Quote:
Originally posted by Rudey
On Islam:
However, how am I attacking Islam by posting a truth or a fact? Perhaps what bothers you is that I am able to find more "truths and facts" on Islam to post than I am on other religions. But what is that a function of? Perhaps it's my interest in the middle east. Maybe, more than likely, it's a function of the fact that every day there is more and more news about Muslims and Arabs that either support or partake in awful acts of violence. There is very little in the news about priests and molestations these days but there sure as heck was news when Muslim terrorists attacked Bali. If there were no news, I'd have little to comment on the topic I suppose.
And most people are tired of the "Islam is a religion of peace" or the "these guys are wrong" speech. No major organized religion is a religion of peace. None. Mohammed himself fought and killed. And, again, it seems that there is a very large portion of the Muslim world that interprets the Qu'ran differently from you with the guidance of Muslim leaders (financed through US ally Saudi Arabia) and this is something that can't be ignored. Why do I see large protests against the war in Iraq in Muslim countries but no protests against the fact that Sunni Muslims are massacring Shite Muslims? Perhaps someone will now say "Islam is a religion of peace" and we can forget that.
I don't know how to fix things, but neither denial nor empty words will ever help.
-Rudey
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I think that is a rather weak arguement - basically because there is just as much religous related/motivated violence out there in the news, but you seem to highlight really only those stories that feature Islam.
For example if you log onto Netscape today you can see a story about a Catholic priest commiting sucide after killing two people at a funeral home... or how about the sectarian violence that flared up last month in Ireland? The thing is Islam is as much a religion of peace as Christianity is - radicals and hatemongers can hide within the folds of any religion really, it just important that you realize that the vocal/active minority does not always represent the majority or the true faith.
The question is of course is your fixation on the "negative" stories featuring Islam a product of the us & them or the easy identification of Muslims as the "other" - or is there another not so sub-consious reason?