[1ViciousGSX]

To what was said above ^^^.

I'll use your analogy:
We all know the cops look at our cars and lump us into that "group". Why? Because we as a group earned that reputation, plain and simple. If the idiots among us weren't out there running a 1/4 mile between every stop light, or drifting every corner they come to, etc., maybe the police wouldn't have a reason to do what they do to us on a daily basis. It's funny, but everybody who knows me in my home town will tell you I never street race, period. I know people who do and it's their choice to do so. I don't think it's safe and if I took an innocent life over something that stupid I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

So what has happened to lessen our issues with the police, we started policing ourselves. Stopped the street racing and stupid crap to get them off our backs. If somebody gets stupid in a parking lot with their car, we have asked them to leave or run them off. Now the police don't seemed too bothered by us so much anymore. Sure, I still get the look from cops at times, but I don't get harassed.

One thing nobody has brought up yet, but I think is a very good point. What about the men and women who serve beside the Muslim soldiers? How are they handling it? Are they wondering if they should be keeping an eye on the enemy and the Muslims serving with them? Me, I would have that in the back of my mind the whole time I would be fighting along side of them, wondering when I might become their target.

I'll say it again, I'm not a racist or bigot as others have said or implied in this thread, but I am realist, and the reality is that the Muslim community has a problem with how the few are making the many look. Maybe the Muslim community should start policing itself and get rid of the radicals and their radical beliefs towards the white man. That might go a long way with lifting the "stigma" they have at the moment.