Text 22699, 60 rader
Skriven 2006-09-25 19:09:24 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 22688 av VERN HUMPHREY (1:123/140)
Ärende: Muslems
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:08:00 -0400
"VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT" <1:123/140> wrote:

 VH>>> There is a double standard -- Muslims who commit vicious acts
 VH>>> represent ALL Muslims.

 EH>> When leading Muslims fail to condemn those vicious acts it is
 EH>> difficult to make the distinction. In fact, most Imams make
 EH>> excuses for the vicious acts.

 VH> How many German Christian priests and ministers condenmed Hitler?

Christians world wide condemned Hitler. Muslims world wide now condemn
the pope.

 EH>> When the Muslim world calls for the conversion or death of the Pope
 EH>> simply because he said something they don't like, it's hard to
 EH>> make a distinction between the "good" Muslims and the bad ones.

 VH> Again, the Germans were united behind Hitler -- and they were all at
 VH> least nominally Christian.

Irrelevant. Christians in Germany are NOT the Christian world. Plus,
many didn't say anything for fear of retribution.

 VH>>> But a Christian who commits even more vicious
 VH>>> acts (like Hitler, for example) isn't REALLY a Christian.

 EH>> Hitler may have grown up in a Christian family, but he rejected
 EH>> Christianity in favor of paganism. Most Christian leaders rejected
 EH>> Hitler's actions and openly criticized his vicious acts.

 VH> That's the double standard -- we deny that Christians who do evil are
 VH> "real Christians" but refuse that excuse to Muslims.

"We" do? I haven't found that to be true. Most people, when talking
about the current bunch of terrorists, refer to only those who
perpetrate the terror. The rest of Islam only gets included when they
follow blindly along in protesting some insulting comment by a
non-Muslim.

You don't see Christians protesting violently about some trivial
insult. You don't see Christians calling for the conversion or murder
of some non-Christian who dares say something critical of Christianity.

When Islam makes into the 21st century and acts, as a whole, like the
tolerant and peaceful religion they claim to be, get back to me about
those double standards.

Ed

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