Attributing a bunch of straw men to me doesn't actually add merit to anything you wrote here.
That's been the entire argument of all the christians in this thread. You guys try to hard to demonize all muslims for the actions of a few. You're trying to push an agenda, and you're just not doing it very well.
So I'll tone the statements down and see if you agree. This has been the synopsis so far:
- Islam is an inherently violent religion.
- Christianity is an inherently peaceful religion.
The argument for the first being that radical extremists represent all 1 billion muslims, and the argument for the second being "that 1,000 year period where christians killed everybody doesn't count."
Fact is, if you want to call Islam an inherently violent religion, which you've done, you have to call christianity one as well by the very same criteria.
The surest way to elicit some anti-Christian hate around here is to start a thread about Islam.
How sad that in a thread about a small minority of Christians being persecuted for their faith, how some fall all over themselves by way of joining them.
It's not the thread on Islam itself that elicits the attacks, it's the inevitable christian comments like:
Ah.....Islam.......ever the religion of peace!
More people have been killed in the name of christianity than islam throughout our history. For 1,000 years they had no restraints. I simply find it wildly hypocritical when christians, whose religious texts are near identical to the koran, try to make the point that islam is violent, and thus wrong, and that's why we should all jump on the jesus band wagon.
I wonder, though, if Christians in this country were to go on a rampage in Dearborn and torch the houses of innocent Muslims, would the reverse hold true?
If after that attack, muslims started proclaiming that this is divine evidence that christianity is an inherently violent religion, while islam is in fact the religion of peace, ignoring everything that's happened, ever. Then yes, I would jump on board to point out their hypocrisy as well.