(February 25, 2022 at 6:37 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Yes, people have done a LOT of horrible shit in the name of Islam. And due to the nature of the text (let's face it, there's as much blatant contradiction in the Quran as there is in the Bible), it's also easy to find Muslims who not only disavow any and all of those bad things, but can probably find and cite some sura and verse about why what they did is against Allah's will. Maybe if there's some event so horrific that any and all moderates decide to abandon ship, but that hasn't happened yet for Islam.
And at no point have I ever said that it's unacceptable to own anything with a Confederate flag on it. The issue is what it means to display it in public and what it ends up saying about the person doing it.
Some event so horrible? Is 9/11 less horrible than Dylan Roof? Events change nothing whatsoever. This is a narrative that the media fed to you that you bought into for some reason, because you didn't want to be seen as a bad guy. If another 9/11 happens and I start saying that it's unacceptable for Muslims to own a Quran or to wear the crescent and star because of that new 9/11, that's not me making sense. That's me being a bigot and thinking emotionally rather than with reason, and you're using this exact same logic on the stars and bars. You're using the exact logic the white nationalists are using. How can you not see this? And how do you know that "all of the reasonable people" have abandoned the stars and bars? Because you've decided that if they keep it up, they are by definition unreasonable.
