re: ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller confirmed dead by family

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Like you and many in this thread, which has been woefully hijacked from its original purpose, Eric Bolling misses the point entirely. The fact that the President compared the atrocities of ISIS to the atrocities of the Crusades shows that Islam and Christianity are similar; that Christians have perpetrated heinous acts in the name of their faith just as ISIS and other extremists have, which should show Christians that the acts of a few should not equate to the acts of the many; and provides hope that the Islam of today can become more like the Christianity of today. After all, if Christianity has a brutal past but came out from it to become a far more accepting religion, then so to can Islam.

That's not lumping Christians in with ISIS. It's not even insulting Christianity. It's providing a context in which to view ISIS now. We should always look at today through a lens of experience. This isn't to downplay the evils of ISIS, it is, at least in part, to show that faith is powerful and can be used to manipulate people into becoming monstrous. But that doesn't mean everyone of faith is monstrous. That doesn't mean that Christianity is an inherently violent religion. That doesn't mean that Islam is an inherently violent religion. To view the President's comments otherwise is to willfully blind yourself to reality.

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I understand President Obama's points just fine and I agree with his points to a certain extant. I still think its was the wrong time to make these observations. He is not a professor in a comparative religions classroom. He is the commander and chief. His citizens were slaughtered like cattle for the entire world to see. An ally's pilot was just burned alive and thousands more humans have been murdered and raped by ISIS. How about dropping the history lesson and tell the world how you plan on kicking ISIS's arse.