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Originally posted by RACooper
Alright I hate to wade in, as I'm sure I'll draw flak from some, but I have to agree with _Opi_... there has been an overwhelming tendancy to equate terrorism with Islam, as if they are the sole perpertrators of horror.
Let us never forget that Christianity has inflicted some truely evil acts in the past century, and past decade for that matter, on others that don't fit their view of the world. Now to draw on past examples... let's see the KKK I believe uses Christianity as a cover for hatred and ignorance... but do the people involved represent Christians? Hell No! Alright how about a more recent example... hmm lets think about the former Yugoslavia for a moment... Serbs commited many horrible acts in the name of Religion and Nationalism, but people always seem to equate those acts with Nationalism or Ethnic tensions, not religion. Every religion has factions within that are so twisted in their fanatical devotion to their "beliefs", do these groups represent the religion though? No.... why should the actions of a few colour our beliefs about the whole?
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Did I say that Muslims were the ONLY source of terrorism?
-- No. In fact, I acknowledge the Crusades, the Inquisition, many acts of the IRA were perpetrated by members of my faith. I'm saying that their view of the religion and what was justified was wrong, but they were still of the same faith.
Ask any one in whose name Bin Ladin's men flew into the WTC. Yeah, I know they're dead. If they were alive, do you not think their answer would be "Allah"?
I don't think that anyone here is saying that ALL Muslims are terrorists and support it. No one said that, yet it seems to be the point you're arguing against.
I think our point (and I don't necessarily speak for anyone else) is that there seems to be a particular group within Islam who believes that terrorism is the way to solve the world's problems. Their religion is Jihad, murder and intimidation. A bastardization of Islam? Ask them, they will tell you no.
If you want to do a survey of the people that support the methods that terrorists use to achieve any end, how many of them do you think will be Christian? Buddhist? Jewish? I doubt there is any actual data on this, but I think we all know what the answer would be.