system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: When someone commits a crime in the name of KKK or Hitler, they are looked at as mentally unstable , but when someone commits a crime in the name of Allah and Islam, the ideology is to blame... why is this?
gpt
Your premise is flawed. Most people will regard both situations as blind adherence to ideology. What's different is how those ideologies are themselves broadly perceived, and that depends very much on cultural perspective. For example, very few people who are not themselves fascists or white supremacists would find anything redeeming in Nazism. Meanwhile, if a Christian attacks a gay person in the U.S. while yelling Bible verses, that's seen as one lone nut. But those who are not Christian may view Christianity itself as the source of the madness, rather than the man himself. This is similar to how Islamic societies perceive Islamic terrorism. Since most of them would never do that, they take the No True Scotsman view of it, that these are people who are either not true Muslims, or who have a severely distorted understanding of what they themselves experience as a peaceful religion. But to many outsiders, Islam itself is seen as the problem.