re: #698 darthstar

But they do. Most of the Muslim world abhors extremists, terrorism, jihad, etc. It’s just a few charismatic radicals an their influence on what appears to be a growing number of young men.

Look at the street protests in Iran, for example. Those people don’t hate America. They hate their isolationist government. Most Iraqis, despite our invasion and seven year occupation, don’t actually hate us, nor do they love terrorism (especially since they seem to be the targets of much of it).

Listen to some of our “leaders” when asked about religious and teabagger extremists here in the US…”People are upset right now.” They’re not condemning people like Roeder…they’re making excuses for them.

I disagree, but only on the margins. I’m happy to go far to meet you in the middle…there is no reason to make any excuse for the Roeders, no reason at all. I’d bet you a considerable sum that you’d have a terrible time finding a church on Sunday morning that had any kind words for a man of that ilk.

I doubt you’d want to make the same bet of a mosque…far too many terrorists are learning their religion from the Center of it all in Saudi Arabia.