Islam Delenda Est
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...the Inquisition, etc...? The fact that Christians committed evil deeds in the name of their religion is immaterial. You'll note the key word is "committed". Past tense. They're not doing so today and haven't for centuries.
Moslem terrorists are killing in the name of Islam daily TODAY. Events of centuries and millenia ago have no bearing on the situation on the ground in AD 2011.
Western kids and Moslem kids both learn about the Crusades in school. The difference is that ours study them in World History, whereas theirs apparently learn about them in Current Events.
The handful who DO manage to stay on topic tend to invoke Timothy McVeigh, a self-professed agnostic whose act had nothing whatsoever to do with religion.
About the closest any of them come to making a valid point are the ones who talk about anti-abortion violence. But even in those cases, they seem to gloss over the fact that there have been precisely nine deaths attributed to anti-abortion violence in the US. That's nine. Not 90. Not 900. Not 9000. Nine. While that's still nine too many, that figure pales into statistical insignificance when viewed alongside the numbers murdered in the name of Islam.
briar: I'm not saying we shouldn't learn history. I'm saying it's utterly ridiculous to attempt to deflect blame from people committing acts of terrorism in the name of their religion today because adherents of a different religion did something 1000 years ago.
chris: Show me a 130 year old Indian and I'll buy him a beer.
last paladin: I'm not ignoring anything. If Christians were to act that way today, I would be appalled. I don't care what they did a millenium ago because there's nothing anyone can do to change it. Moslems CAN stop killing people today. Therein lies the difference, apologist.
Moslem terrorists are killing in the name of Islam daily TODAY. Events of centuries and millenia ago have no bearing on the situation on the ground in AD 2011.
Western kids and Moslem kids both learn about the Crusades in school. The difference is that ours study them in World History, whereas theirs apparently learn about them in Current Events.
The handful who DO manage to stay on topic tend to invoke Timothy McVeigh, a self-professed agnostic whose act had nothing whatsoever to do with religion.
About the closest any of them come to making a valid point are the ones who talk about anti-abortion violence. But even in those cases, they seem to gloss over the fact that there have been precisely nine deaths attributed to anti-abortion violence in the US. That's nine. Not 90. Not 900. Not 9000. Nine. While that's still nine too many, that figure pales into statistical insignificance when viewed alongside the numbers murdered in the name of Islam.
briar: I'm not saying we shouldn't learn history. I'm saying it's utterly ridiculous to attempt to deflect blame from people committing acts of terrorism in the name of their religion today because adherents of a different religion did something 1000 years ago.
chris: Show me a 130 year old Indian and I'll buy him a beer.
last paladin: I'm not ignoring anything. If Christians were to act that way today, I would be appalled. I don't care what they did a millenium ago because there's nothing anyone can do to change it. Moslems CAN stop killing people today. Therein lies the difference, apologist.