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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Why do I have to choose one or the other? I cheerfully denounce fundamentalist, conservative religion whenever I come across it. What I don't understand is why so many liberals who consider ultra conservative Christians their enemies hold their tongue when it comes to ultra conservative Muslims.
But surely the issue is that American fundamentalist Christians aren't stoning adulteresses to death, murdering politicians who stand up for Muslims, and setting off bombs in nightclubs and family parks. 95 per cent of the people killed in terrorist attacks in the last 20 years have been killed by jihadists. That matters.
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Where is this happening? I don't see anyone holding their tongues against ultra-conservative Muslim extremism. Including moderate Muslims. Which was the whole point of your initial post; that moderates are not denouncing these activities, when people in those communities are confirming that they, in fact, are.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The person who wrote this op-ed piece in the NY Times is likely wanted dead by hundreds of thousands of his countrymen. It will surprise nobody if he's murdered. If you or I or anyone else posted a column critical of fundamentalist Christianity in the NYT, do you think we'd be putting our lives at risk? If that were the case, Richard Dawkins would be dead 20 times over.
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Isn't the fact that this piece was written and published, and that the story it's telling happened, evidence that moderate Muslims are standing against the extremism, even at the risk of death or worse?