lacks the critical reflective views that are needed to stop this downward circle; and them claiming this victim role is a direct result of this. If someone punches you in the face, then gets punched back and falls to the ground crying you wouldn't percieve them as a victim either. This disparity in perceptives is what's at root to a lot of todays issues.. according to little ole me that is. At this moment in time self reform, atleast the possibility for it, is a must for the muslim community, but without percieving (or without the possibility to acknowledge) the problems themselves there will not be a cause for this.
The way things are now muslim culture will remain immutable, and there will consistently come a time when their neighbouring communities get fed up with that attitude, which causes the many clashes around the globe.
Having written that I do think that, especially due to the subjective nature of 'when are they resistant enough to these elements they don't at all identify with' that some caution is warranted, on both sides of this devillish coin. Too little scrutiny and the neccisary reforms may not happen for a long time, too much scrutiny and you bolster the fringe elements that are causing the terrible events in recent times; definetly a balancing act that fuels plenty a debate.
Just to clarify, I think it is factually correct that the people that last faced the same level of scrutiny is indeed probably the jewish community.
-oh before I forget
proselytize is my word of the day, TIL!