Why is it that very religious Christians are typically treated with scorn by our media, and very religious Muslims have praise heaped upon them for their convictions?
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005
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I don't think that that's the case at all, it's just one way of manipulating the current situation. Right now we're tiptoeing around the culture of Islam (everyone is, even the President) because for some odd reason we keep engaging in warfare in countries dominated by Muslims.
People at this time are a little critical of extreme Christianity because they don't like it influencing politics, and it just as well shouldn't, except since there is a right-wing majority in the government at this time, it's going to seep through.
The question you should be asking is: why must we make religion such a relevant issue in a realm where it does not belong?
It's only relevant because the media and the extremist Muslims make it so. It would be nice if this could stay to the point of freeing people from opression, but both our media, and their extremists try to force it in to a religion shoebox, and that makes it worse.
Do you have an example? Personally I find both very scary - especially the ones that want a theocracy. On the other hand, Muslims aren't pushing for a theocracy *here*, so their threat is a little more remote.
Oh you mean the very Muslims that Bush is "liberating" in Iraq?
Actually plenty of Muslims here int he US are pushing for a theocracy here. I see stuff all the time about some professor calling for a jihad int eh US, or saying they need to start pushing for sharia law here. The stated goal of Muslim extremist in the Middle East is to take control of the governments there and make it all a theocracy. It's prety naive to think they would want to stop there, especially since they've tried before (Spain in the middle ages ring a bell?).
The majority of Muslims in Iraq seem to be relatively secular, and want a secular democracy. The extremists are, for the most part, coming from Syria, Algeria, or Saudi Arabia.
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