re: #246 recklessprocess

Islam is a political ideology more than a religion.

If the KKK announced they were now a religion could they then preach how inferior blacks are? Do I hear a ‘No’? Then how do you give a pass to a group who preaches how inferior Jews are?

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That’s counter to my experience. We had a bunch of Moroccan Muslims living in my building and in the long run they were just another bunch of odd young guys living together. In fact it turned out that they were gay but I also used to see them praying from time to time out on their balcony.

We have another family here and they’re hard working people that keep to themselves and are rather cordial. There was a bunch of Muslim women that used to work at a Mervyn’s here and I always thought they were nice and sometimes even cool people.

There a national bookstore that I go to once in a while that seems to attract a lot of Muslim professionals and students at the neighboring Starbucks. Again, they are quiet and cordial people that don’t display anything other than peacefulness.

There are many more and they live side by side in peace with the rest of us. You cannot judge them and persecute because of the acts of Jihadists and other extremist in their midst anymore than you can judge or persecute other religious groups because of their extremist elements. The same illogical reasoning is also used against atheists when they are compared with former atheistic Communist regimes.