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Old 07-31-2009, 04:53 AM   #127
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn View Post
Islamic fundamentalists are in every country the religion of Islam has a foothold. It hardly an isolated group. There is no country in the world where as many as 5% of the Christian community supports actions such as Fred Phelps takes.
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Now obviously the fundamentalist Christian nutcases willing to die for the cause are outnumbered, but they are out there.
Okay, we are getting closer to my point slowly but surely.

What I was saying to ResAlien a page or two back was that I don't believe that having extremist fundamentalists quoting the most inflammatory quotes from scripture necessarily creates mass violence the likes of what we have seen. Just because there are a few lines like the ones he quoted in the Quran doesn't automatically dictate that there will always be the current amount of violence in the muslim world. I stand by my statement that most of the violence is geopolitical and not based on a few passages from the Quran.
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