re: Religious fanaticism, Islam and the IRA

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difference with Islam is that a large portion of its followers are either supportive or completely ambivalent when it comes to violence against civilians in the name of their religion.

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I've got some Muslim friends from a relatively peaceful Middle Eastern nation, and I can attest to this. I get along with them well, but I have been surprised at some of their views towards violence. Such as more than a few of them think that homosexuals should die. One of them told me that if his son was gay, he would give him 1 chance to straighten up. He said if his son refused, he would take him out into the desert and shoot him.

The only violence that even seems to bother them is that of the Jews' hands in Gaza and when they talk about the US's involvement in the ME. They say that the US decimates entire towns full of women and children and that we just don't ever hear about it because we're constantly coddled by the media.