Hostage situation in Russia

[Rudey]

Right now this issue is about Islam. There are Arab fighters in Chechnya because of Islam.

-Rudey

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?