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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
There is a very large difference between, on the one hand, believing in some sort of guilt by association due to belonging to the same religion, and, on the other hand, believing religious leaders should condemn the actions of those who perpetrated the crime. I agree that religious leaders need to condemn the actions of these people. However, I do not, for a single moment, believe people completely unrelated to the actions should apologize simply because they happen to belong to the same religion. The latter was what I thought Rerun was asking for, but he clarified that he was not.
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I disagree. As the violence was religiously motivated, I believe it is precisely those who are leaders within the religion who need to live up to their position and take the lead and demonstrate to those who are perpetrating the violence the proper way to act.
As people have pointed out, any person who'd looked at the recent history of Islam could have predicted a huge, violent response to the film. That means there is something
wrong inside the broader Islamic community and it is up to Islamic leaders and moderate muslims to place pressure on their brethren to change.