[QUOTE="Stavrogin_"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]Unless the action was religious motivation....I think it's disingenuous to tie it to religion. And one individual does not speak for a religion.LJS9502_basic
Would you then agree that one or several groups don't speak for a whole religion either, lets say islam, and don't represent islam as a whole?I don't believe I've ever blamed the entirety of Muslims for what some do so I'm not sure where that comes from. Are you Muslim? I'm a nihilist, but no i didn't say that you had blamed islam as a whole. I was just making a point about fundamentalism :)
Unless the action was religious motivation....I think it's disingenuous to tie it to religion. And one individual does not speak for a religion.LJS9502_basic
Would you then agree that one or several groups don't speak for a whole religion either, lets say islam, and don't represent islam as a whole?
I think if you have to go back 300 years then the religion in question shouldn't be condemned as violent.LJS9502_basic
I don't have to. I can talk about the Norway terrorist or the murder of George Tiller by a christian fundamentalist. Of course, i'm not attacking a religion as a whole here just a certain aspect. Those idiots represent christian fundamentalism not christianity, just as al quaeda and the taliban represent muslim fundamentalism not islam as a whole.
[QUOTE="wolverine4262"]Someone never read about the crusades or the Inquisition. The point is that religious extremism can occur anywhere.th3warr1or
300 years ago vs 10years ago. I don't think that makes the point less valid. Today we see less christian fundamentalists going wild because of the secular laws in most countries with a christian majority, not because those fundamentalists suddenly came to their senses. The countries with a muslim majority though, most of them at least, have religious laws and are governed by religious fanatics. Bottom line is, fundamentalism is fundamentalism, it does not make any different if it's muslim, christian, jewish etc etc.
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