"Iranian students chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" outside the French embassy in Tehran in protest at the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to publish catroons of the Prophet Mohammad, days after widespread protests--some deadly--against a film made in the United States."
--Robin Pomeroy, "From Nigeria to Athens, Muslim Protests Rumble On," Reuters 9/24/12
Does anyone else look at this and say, maybe this is why people look at Islamists and cringe or worry about the intentions of Islamists in the pursuit of the spread of Islam in the world? Sure that idiotic film (hey I watched a 13 minute trailer--the film is just bad, regardless of the intended message) was made in California. But, I did not make the film, nor did the elected government of the United States. The cartoons were published in a European magazine--what do the people and state of Israel have to do with this publication?
Christianity and Judaism neither one teach violence in the spread of belief. But, Islam does (I have also read the Koran). Reasonableness is apparently lacking on the part of the Islamists, who equate every diminuation of their belief with an attack against all of Islam by the United States and Israel. Does this mean that I would be in the right to protest against the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Israel whenever a musical is made that depicts Jesus Christ as homosexual or sexually involved with Mary Magdelene? Oh wait, Christianity teaches love of enemy and acceptance of the authority of state in non-theological matters (As far as I can tell after also reading the Bible). Again, the greater point here is the lack of reasonableness, not the theological debate of the ages, but it seems that one faith leads to a lack of reasonableness.
--Robin Pomeroy, "From Nigeria to Athens, Muslim Protests Rumble On," Reuters 9/24/12
Does anyone else look at this and say, maybe this is why people look at Islamists and cringe or worry about the intentions of Islamists in the pursuit of the spread of Islam in the world? Sure that idiotic film (hey I watched a 13 minute trailer--the film is just bad, regardless of the intended message) was made in California. But, I did not make the film, nor did the elected government of the United States. The cartoons were published in a European magazine--what do the people and state of Israel have to do with this publication?
Christianity and Judaism neither one teach violence in the spread of belief. But, Islam does (I have also read the Koran). Reasonableness is apparently lacking on the part of the Islamists, who equate every diminuation of their belief with an attack against all of Islam by the United States and Israel. Does this mean that I would be in the right to protest against the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Israel whenever a musical is made that depicts Jesus Christ as homosexual or sexually involved with Mary Magdelene? Oh wait, Christianity teaches love of enemy and acceptance of the authority of state in non-theological matters (As far as I can tell after also reading the Bible). Again, the greater point here is the lack of reasonableness, not the theological debate of the ages, but it seems that one faith leads to a lack of reasonableness.
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