Caught in the middle of religious zealots

[boston bean]

One religious zealot makes an offensive movie, other religious islamic zealots kill people over it.

Makes me sick. Which is more offensive? I surmise the killing over it, is. But both come from the same place. Hatred of others over religious beliefs.

And the control of others to make them believe as you do.

It's a sick vicious cycle.

edited to remove christian from the OP. I do think (from reports) however that Terry Jones, from the reporting, was involved, and he is a Christian.

[cali]

1. It wasn't make by a Christian.

It was made by an Israeli-American Jew.

[boston bean]

3. I thought Terry Jones was involved?? nt

[Zax2me]

2. That's it.....quickly stir Christians into the brew...

Never waste a good Jihad when you can thrown Christians into the same brew.

[boston bean]

5. not my intent.

However, Terry Jones was involved with this effort in some way according to reports. Is he not a christian. Are there not many christian zealots in the world?

[pinboy3niner]

7. Not just Jones

Others promoted it, too:

Protesters condemned a video clip that depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a series of humiliating scenes. A controversial Cairo television host, Sheikh Khaled Abdallah, aired clips from the video on an Islamic-focused television station on Saturday, and the same video clips were posted to YouTube on Monday.


Organizers at the embassy protest told the Associated Press that they’d begun planning the protest last week when a controversial Egyptian Christian activist who lives in the United States, Morris Sadek, started promoting Bacile’s film. ....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/egyptian-protesters-scale-wall-of-us-embassy-in-cairo-pull-down-american-flag/2012/09/11/59312502-fc41-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html

[CJCRANE]

4. Opposing groups of religious fundamentalists feed off each other.

Hateful acts by each side just make the other side stronger. They're two sides of the same coin.

[boston bean]

6. That was my point. Thank you for stating it succinctly.

[OKNancy]

8. Sam Bacile is the name that is being reported by AP

The person who has the website is... Morris Sadek, " an Egyptian-born Christian in the US known for his anti-Islam views."



http://www.npr.org/2012/09/12/160989062/american-killed-in-libya-protest-over-film

[hobbit709]

9. Scratch any religious zealot of any religion and underneath they are all the same.

you can't tell them apart in their views on women, gays, anyone not of their particular brand or anything else.

[Archae]

10. And people wonder why I consider *ALL* religion to be bullshit?

[malokvale77]

11. Thanks for posting that.

My pet peeve, is when somebody tries to use "The Bible says" as proof of something. Might as well quote from Grimm's Fairy Tales. It makes as much sense, if not more.