RE: US Muslims struggle with condemnation
December 6, 2015 at 11:11 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2015 at 11:12 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
I feel like I will get some backlash for my statements.
Let me make this clear. Is Islam ridiculous? Absolutely. Is religion ridiculous? Absolutely. But asking all muslims to apologize/condemn the actions of other muslims is like asking every church in america to apologize/condemn the actions of everything Christians have done. It's useless, distracting, and ineffective. It doesn't help us address the causes of extremism, it doesn't change the religious ideas of the accused or accuser, and it doesn't provide a reason for change.
It's just a vindictive instinct of "we're better that they are."
Let me make this clear. Is Islam ridiculous? Absolutely. Is religion ridiculous? Absolutely. But asking all muslims to apologize/condemn the actions of other muslims is like asking every church in america to apologize/condemn the actions of everything Christians have done. It's useless, distracting, and ineffective. It doesn't help us address the causes of extremism, it doesn't change the religious ideas of the accused or accuser, and it doesn't provide a reason for change.
It's just a vindictive instinct of "we're better that they are."
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
