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NYC_SKP

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6. The problem is there, and getting worse.

Reply to backwoodsbob (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2015, 06:53 PM

Jan 2015

And we can all agree that the violence isn't limited to any ONE religion.

Arabs and Jews and Christians and Muslims, and more, all have extremist members who use their religion to justify their horrific acts.

Jews against Palestinian settlers, Christian fundies against abortion clinics, Islamic bombers; none really representative of the vast majority of their adherents.

What's frightening to me today, through the lens of someone who has friends of all faiths and no faiths, is this:

I'm frightened by the EASE with which we condemn Islamic-associated acts of violence while looking the other way and ignoring anti-Islamic acts of bigotry.

The West is as guilty of ethnocentrism as any other culture, I suppose.

When the ACLU produced the video, "Fight Hate Speech with More Speech", they didn't mean "with more Hate Speech".

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so can we finally admit there is a problem between religions that is getting scary? [View all] backwoodsbob Jan 2015 OP

We can't ignore the economic factors too. Being in a war zone foments extremism. arcane1 Jan 2015 #1

I don't see this as between religions as much as between religions and everyone else not of djean111 Jan 2015 #2

So, doesn't this ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #3

Man, people have been racking their brains about this very issue for thousands of years... SomethingFishy Jan 2015 #4

It don't think even alien invasion could unite us Fumesucker Jan 2015 #10

Indeed, if the aliens were at all politically astute they could have half of us killing the other SomethingFishy Jan 2015 #11

Fundamentalism is the problem, not "problem between religions". uppityperson Jan 2015 #5

"Fundamentalism is the problem" handmade34 Jan 2015 #7

The problem is there, and getting worse. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #6

they probably did mean exactly that, i didn't watch the video. it might be complicated.... Adam051188 Jan 2015 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Jan 2015 #8

We need less religion. TransitJohn Jan 2015 #12

The absence of religion doesn't make the worst of humanity any less bloody minded as Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #16

LOL, that old canard. TransitJohn Jan 2015 #17

I didn't say atheism. I said the absence of religion. The absence of religion does not equal the Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #20

99% of the victims of ISIS and other Islamic extremists are other Muslims. Calista241 Jan 2015 #13

If it wasn't religion, terrorists would use some other excuse. Jamastiene Jan 2015 #14

+1 exactly. n/t FSogol Jan 2015 #15

Truth. Dr. Strange Jan 2015 #18

religion is just a tool for the same old power games. big and small-power games. NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #19

Bingo. The Al Aqsa Martyr's brigade is majority Christian Recursion Jan 2015 #22

we seem to think there is some golden answer that will make all this go away. liberal_at_heart Jan 2015 #21

Define peace-loving - far more than 1% support the death penalty for blasphemers. Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2015 #23

We can't even admit that guns are a problem in this country. 6000eliot Jan 2015 #24