re: #171 LudwigVanQuixote

Cretins like Spencer make it difficult to discuss the very real problems that exist within Islam.

Lefties have a tendency to draw false parallels between abandoned or antithetical practices in Christianity and Judaism from ages past, with very real modern practices of Islam today.

I am not going to attempt to paint all of Islam with one brush. To do so would be as ignorant as painting Irish Catholics with the same brush in all things as Russian Orthodox. However, to ignore the stoning, the misogyny, the murder of gays or the support of suicide bombing and Jihad in the “kill infidels” sense of the word, is just flabbergastingly wrong.

Yep - Islamic fundamentalists are dripping with misogyny and a hatred for all things secular. I detest them. But we shouldn’t characterise all of Islam as being represented by the goals of it’s most foaming at the mouth fundies any more than we should characterise all christians or Jews by their worst.

All bigots characterise entire groups by the opinions and actions of their worst individuals - and that is Spencers shtick down to a tee.