To tip700, I just saw the a Hannity and Colmes clip, I'll dig it up and post it when I get home on a larger bandwidth, turns out most of the members of this church are all related.atlvolunteer wrote:
Haha I got a neg. karma for starting this thread with no comment! Gotta love it!If this happened then it is good to hear. It seems to me that usually when these "extremists" do something, the "moderate" muslims remain silent. If they don't want us to associate them with the extremists, they need to open their mouths and denounce what they are doing.CameronPoe wrote:
Official apologies were made by certain muslim partiesIf you had read all of the post preceding yours, you would see that most christians outspokenly opposed what these nutcases did.tip700 wrote:
i also remember seeing picture and video footage of some sorta christian organisaiton compaigning at dead soldiers funerals that they were punished by god and god would cleanse everyone or some shit, i agree with the comment every religoun has its extremists
The main difference between Islam and other religions is that no one in Islam is making a concerted effort to put a stop to this behavior. Where is the Islamic Ghandi (Hindu), MLK Jr. (protestant christian), Mother Theresa (catholic), etc. The last Muslim extremist to see the error of his racist/supremist ways was Malcolm X, and he was executed shortly thereafter. So there are a few Islamic leaders that make press releases denouncing the activities of the bombers, this amounts to doing the least possible to save face on the international front. Yes christianity has had it's extremists like the KKK, who's founding member disbanded it when it became race centered, but it was other christians that shut them down. When was the last time you saw a Barry Goldstein blow himself up on a bus full of college students in the name of Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob? I've also noticed that people like to bring up the crusades when talking about this subject, for one, that was about a thousand years ago too many to be relevant here, and two, Islam was just as much a part of it as Christianity. It takes two to tango, so to say, you can't hold one party solely responsible when they were both acting on the same doctrine, just with different names for their respective deities.
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