Originally Posted by
Scrawler
Originally Posted by
Cryptos
There is a lot of animosity toward the Muslim faith.
They have done a lot to earn it.
There's my point again. A group of violent dinks who claim connection to Islam have done a lot to earn it. The majority of Muslims have earned that animosity in exactly the same way the majority of western Christians earned the animosity of the people in the Middle East during the First Crusade: the actions of a relatively small group of extremely active and belligerent third sons of moneyed houses who were sticking swords in ALL the locals because they couldn't tell the difference between Turk, Jew, or Orthodox Christian, and in the main didn't much care about those differences because they were there to grab some "unclaimed" land. All of the above is why the ICRC uses a crescent rather than a cross certain areas; lingering hard feelings.
"They" and "Those people" are terms we have to be very careful about applying.
Bookmarks