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Originally Posted by raytri
Oh, c'mon Bronco. Don't be so wild-eyed. You're condemning an entire religion for the actions of a few. I'm simply saying that's ridiculous. Condemn the terrorists, not everyone who uses the same holy book.
I don't see Christians turning out in huge numbers to denounce the Westboro Baptist Church nutjobs, do you? Sure, you ask an individual Christian and he'll say they're nuts and don't represent Christianity. But nobody expects Christians to be out marching and waving banners, or to comment every time the WBC idiots picket another funeral.
Which is as it should be. It doesn't make sense to assume that a billion Christians (or a billion Muslims) support terrorism simply because they don't go in front of TV cameras every day to denounce it.
Medieval times. And I've stated many times that large areas of the Muslim world are inhabited by people still living in medieval tribal cultures. So my point is that if they were Christian, they would practice a medieval form of Christianity. The problem is the culture, not the specific religion.
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So by your last statement, it is a pass. Please don't patronize us with saying, "it's just a few". There were hundreds of thousands in every part of the world when this story broke, and the intelligence says that they were whipped into a frenzy by Iran, and Syria.
The bottom line again, this is not the middle east, it is not a muslim country, and what those of us want to say about any religion is our right, it is freedom of speech. You continue to use Christians as some kind of sounding board, tell me how many Christians threatened to kill the artist that mocked Jesus with feces? Disgusting? you bet... threatening his life? didn't happen.