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Originally Posted by Kevin
A big difference between Muslim and Western culture is that their Pat Robertsons, etc. are in important governmental and judicial positions.
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Thats the thing though, you are seizing on the exceptions to prove a point - much like the Al Queda propaganda does when it seizes on exceptions in "Western" culture to construct an argument.
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Pat Robertson tried to run and was laughed off the stage.
Your comparisons don't really hold up.
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... and yet the administration is still rife with Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and President has no problem visiting a campus that celebrated Pope John Paul II's death on - the fact of the matter is that both the Al Queda tools and the "Christian" Right demagogues both use the same methodology in painting an image of "the faith and believers" being under siege by unbelievers and the forces of secularism, the only difference is in the application of "defense" given the respective parties geo-political and socio-economic standings on the global stage.
I have no doubt that if the respective political and economic positions where reversed that the "Christian" Right would happily engage in a 'Holy War' or Crusade of their own... and to some extent elements have been both officially and unofficially.
The only difference for us in seeing things is of course perspective, we can see and understand the nuances of the different ideologies that operate under the umbrella of "Christianity" and identify motivations and pressures other than pure religion, whereas many can't seem to do that when it comes to Islam - they only picture a select extremist and stereotypical Islam as being representative of the whole, when it is actually the exception by far.
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