[Moderator's Note: We have a pretty good historical record of Christians "herding" Jews into synagogues and and burning them alive. They likely did the same to Muslims. The Christians were very good with carnage and as examples of humanity it is hard to find their equals - even among Muslims. --Hank]
Are they? I challenge the view that we must paint all religions with the same brush. Even in the Crusades, the Christians did not round up their children, herd them into schools with the express teachings that "THESE PEOPLE" must be the targets of a holy-war, and you must take their lives by any means necessary (I realize that the language used there may be questioned by some). Almost ALL of the incidents of other religions were isolated events. No other religion has a systematic method of recruiting and training people to strap on bombs, go to the enemy, and SPECIFICALLY target the civilians of that "Enemy" (Usually an enemy of the imagination as well). If you think that the USA, Isreal, or any other country has generals who issue orders to their troops to either ignore or specifically target civilians... Then I think that there is some obfuscation of facts going on. Neither Christian, Jew, Buhddist, Hindu, or other religion has as part of its tenets that its apostates must be killed. No other religion on earth has decalred a Holy war on the rest of the world. The crusades were but an unfortunate event, that were recognized by most sane people (later) as being the wrong course of action. How long will it take to recognize that the course of action of Jihadis is wrong? It is wrong to not point out an exception when it is seen, and try to lump all religions into the same narrow grouping. Any rational person has the duty to point out extremism and delusion where he/she sees it. Matthew Bailey --- In [email protected], "sight_sunnykhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Donnella, > > My ideas also go in unison with your language, where its clear that > terrorism is not an Islamic monopoly but almost every community is > providing their own share. Grave thing is that the the so called Islamic > version is well in front of vision, the reasons whatever it be. So the > treatment is required for all, certainly a tedious and time consuming > one. > > And about Niyas, rather than banning voices, situations are to be > brought where we can understand how different people think, how would > they react to different things so that the remedies be sought > accordingly. Certainly Niyas' way doesn't help a healthy discussion, but > one should not forget that unless the root cause is identified the > ultimate solution is a tough task. > > Regards. > --- In [email protected], donnella whitacre <screenqwen1@> > wrote: > > > > as hank has said they condemn themselves , you get a good look at what > they really think and i think it is very eye opening. they are nice for > awhile then they start the superior and i know what you don't know stuff > . as if none of use watches the news or evey reads. i like it > > > > > > Donna maxine_winters@ wrote: This has gone beyond just amusement > now! Niyas should be banned for > > spreading hatred. > >
