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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
But there is also a clear trend by progressives to deny that actions explicitly stated to be motivated by doctrines in Islam are actually motivated by them. Which is why the President of the USA feels that in order to not offend people he needs to say that suicide bombings have nothing to do with Islam.
In other words, there seems to be a safe haven for Islam, from the exact sort of criticism you're talking about here for Christianity among a ton of progressives. It's characterized by these guys as "racist", which is why I wasn't in a hurry to accept your earlier characterization of this issue. Including guys who get on CNN to talk about it:
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I think that religious beliefs help determine the kinds of actions including the kind of violence that is taken when the motivation is there to act in that way (which is clearly is in the Middle east), but I don't think it provides much of a motivation in and of itself.