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Originally Posted by SentToStud
No, I believe you are wrong. Nearly all Muslims practice and are here practicing restraint. However, the fraction of a percent of Muslms that does not is what makes news or, better said, is considered newsworthy by those who have newspapers and airtime advertising to sell.
Nearly all Muslim clerics and community leaders have indeed accused the Pope of displaying ignorance or bigotry. Arguably true.
Yet today, the Muslim Council of Great Britain welcomed and accepted the Pope's apology for his remarks.
You won't see this reported on Fox News nor will it see much airtime on CNN or the U.S. broadcast networks. That's just the way it is. BBC certainly had more balance to the story than the U.S. networks as I watched the news today.
When you say of Islam, "That is the only religion that you are not allowed to say anything bad about. If you say anything bad about their religion they want to kill you," that is lamentable and very wrong.
One observation I've made is that you rarely just see one comma. They usually come in pairs. And you rarely see intolerance without ignorance.
I say this not of you but of all of us.
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I'm not saying that most Muslims in the US are calling for violence. I'm not even saying that most Muslims overseas are. But you have to admit that there are a ton of Muslims in the streets in the Middle East calling for blood.
When Salman Rushdie wrote that satirical book about Islam, there was a bounty put on his head. I remember than even Cat Stevens said at the the time that the Koran clearly states that anyone who defames the prophet must die. There was a guy just recently in Afghanistan who was sentenced to death for converting to Christianity. I don't think you are free to criticize Islam in most countries in the Middle East.