(December 6, 2015 at 9:53 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: What the HELL! Muslims own religious community (at least part) does not think they need to/should condemn terrorist acts committed in the name of Islam? That condemnation will give Muslims/Islam a bad reputation?
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ea4601441...-extremism
Quote: "A younger generation is especially impatient with the condemnations of Islamic extremism from Muslim groups after every attack. They argue that the statements merely reinforce false notions that Muslims are collectively responsible for the violence."
Quote:"At a Georgetown University event last month on anti-Muslim bias, speaker Linda Sarsour said she struggled with Muslims who take part in such news conferences. "It reinforces the fallacy that I have something in common with" the Islamic State group...........".
You do, it's called RELIGION. All religions need to step up and condemn any criminal acts (terror, murder, fraud, molestation, .........) committed in that religions name or by someone in that religious community. Yeah, you to xtians.
I agree with this completely. When someone goes around and starts killing people in the name of their ideology, those who share that person's ideology have a duty to stand together and condemn that person. Denounce the acts and make it very clear that it is not what we stand for. Maybe it will help prevent more people from that same ideology from thinking they too should do such heinous things.
When the attack at PP happened, the first thing I did was address it and condemn it on my social media, and with my Christian friends when the issue came up. They all agreed with me of course, but one of them used the excuse that he was just some deranged guy living in the woods without electricity, rambling incoherently while shooting at people who didn't even have anything to do with PP, and that it was done because he's crazy not because he's Christian. I say it doesn't matter if he was crazy. Nut case or not, he still killed 1 cop and 2 innocent civilians, supposedly due to his Christian stance against abortion, and we still have a duty to stand against it and denounce it every chance we get. Even if the person who did it was insane.
As for the few people on twitter who actually did support him (as reported by BuzzFeed), they should be arrested and interrogated. Zero tolerance for terrorist type talk like that.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
