AOG - "/// The populations of those countries - which I think is what you are referring to - do not agree withe extreme punishments meted out by their minority extremist governments - much in the same way that our population, and that of the USA did not, and continues not to support our military invasion of other countries. ///
Oh so that is why they all congregate to witness these punishments being carried out do you Andy, and is that why there are so many civil wars taking place because they all want to be peaceful non harming Muslims?"
It is unlike you to clutch at straws like this - and use patently unhelpful scenarios to back your position.
If they 'all' congregated to watch punishments, then the entire nation would surely grind to a halt! But no, a few gather for a variety of reasons - to gawp, to enjoy, to be horrified, because they happen to be there.
In fact, i could generate precisely the same reaction if I stepped out onto my high street and started electrocuting kittens - but i would not take that as a ringing national endoresement of my behaviour!
" ...and is that why there are so many civil wars taking place because they all want to be peaceful non harming Muslims?"
Civil wars may carry the guise of religion - except I don't believe that those in Muslim countries do. You know as well as I do, that wars are about power - the use and expansion of power - nothing else but.
You can dress up a reason for war any way you want - protection, religion, hatred ... the list goes on, but they come back to power, that is what all wars are ever about.
As far as the radical Muslim backlash we receive here - we have only our leaders to blame (not, I hasten to add, the popluation who did not support their military invasions) - invading a country in an effort to enforce democracy (we seem to have dropped the notion of WOMD's now ...) tends to focus the hatred of the extreme few on the invaders, who have given them a cause to fight for.
"And I think that you are wrong to assume that all our population did not support our military involvement in other countries.
Did you witness a huge public outcry with demonstrations, perhaps riots or even a civil war taking place? But we did see many more welcoming our troops back from these involvements."
Er yes, I did! Were you on holiday when the demos took place???
I would wholeheartedly join in the welcome of the troops back from these 'involvements' (what a lovely sanitised word to use!) - but that is because I would welcome the return of anyone from any nation who has returned from war in one piece.
But that is a very long way from supporting their action in going to war in the first place - which I didn't, and don't.
Being a humanitarian and a pacifist is possible without jingoistic flag waving for 'our boys and girls'.