re: Syria jihadist 'kills mother' after she asked him to leave IS

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There's no doubt that Islam is the religion most associated with despicable violence at this day and age..let's get that out of the way first so that some dingbat doesn't falsely assume I am sympathetic for Islamic radicals.

However, insinuating that this incident is reflective upon the religion as a whole is a bit disingenuous, don't you think?

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This would be true if this was a single or even isolated incident. But it's not. From mass shootings, suicide bombings, beheadings of children, turning women and even young girls into sex slaves, throwing homosexuals off tall buildings, burning prisoners, crucifying prisoners, and now cases of mass sexual assault of white women across Europe it's past time to call a spade a spade.

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I could dig up 20+ articles a day of horrendous acts committed by "christians" or people of other religions and those accounts wouldn't be representative of christianity either

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Let's see 'em.

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I could dig up 20+ articles a day of horrendous acts committed by "christians" or people of other religions and those accounts wouldn't be representative of christianity either

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You do that. And "acts committed by christians" is not the same as "acts committed in the name of christianity" as this and many others were certainly acts committed in the name of Islam.

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I could dig up 20+ articles a day of horrendous acts committed by "christians" or people of other religions

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Committed in the name of those religions?

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I could dig up 20+ articles a day of horrendous acts committed by "christians" or people of other religions and those accounts wouldn't be representative of christianity either

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That is a bit of a stretch right there - I suppose if you were to scrounge around you could find enough murders to fit your quota - but what you could not find is an organized effort to promulgate those crimes in support of any version of Christianity. You will not find these murders committed 'in the name of' any version of Christianity or any other religion.

What you will find are isolated incidences of murder committed for a variety of everyday reasons - reasons that have been around since humanity began.

NO = there is no comparison between the frequency of Islamic terrorism and the incidences of ordinary crime in any other country.

I agree with the first part of your post, but this conclusion of yours is pure apologism.

eta: well shite, I responded to a Mullet Flap post.

Deflect, deflect, deflect


There is a difference between a crime committed by a Christian and a crime committed in the name of Christianity.

I can't recall every hearing of a Christian having their mother killed because she asked him to leave the church

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I could dig up 20+ articles a day of horrendous acts committed by "christians" or people of other religions and those accounts wouldn't be representative of christianity either

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You are smarter than this. Christians, or almost any other religion, aren't committing these crimes under the guise of religion or some holy cause.

It's a pretty significant difference.

ETA: Never mind should have read on or been able to assume this would have already been covered by people with a functioning brain.

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