2016-03-23, 10:57 AM
Justin Wrote:If you want to take a single video, with one room filled with people who would have obviously similar views, and project that onto an entire culture of 1.5billion people, that's on you. But don't try to construe it as factual evidence of how everyone else feels about the matter. I'm sure I could find many, MANY similar videos about Christians or any other religion and/or race. The narrative can be spun any way you want it to.
Their views are representative of the vast majority of Muslims in the West. If the same question were asked in any mosque in the US you would see a similar show of hands.
I think the only person you would ask who would respond differently would be the kind of muslim who does not attend a mosque, who does not pray 5 times a day, who consumes alcohol. But at that point are they really muslim?
VerrKol Wrote:Why did Christians start the Crusades with their (intermittently) friendly trading partners in the Middle East despite adhering to religion which preaches "love thy neighbor" as one of it's founding tenants? Why didn't other Christians stop the Popes which blessed such actions?
Because the Crusades were in response to muslim conquest. The Crusaders weren't ISIS, they were fighting ISIS. By the time the Crusades even started, muslim armies had conquered two-thirds of "christian" territories.