I was taught that Catholics were evil, pure evil, Italians were ignorant, blacks were inferior and the French were terrible people, in my home. I was grounded for walking to school with a black neighbour. My church’s founding documents call the Pope the Antichrist.
My experience in the world showed me that none of what I was being told was true. But clearly a lot of people in the US are still teaching their children that black people are inferior, because I read that every day on this board.
80 million Muslims around the world and only a handful are spreading hate and violence. I find your take away on Muslims to ring very false.
Yep- the bigots want us to fear and hate all Muslims- and that is why they- and I include the OP- equate Islam to Islamist terrorism- Muslims to Islamist terrorists.
Why they want to fight with all Muslims- rather than fight the terrorists- is the question.
Why? There is a particularly virulent strain of Christianity afoot in the U.S. The "end times," "if we have a war with Muslims, Jesus will come back" types, who are just carrying on the old rivalries among the Abrahamic from medieval times and want to use the U.S. military as a proxy "Christian" army to make their wishes come true. They are so foolish that they cannot accept the fact that most of the people being killed by the radical Islamist groups are Muslim. My theory is that the corporate types, eyeing oil and profits, see these rubes as easy to manipulate for their own purposes.
nice discussion but it has nothing to do with recent mass shootings unless you want to stretch sophistry to the point
of obscenity