TheRealMafoo said:
No. I am saying people want us to think it was a disconnected group of crazies who don't have the same drive and determination as thousands of other Muslims. That there is some other reason they did it... there mother didn't love them enough, or it's just retaliation for a past war. They will not say it's because when you radicalize that religion, people conduct themselves worse then when you radicalize other religions. |
But see there you go, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. The Muslims going apeshit over the Koran bonfire are NOT all connected to terrorists. It's not a coherent group or even necessarily shared philosophy like talking about "Radical Islam" may imply. (Thus, the pastor's actions stirred up people without any known relation to the ones you think he's trying to alert us to. Unless you want him to "alert" us to them by provoking actual attacks from the ones who ARE terrorists.)
I mean, if I ask "is Radical Christianity one of the factors for abortion bombings", I think people would know that it doesn't follow that all the fundamentalists who get worked up about abortion can be associated with that. I'm not so sure when people talk about "Radical Islam".
Also, I just noticed the bolded. Just because in this time period Islam has a worse problem with this doesn't mean the religion is inherently more susceptible to violent extremist thought, or capable of worse extremism than others. I mean, sure, Christianity looks good for religious tolerance now, but go back a hundred years and it doesn't look so good; go back 300 and they're at each others' throats and standing on everyone else's necks; go back 700-1000 and Muslim nations are the more diverse & tolerant ones, I believe.
Probably the only reason Crusaders didn't use suicide bombs is lack of technology. I mean, yes Christianity forbids suicide, but really your death is just a side effect of using the bomb to kill other people. Feel free to correct me, but I doubt Christian theologians reckon Samson went straight to hell for committing suicide when he brought the building down on top of himself.
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