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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I know a lot of people who condemn Jerry Falwell et al just on basic principle, and that might be why we don't hear specific condemnation of what they say about Islam. If they advocated Christians to use suicide missions to kill Muslims in terrorist attacks so that they could become Christian martyrs and win eternal reward, I suspect we'd hear some specific renunciations though, so I'm not sure the issue for Muslims is simply that they find the extremist already pathetic enough.
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What makes you think that many Muslims don't condemn Al Queda on basic principle as well, and that there really isn't a point repeatedly condemning the extremists every time one of these assholes issues a statement or commits some new atrocity? Something like "Extremist Fatigue"...
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Your use of Falwell is interesting. As nuts as he is, consider his response to the Hustler parody and imagine a similarly extremist Muslim's response. Somehow I don't think an extremist Muslim cleric takes the case up in civil court, but maybe suggesting incest with his mother wouldn't fire him up as much as cartoons of Muhammad.
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True - but there is also cultural as well as religious context is there not? Consider Falwell's reactions to some "art" depicting Jesus in homosexual acts... or homosexuality in general - each culture and specific "religious" ideology has their triggers and soft spots; and their own specific blind spots in which they can commit open hypocrisies "for the greater good" (SBC + BJU financial and theological support for the UVF for example).
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