re: #493 keloyd

Is there a single Muslim who reads or contributes to this blog?

Certain people hatin on Islam today will look indistinguishable from our great-grandparents when they were hatin on the blacks. Do you get your Islam knowledge from non-Muslim websites exclusively? For the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, do you think Israeli sites tell you the whole story? Judging the whole by the actions of its fringe, shaky scholarship viz their religion, talking about them when there’s not a single representative of that group present, all this just might come back and bite us in the arse.

Also, putting all this blogging aside, we all know there is either no such thing as a deity, or the 3 Western religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all clearly state in their religious texts that they worship the same god. Anything beyond this clear fact is just bloggers blowing off steam.

Excuse me.
“Certain people” who don’t like those Muslims or the tenets of certain portions of the Islamic world that say the rest of us must be wiped off the face of the earth is actually a reasonable position to take, and you marginalize the plight of blacks in this country when you compare “our” greatgrandparents’ treatment of blacks to wariness about Islam.

Secondly, yes, I trust Israel a heckuva lot more than I trust the Islamic world, and for good reason, imo. Israel has not said it wants us wiped off the map. Islamists (note: that is NOT all Muslims, certainly) do want us wiped off the map.

Thirdly, I don’t know who this “our greatgrandparents” are, but they are not necessarily mine.