re: #472 Iron Fist

The Mythical Moderate Muslim doesn’t exist in any real capacity out there in the Mohammedan world. To the Mohammedans, there is no difference between the two.

What? A religious doctrine saying two things are the same and suddenly they are?

Check this out - I’m culturally Jewish but am an atheist. Nonetheless, according to the Jewish religion I’m as Jewish as Shmuli the Rabbi. But if Shmuli goes out to the middle of the West Bank and decapitates some poor Palestinian kid… am I tarred with that action too, just because I’m Jewish? Because the Jewish religion fails to distinguish between Moderates and Radicals?

This kind of fallacy is the same kind of thing that leads to the breeding of hate. Right here, I’m sitting with an Iranian Muslim fellow. He’s a Zionist despite praying a few times a day and outrightly rejecting jihad - the dude even forwards me articles of Islamic religious excess. He’s a moderate. Don’t tell me that he doesn’t exist.

Plus your whitewashing of Christianity at Islam’s expense ain’t exactly logical either. If you think Christianity doesn’t attract violent men, explain to me then how the Klan is run? How the Army of God is run?

What about Concerned Christians? Christian Identity? Christian Patriots? Aryan Nations? The Lambs of Christ?

None of those organisations practices the peaceful brand of Christianity that you do, yet they exist and they are Christians who use God/Jesus to recruit people to their cause. And they murder, rape and pillage in the name of Jesus sometimes and in the name of self-interest at other times.

No religion is pure. All have their problems, but declaring that a religion that does not admit to having moderates within it, actually has no moderates within it is an act of utter folly.