This is a discussion board last that I checked. Is Opi immune from defending her statements in her first post? Afterall, she brought religion into the news media coverage of the hijacking, and it is she who is making a premise that she does't seem to be able to defend.

Perhaps if you had asked nicely she would have responded.

Kind of an interesting thing to say when you upset Opi with this exchange:

I'm not the one demanding information from her.

And why are you speaking as to how Opi feels, since you're not her?

I don't read the words "I am upset" anywhere in this post.

co-sign.....

Liar.

Many Christians believe in forced conversion, particular the earlier missionary efforts. Witnessing and spreading the word can be very forceful and frightening depending on who the person witnessing is and who the person being witnessed to feels about it.

Either case, there's nothing "peaceful" about figurative warfare. But it doesn't make it any less figurative.

It's pretty clear that no one is a spokesperson for the religion or its doctrine.

With that said, there are probably just fewer GC Muslims than there are GC Christians who post regularly. This difference in numbers changes the odds/probability of such questions being answered. It isn't necessarily about "having more sense than that" (:rolleyes:) because I know at least a couple GC Muslims who do answer such questions on message boards whenever they have time on their hands and/or feel like being bothered with educating people.

Wow - she totally blew you out, my friend.

Opi and I don't exactly get along, but she not only made your "quotations" look idiotic, but addressed all of your concerns completely. Read -> comprehend -> post?

I have not seen a Christian behead anyone to force them to convert. Have you?

You're right.. I lied about being a law reporter. I've never been in broadcasting.. and I'm actually an astronaut!

Again, weirdness I can't explain.

Well then go to the moon instead of asking Muslims to explain stuff.

No, they just burned them alive instead. So much better!

Nancy Grace is a "law reporter" as well, but that doesn't mean she's not a bumbling idiot.

When it was revealed that Catholic priests had been molesting children for years and years, many Catholics were upset about it, and demanded an apology. When radical Muslims were blowing up airplanes or doing other inappropriate things, few Muslims spoke up. Why is that?

Blueangel,

you didn't "ask" you persisted to the point of annoyance. And I did answer your question. Care to comment?

huh? My response was to your post that said If muslims were getting attacked, there would be media coverage. Who said anything about terror networks.

Defend my statements? Did I say something incorrect that I had to defend, or did you? And religion is major factor in this hijacking story:
a) the guy was a Christian convert
b) he wrote a note to the pope
c) he hijacked a plane because he didn't want "to serve in a muslim army"
d) The Turkish airline spokeman initially released a statement saying this guy was protesting the Pope's visit to Turkey. Based on what evidence, I have no idea.

have you read the article at all?

I was upset? Geez, why didn't I get this memo. No, this is GC. People disagree here all the time. You wouldnt last in my profession of choice if I got upset over a GC post.

You persisted to the point of annoyance.

I'm denying that I was upset by KDDani's post.

Please refrain from talking about me unless you are talking to ME. Thanks.

Again, I've answered your "concerns" and you didn't address them. Why? Where did you get those verses from?

Actually, what I'm noticing is how you've been responding to everyone except Opi the last day or so. Opi has "answered" your questions by explaining to you that your "quotes" were bogus and that you were therefore operating under an erroneous assumption all along. No response?

Yes.

We Christians really gotta stop blowing stuff up. Its getting out of hand.

fixed?

This really isn't that difficult a concept, guys - we're going in circles, everyone has skeletons in the closet. The question is whether the media handles Muslim skeletons in a different manner than Christian ones, not whether they're literally analogous.

It's not a pissing contest.

We're so perfect that even our hijacking attempts are cool. :cool:

Its because she likes to argue, and now that _Opi_ finally answered her questions, she has nothing to argue about anymore.

She's like a 5 year old who wants her way, but isn't gonna get it.

I cannot even begin to describe how terrible this analogy is. You've listed isolated events, some of which don't even participate in violence (the huge majority of white supremacy groups). You're comparing these to large and well funded organizations who do plan and carry out attacks on innocent people. The Oklahoma City Bombing had nothing to do with the people they were attacking. I believe they've even claimed that they had no real intention of harming the victims. The crime was intended to be against the government. How is that comparable to attacks which target civilians solely because of their faith or belief? Its not. As for the hijackings, I guess a couple guys not threatening any passengers and not harming anyone is comparable to cutting the throats of pilots and passengers and proceeding to fly planes into buildings filled with people. My bad.

The point is not that Muslims are more violent than Christians, although at this point in time you could make a very good case that they are. The reason Islam is portrayed as violent is because of the actions people take in the name of the faith. Are most Muslims violent? Almost certainly not. Are acts of violence in the name of Islam isolated or rare? No.

Again, missed my whole point - read the part about "not being literally analogous", which should indicate that I agree with quite a bit of the above - and try to relate your feeling to whether media coverage is biased. You're wasting some good rants here, when you could be addressing the topic.

BlueAngel has done a good job of derailing this thread, though.

And having been a "law reporter" myself, I can say that it in no way correlates to significant legal knowledge, let alone knowledge to critique the methods of attorneys.

LOL @ Nancy Grace. She's an example of "Those who can, do. Those who can't, report, if by "report" we mean go on endless biased rants about evil, evil defendants."

That said, I have no idea what law reporters have to do with this thread.

blueangel brought up her status as a "law reporter" to seem more credible.

This is my favorite law reporter. What's yours?

OH.... so that was YOU who left their badge on the moon? Silly me!

I was totally trying to make fun of her for doing that. I was very subtle because I didn't want to get reported, you know, like you'd get reported in second grade.

I really like the Pacific Reporter.

I call Bullsh*t!

I'm sorry did I miss something? Cause I do remember all of the Canadian Muslim orgs. condemning 9/11... in fact the Star ran the page of Imam's names condemning it. Further after the London bombing it was a nearby Mosque that organized a "safe area" for first response counselling and arranged for car transport for victims from the scene -> followed of course by the wide denouncements the next day and through-out the week. What kind or level of a denouncement were you expecting, or what would be "acceptable" condemnation?

Opi hasn't denied that there are violent elements that pervert faith to further the hateful agenda...

But as for Christian cells organized against non-Christians -> hell yeah... just take a gander through the security watch-lists of militia groups, Christian apocalyptic sects, those "good'ol" boys the KKK (you know the ones that preached violence against non-whites, Catholics, and Jews), the various "White Church" groups associated with Aryan Nation, and of course any church associated with Ian Paisley (you know giving finacial aid to the UVF, to help stamp out the Catholic vermin).

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Does that contain decisions from the evil Ninth Circuit? ;)

The 9th circuit, ha.

I'll be responding.. just doing more reading. I'm checking her allegations. Astronauts do that, you know! :)

Ok why don't we just stop lying here. You're not researching to check her allegations, you're researching to find your newest lie to use so that you look like your posts are legit.

You are just

Instead of launching personal attacks, why don't you join in on the discussion regarding Muslims in the media?

So only being organized in the west means that it's okay? :rolleyes:

No one said it was OK. Please do not put words in my mouth.

I am saying that there is no group which even comes close to the enormous scope of the Islamic terrorists.